Sociology of Culture

Comprehensive Exam Reading List

TOTAL UNITS: 169

I. Classical Perspectives on Culture [15 units]

Adorno, Theodor W. and Max Horkheimer. 2000. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass
Deception. Pp. 3-19 in The Consumer Society Reader, edited by Juliet Schor and Douglas
B. Holt. NY: The New Press. [1] [Note: Excerpt also available in The Cultural Studies
Reader. Ed. S. During]

Berger, Peter L. and Thomas Luckmann. [1966] 1991. The Social Construction of Reality: A
Treatise in the Sociology of Knowledge. New York: Penguin. Pp. 34-61. [1]

Durkheim, Emile. [1915] 1995. The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life. Translated by Karen
E. Fields. New York: Free Press. See especially: Introduction, pp. 1 - 18; Origins of
These Beliefs (Conclusion), pp. 207-241; The Negative Cult and Its Functions: the
Ascetic Rites, pp. 303-329; and Conclusion, pp. 418-448. [3].

Elias, Norbert. 2000. The Civilizing Process. 2nd ed. Translated by Edmund Jephcott. Malden,
MA: Blackwell. Part I (pp. 5-44) and Part II, Sections I-IV, (pp. 47-108). [1].

Gramsci, Antonio. 1990. "Culture and Ideological Hegemony." Pp. 47-54 in Culture and Society:
Contemporary Debates, edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander and Steven Seidman. Cambridge,
UK: Cambridge University Press. [1]

Mannheim, Karl. 1952. The Problem of Generations. Pp. 276-320 in Essays on the Sociology of
Knowledge, edited by Paul Kecskemeti. New York: Oxford University Press. [1]

Marx, Karl and Frederick Engels. 1978. The Marx-Engels Reader, 2nd edition, edited by Robert
C. Tucker. Theses on Feuerbach, pp. 143-145; The German Ideology, Part I, pp. 146-
200; "The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof" pp. (319-329). [1]

Parsons, Talcott. 1972. Culture and Social System Revisited. Social Science Quarterly
53(2):253-266. [1]

Simmel, Georg. 1957. "Fashion." American Journal of Sociology 62(6):541-558. [1]

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Simmel, Georg. 1997. Introduction to Philosophical Culture, The Concept of Culture, On
the Essence of Culture, Female Culture, The Concept and Tragedy of Culture, The
Conflict of Modern Culture, The Crisis of Culture, The Future of our Culture, and
The Change in Cultural Forms. Pp. 33-108 in Simmel on Culture: Selected Writings,
edited by David Frisby and Mike Featherstone. London: Sage. [1]

Veblen, Thorstein. [1899] 1979. Theory of the Leisure Class. New York: Penguin. Chapters 1 6,
pp. 1-101. [1]

Weber, Max. [1913] 1958. The Social Psychology of the World Religions. Pp. 267-301, in From
Max Weber: Essays in Sociology. Translated and edited by H. H. Gerth and C. Wright
Mills. New York: Oxford University Press. [1]

Weber, Max. 2010. The Distribution of Power within the Community: Classes, Stnde, Parties.
Translated by Dagmar Waters, Tony Waters, Elisabeth Hahnke, Maren Lippke, Eva
Ludwig-Glck, Daniel Mai, Nina Ritzi-Messner, Christina Veldhoen, and Lucas Fassnacht.
Journal of Classical Sociology 10(2):13752. [1]

Supplemental Readings

Kroeber, Alfred L. and Talcott Parsons. 1958. The Concepts of Culture and of Social System.
The American Sociological Review 23(1):5823. [1]

II. Defining and Conceptualizing Culture [12 units]

Alexander, Jeffrey C. and Philip Smith. 2001. The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology:
Elements of a Cultural Hermeneutics. Pp. 135-150 in The Handbook of Sociological
Theory, edited by Jonathan H. Turner. New York: Kluwer. [1] Available at:
http://ccs.yale.edu/strong-program

Friedland, Roger and John Mohr. 2004. "The Cultural Turn in American Sociology." Pp 168 in
Matters of Culture: Cultural Sociology in Practice, edited by Roger Friedland and John
Mohr. New York: Cambridge University Press. [1]

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. The Interpretation of Culture: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books.
Chapter 1, "Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture, pp. 3-30. [1]

Grindstaff, Laura. 2008. Culture and Popular Culture: A Case for Sociology. The ANNALS of the
American Academy of Political and Social Science 619(1):20622. [1]

Griswold, Wendy. 1992. The Sociology of Culture: Four Good Arguments (and One Bad One).
Acta Sociologica 35(4):32328. [1]

Roy, William G. and Timothy J. Dowd. 2010. What Is Sociological about Music? Annual Review
of Sociology 36(1):183203. [1]

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Sewell, William H. 1992. "A Theory of Structure: Duality, Agency, and Transformation."
American Journal of Sociology 98(1):1-29. [1]

Sewell, William H. 1999. The Concept(s) of Culture. Pp.35-61 in Beyond the Cultural Turn: New
Directions in the Study of Society and Culture, edited by Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn
Hunt. Berkeley: University of California Press. [1]

Small, Mario Luis, David J. Harding, and Michle Lamont. 2010. "Reconsidering Culture and
Poverty." The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 629(1):6-
27. [1]

Swidler, Ann. 1986. Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies. American Sociological Review
51(2):273-286. [1]

Swidler, Ann. 2001. Talk of Love: How Culture Matters. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Introduction, chapters 1-2, and conclusion (pp. 1-40; 181-213). [1]

Vaisey, Stephen. 2009. Motivation and Justification: A DualProcess Model of Culture in

Supplemental Readings

Douglas B. Downey. 2008. Black/White Differences in School Performance: The Oppositional

III. Methods and Measurement [10 units]

Biernacki, Richard. 2012. Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables.
New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters 1 and 4. [1]

Breiger, Ronald L. 2000. A Tool Kit for Practice Theory. Poetics 27(23):91115. [1]

Griswold, Wendy. 1987. "A Methodological Framework for the Sociology of Culture.
Sociological Methodology 17:135. [1]

Jepperson, Ronald L. and Ann Swidler. 1994. What Properties of Culture Should We Measure?
Poetics 22(4):35971. [1]

Lamont, Michle and Ann Swidler. 2014. Methodological Pluralism and the Possibilities and
Limits of Interviewing. Qualitative Sociology 37(2):153-171. [1]

Lieberson, Stanley and Eleanor O. Bell. 1992. Childrens First Names: An Empirical Study of
Social Taste. American Journal of Sociology 98(3):51154. [1]

Marsden, Peter V. and Joseph F. Swingle. 1994. Conceptualizing and Measuring Culture in
Surveys: Values, Strategies, and Symbols. Poetics 22(4):26989. [1]

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Mohr, John W. and Craig Rawlings. 2012. Four Ways to Measure Culture: Social Science,
Hermeneutics, and the Cultural Turn. Pp. 70-113 in The Oxford Handbook of Cultural
Sociology, edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Ronald Jacobs, and Philip Smith. New York:
Oxford University Press. [1]

Mohr, John W. 1998. Measuring Meaning Structures. Annual Review of Sociology 24(1):345-
370. [1]

Pugh, Allison. 2013. "What Good Are Interviews for Thinking About Culture? Demystifying
Interpretive Analysis. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 1(1):42-8. [1]

Supplemental Readings

Ghaziani, Amin. 2009. An Amorphous Mist? The Problem of Measurement in The Study of
Culture. Theory and Society 38(6)581612. [1]

Watkins, Susan Cotts and Ann Swidler. 2009. Hearsay Ethnography: Conversational Journals as
a Method for Studying Culture in Action. Poetics 37(2):16284. [1]

Weber, Klaus. 2005. A Toolkit for Analyzing Corporate Cultural Toolkits. Poetics 33(34):227
52. [1]

IV. CULTURAL CAPITAL [18 units]

Aschaffenburg, Karen and Ineke Maas. 1997. Cultural and Educational Careers: The Dynamics
of Social Reproduction. American Sociological Review 62(4):573-587. [1]

Bennett, Tony, Mike Savage, Elizabeth Silva, Alan Warde, Modesto Gayo-Cal, and David Wright.
2009. Culture, Class, Distinction. New York: Routledge. [5]

Bernstein, Basil. 1964. Elaborated and Restricted Codes: Their Social Origins and Some
Consequences. American Anthropologist 66(6):55-69. [1]

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1986. The Forms of Capital. Pp. 24158. in Handbook of Theory and
Research for the Sociology of Education, edited by John G. Richardson. New York:
Greenwood Press. [1]

Carter, Prudence L. 2003. Black Cultural Capital, Status Positioning, and School Conflicts for
Low-Income African American Youth. Social Problems 50(1):136-155. [1]

Dumais, Susan A. 2002. Cultural Capital, Gender, and School Success: The Role of Habitus.
Sociology of Education 75(1):4468. [1]

Erickson, Bonnie H. 1996. Culture, Class, and Connections. American Journal of Sociology
102(1):21751. [1]

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Holt, Douglas B. 1998. Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption? Journal of
Consumer Research 25(1):125. [1]

Kingston, Paul W. 2001. The Unfulfilled Promise of Cultural Capital Theory. Sociology of
Education 74:88-99. [1]

Lamont, Michle and Marcel Fournier, eds. 1992. Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries
and the Making of Inequality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Introduction, chapter
6 (D. Halle) and chapter 11 (J. Hall). [1]

Lamont, Michle. 2012. How Has Bourdieu Been Good to Think With? The Case of the United
States, Lizardo, Omar, Comment on Lamont, Mische, Ann, Response to Lamont and
Lizardo, and Lamont, Michle, Response to Lizardos and Misches Comments. In
Sociological Forum 27(1):228-254. [1]

Lareau, Annette. 2002a. Invisible Inequality: Social Class and Childrearing in Black Families and
White Families. American Sociological Review 67(5):74776. [1]

MacLeod, Jay. 1987. Aint No Makin It: Aspirations and Attainment in a Low-Income
Neighborhood. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Chapter 2, "Social Reproduction in
Theoretical Perspective," pp. 11-24. [1]

Rivera, Lauren A. 2012. Hiring as Cultural Matching: The Case of Elite Professional Service
Firms. American Sociological Review 77(6):9991022. [1]

Supplemental Readings

Erickson, Bonnie H. 2008. The Crisis in Culture and Inequality. Pp. 343-362 in Engaging Art:
The Next Great Transformation of Americas Cultural Life, edited by Steven J. Tepper and
Bill Ivey. New York: Routledge. [1]

Huppatz, Kate. 2009. Reworking Bourdieus Capital: Feminine and Female Capitals in the Field
of Paid Caring Work. Sociology 43(1): 45-66. [1]

Lareau, Annette. 2015. Cultural Knowledge and Social Inequality. American Sociological
Review 80(1):127. [1]

Warner, Catharine H. And Melissa A. Milkie. 2013. Cultivating Gendered Talents? The
Intersection of Race, Class, and Gender in the Concerted Cultivation of U.S. Elementary
Students. Advances in Gender Research 17:1-27. [1]

V. BOUNDARIES [13 units]

Bryson, Bethany. 1996. Anything But Heavy Metal: Symbolic Exclusion and Musical Dislikes.
American Sociological Review 61(5):884-899. [1]

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Dimaggio, Paul. 1982. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation
of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America. Media, Culture & Society
4(1):3350. [1]

Harkness, Geoff. 2012. True School: Situational Authenticity in Chicagos Hip-Hop

Johnston, Jose and Shyon Baumann. 2007. Democracy versus Distinction: A Study of
Omnivorousness in Gourmet Food Writing. American Journal of Sociology 113(1):165-
204. [1]

Lamont, Michle and Virg Molnr. 2002. The Study of Boundaries in the Social Sciences.
Annual Review of Sociology 28:167-195. [1]

Lamont, Michle. 1992. Money, Morals, and Manners: The Culture of the French and the
American UpperMiddle Class. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [5]

Ollivier, Michle. 1997. Measuring Symbolic Boundaries among Artists. Poetics 24(5):299
328. [1]

Pugh, Allison J. 2011. Distinction, Boundaries or Bridges?: Children, Inequality and the Uses of
Consumer Culture. Poetics 39(1):118. [1]

Wimmer, Andreas. 2008. The Making and Unmaking of Ethnic Boundaries: A Multilevel Process
Theory. American Journal of Sociology 113(4):9701022. [1]

Supplemental Readings

Coskuner-Balli, Gokcen and Craig J. Thompson. 2013. The Status Costs of Subordinate Cultural
Capital: At-Home Fathers Collective Pursuit of Cultural Legitimacy through Capitalizing
Consumption Practices. Journal of Consumer Research 40(1):19-41. [1]

Kusenbach, Margarethe. 2009. Salvaging Decency: Mobile Home Residents Strategies of

Ollivier, Michle. 2000. Too Much Money Off Other Peoples Backs: Status in Late Modern
Societies. Canadian Journal of Sociology 25(4):441-470. [1]

VI: FIELDS [19 units]

Anheier, Helmut K., Jurgen Gerhards, and Frank P. Romo. 1995. Forms of Capital and Social
Structure in Cultural Fields: Examining Bourdieus Social Topography. American Journal
of Sociology 100(4):859903. [1]

Bottero, Wendy and Nick Crossley. 2011. Worlds, Fields and Networks: Becker, Bourdieu and
the Structures of Social Relations. Cultural Sociology 5(1): 99119. [1]

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Bourdieu, Pierre. 1984. Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste. Translated by
Richard Nice. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. [5]

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1993. The Field of Cultural Production. New York: Columbia University Press.
Chapters 1 and 2. [1]

DiMaggio, Paul J. and Walter W. Powell. 1983. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional
Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields. American Sociological
Review 48(2):147160. [1]

Ferguson, Priscilla Parkhurst. 1998. A Cultural Field in the Making: Gastronomy in 19thCentury
France. American Journal of Sociology 104(3):597641. [1]

Leschziner, Vanina. 2015. At the Chefs Table: Culinary Creativity in Elite Restaurants. Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press. [5]

Leschziner, Vanina and Adam Isaiah Green. 2013. Thinking about Food and Sex: Deliberate
Cognition in the Routine Practices of a Field. Sociological Theory 31(2):116-144. [1]

McLeod, Julie. 2005. Feminists Re-reading Bourdieu: Old Debates and New Questions About
Gender Habitus and Gender Change. Theory and Research in Education 3(1):11-30. [1]

Veenstra, Gerry. 2010. "Culture and Class in Canada." Canadian Journal of Sociology 35(1):83
111. [1]

Warde, Alan and Modesto Gayo-Cal. 2009. The Anatomy of Cultural Omnivorousness: The
Case of the United Kingdom. Poetics 37(2):11945. [1]

VII. PRODUCTION OF CULTURE [28 units]

Acord, Sophia K. and Tia DeNora. 2008. Culture and the Arts: From Art Worlds to Arts-in-
Action. The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 619(1):223-
37. [1]

Baumann, Shyon. 2007. Hollywood Highbrow: From Entertainment to Art. Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press. Introduction and conclusion. [1]

Becker, Howard. 1982. Art Worlds. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press. [5]

Bielby, William T. and Denise D. Bielby. 1994. All Hits Are Flukes: Institutionalized Decision
Making and the Rhetoric of Network Prime-Time Program Development. American
Journal of Sociology 99(5):1287-1313. [1]

DeNora, Tia. 2002. Music into Action: Performing Gender on the Viennese Concert Stage,
17901810. Poetics 30(12):1933. [1]

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Dowd, Timothy J. 2004. Concentration and Diversity Revisited: Production Logics in the U.S.
Mainstream Recording Market, 1940 - 1990. Social Forces 82(4):1411-1455. [1]

Fine, Gary Alan. 2003. Crafting Authenticity: The Validation of Identity in Self-Taught Art.
Theory and Society 32(2):153180. [1]

Foster, Pacey, Stephen P. Borgatti, and Candace Jones. 2011. Gatekeeper Search and Selection
Strategies: Relational and Network Governance in a Cultural Market. Poetics 39(4):247
65. [1]

Giuffre, Katherine. 1999. Sandpiles of Opportunity: Success in the Art World. Social Forces
77(3):815-32. [1]

Godart, Frdric C. and Ashley Mears. 2009. How Do Cultural Producers Make Creative
Decisions? Lessons from the Catwalk. Social Forces 88(2):67192. [1]

Griswold, Wendy. 1981. American Character and the American Novel: An Expansion of
Reflection Theory in the Sociology of Literature. American Journal of Sociology
86(4):74065. [1]

Hesmondhalgh, David and Sarah Baker. 2010. A Very Complicated Version of Freedom:
Conditions and Experiences of Creative Labour in Three Cultural Industries. Poetics
38(1):420. [1]

Hirsch, Paul M. 1972. Processing Fads and Fashions: An Organization-Set Analysis of Cultural
Industry Systems. American Journal of Sociology 77(4):63959. [1]

Lloyd, Richard. 2004. The Neighborhood in Cultural Production: Material and Symbolic
Resources in the New Bohemia. City & Community 3(4):34372. [1]

Mears, Ashley. 2010. Size Zero High-End Ethnic: Cultural Production and the Reproduction of
Culture in Fashion Modeling. Poetics 38(1):2146. [1]

Oberlin, Kathleen C. and Thomas F. Gieryn. 2015. Place and Culture-Making: Geographic
Clumping in the Emergence of Artistic Schools. Poetics 50:2043. [1]

Patterson, Matt and Daniel Silver. 2015. The Place of Art: Local Area Characteristics and Arts
Growth in Canada, 20012011. Poetics 51:6987. [1]

Peterson, Richard A. 1997. Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press. Introduction and conclusion. [1]

Peterson, Richard A. and N. Anand. 2004. The Production of Culture Perspective. Annual
Review of Sociology 30(1):31134. [1]

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Phillips, Damon J. 2011. Jazz and the Disconnected: City Structural Disconnectedness and the
Emergence of a Jazz Canon, 18971933. American Journal of Sociology 117(2):42083.
[1]

Uzzi, Brian and Jarrett Spiro. 2005. Collaboration and Creativity: The Small World Problem.
American Journal of Sociology 111(2):447504. [1]

White, Harrison C. and Cynthia A. White. [1965] 1993. Canvases and Careers: Institutional
Change in the French Painting World. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. [3]

Supplemental Readings

Bielby, Denise D. and William T. Bielby. 1996. Women and Men in Film: Gender Inequality
among Writers in a Culture Industry. Gender and Society 10(3):248-270 [1].

Dowd, Timothy J. 2003. "Structural Power and the Construction of Markets: The Case of
Rhythm and Blues." Comparative Social Research 21:147-201. [1]

Fine, Gary Alan. 1992. The Culture of Production: Aesthetic Choices and Constraints in Culinary
Work. American Journal of Sociology 97(5):126894. [1]

Grazian, David. 2003. Blue Chicago: The Search for Authenticity in Urban Blues Clubs. Chicago:
University of Chicago Press. Introduction and conclusion. [1]

VIII. CONSUMPTION [10 units]

Banks, Patricia A. 2010. Represent: Art and Identity Among the Black Upper-Middle Class. New
York: Routledge. Chapters 1, 4, 5, and 6, pp. 1 12, 55 - 96. [1]

Christin, Angle. 2012. Gender and Highbrow Cultural Participation in the United States.
Poetics 40(5):42343. [1]

Goldberg, Amir, Michael T. Hannan, and Balzs Kovcs. 2015. What Does It Mean to Span
Cultural Boundaries? Variety and Atypicality in Cultural Consumption. American
Sociological Review 81(2): 215-241. [1]

Johnston, Jose, Alexandra Rodney, and Michelle Szabo. 2012. Place, Ethics, and Everyday
Eating: A Tale of Two Neighbourhoods. Sociology 46(6):10911108. [1]

Mark, Noah. 1998. Birds of a Feather Sing Together. Social Forces 77(2):453-485. [1]

Peterson, Richard A. and Roger M. Kern. 1996. Changing Highbrow Taste: From Snob to
Omnivore. American Sociological Review 61(5):900-907. [1]

Rafferty, K. 2011. Class-Based Emotions and the Allure of Fashion Consumption. Journal of
Consumer Culture 11(2):23960. [1]

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Salganik, Matthew J. and Duncan J. Watts. 2008. Leading the Herd Astray: An Experimental
Study of Self-Fulfilling Prophecies in an Artificial Cultural Market. Social psychology
quarterly 71(4):338355. [1]

Tanner, Julian, Mark Asbridge, and Scot Wortley. 2008. Our Favourite Melodies: Musical
Consumption and Teenage Lifestyles. The British Journal of Sociology 59(1):11744. [1]

Zukin, Sharon and Jennifer Smith Maguire. 2004. Consumers and Consumption. Annual
Review of Sociology 30(1):17397. [1]

IX. RECEPTION [14 units]

Benzecry, Claudio. 2011. The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession. Chicago: Chicago
University Press. Introduction and chapters 3 and 4. [1]

Childress, C. Clayton and Noah E. Friedkin. 2012. Cultural Reception and Production: The Social
Construction of Meaning in Book Clubs. American Sociological Review 77(1):4568. [1]

Griswold, Wendy. 1987. The Fabrication of Meaning: Literary Interpretation in the United
States, Great Britain, and the West Indies. American Journal of Sociology 92(5):1077
1117. [1]

Hall, Stuart. 1993. Encoding, Decoding. Pp. 507-517 in The Cultural Studies Reader, edited by
Simon During. London: Routledge. [1]

Hebdige, Dick. [1979] 1991. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London: Methuen. Introduction,
chapter 1 and conclusion. [1]

McDonnell, Terence E. 2010. Cultural Objects as Objects: Materiality, Urban Space, and the
Interpretation of AIDS Campaigns in Accra, Ghana. American Journal of Sociology
115(6):18001852. [1]

Milkie, Melissa A. 1999. Social Comparisons, Reflected Appraisals, and Mass Media: The
Impact of Pervasive Beauty Images on Black and White Girls Self-Concepts. Social
Psychology Quarterly 62(2):190210. [1]

Press, Andrea L. 2011. Feminism? Thats So Seventies: Girls and Young Women Discuss
Femininity and Feminism in Americas Next Top Model. Pp. 117-133 in New
Femininities, edited by Rosalind Gill and Christina Scharff. New York: Palgrave
Macmillan. [1]

Radway, Janice A. 1991. Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature. 2nd
ed. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. [5]

Shively, JoEllen. 1992. Cowboys and Indians: Perceptions of Western Films Among American
Indians and Anglos. American Sociological Review 57(6):725-734. [1]

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X. CATEGORIES AND EVALUATION [17 units]

Boltanski, Luc and Laurent Thvenot. 1999. The Sociology of Critical Capacity. European
Journal of Social Theory 2(3):35977. [1]

DiMaggio, Paul. 1987. Classification in Art. American Sociological Review 52(4):440-455. [1]

Douglas, Mary. 1966. Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo.
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. Introduction and chapter three. [1]

Fourcade, Marion. 2011. Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of
Nature. American Journal of Sociology 116(6):172177. [1]

Fourcade, Marion and Kieran Healy. 2007. Moral Views of Market Society. Annual Review of
Sociology 33:285311. [1]

Healy, Kieran. 2004. Altruism as an Organizational Problem: The Case of Organ Procurement.
American Sociological Review 69(3):387-404. [1]

Lamont, Michle. 2012. Toward a Comparative Sociology of Valuation and Evaluation. Annual
Review of Sociology 38(1):201-21. [1]

Lena, Jennifer C. and Richard A. Peterson. 2008. Classification as Culture: Types and
Trajectories of Music Genres. American Sociological Review 73(5):697-718. [1]

Negro, Giacomo, zgecan Koak, and Greta Hsu. 2010. " Research on Categories in the
Sociology of Organizations." Research in the Sociology of Organizations 31:3-35. [1]

Rosch, Eleanor. 1978. Principles of Categorization. Pp. 27-48 in Cognition and Categorization,
edited by Eleanor Rosch and Barbara B. Lloyd. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum
Associates. [1]

Spillman, Lyn. 1999. Enriching Exchange: Cultural Dimensions of Markets. The American
Journal of Economics and Sociology 58(4):1047-71. [1]

Velthius, Olav. 2006. Talking Prices: Symbolic Meanings of Prices on the Market for
Contemporary Art. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Chapter 1 (Introduction) and
chapter 8 (Conclusion). [1]

Wherry, Frederick F. 2008. The Social Characterizations of Price: The Fool, the Faithful, the
Frivolous, and the Frugal. Sociological Theory 26(4):363-379. [1]

Zelizer, Viviana. 2011. Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy. Princeton University
Press. Princeton: Princeton University Press. Introduction (pp. 112), Human Values
and the Market (pp. 1939), The Price and Value of Children (pp. 40-60), The Social

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 Meaning of Money, (pp. 93-127), Culture and Consumption (pp. 398-439), Ethics in
the Economy (pp. 440457). [3]

Zuckerman, Ezra W. 1999. The Categorical Imperative: Securities Analysts and the Illegitimacy
Discount. American Journal of Sociology 104(5):1398-1438. [1]

XI. Culture & Cognition [13 units]

Bourdieu, Pierre. 1990. The Logic of Practice. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Chapter 3.
[1]

Cerulo, Karen A. 2010. Mining the Intersections of Cognitive Sociology and Neuroscience.
Poetics 38(2):115-32. [1]

DAndrade, Roy. 1995. The Development of Cognitive Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge

DiMaggio, Paul. 1997. Culture and Cognition. Annual Review of Sociology 23: 263-287. [1]

Hutchins, Edwin. 1995. Cognition in the Wild. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. Introduction and
chapter 2. [1]

Ignatow, Gabriel. 2007. Theories of Embodied Knowledge: New Directions for Cultural and
Cognitive Sociology? Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior 37(2):115-135. [1]

Levi, John Martin. 2011. The Explanation of Social Action. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Introduction and chapter 4. [1]

Lizardo, Omar and Michael Strand. 2010. Skills, Toolkits, Contexts and Institutions: Clarifying
the Relationship between Different Approaches to Cognition in Cultural Sociology.
Poetics 38(2):205-28. [1]

Miles, Andrew. 2015. "The (Re)genesis of Values: Examining the Importance of Values for
Action." American Sociological Review 80(4):680-704. [1]

Mohr, John W. and Vincent Duquenne. 1997. The Duality of Culture and Practice: Poverty
Relief in New York City, 1888-1917. Theory and Society 26(2/3):305-56. [1]

Zerubavel, Eviatar. 1999. Social Mindscapes: An Invitation to Cognitive Sociology. Cambridge,

Supplemental Readings

Espeland, Wendy Nelson and Mitchell L. Stevens. 1998. Commensuration as a Social Process.
Annual Review of Sociology 24:313-343. [1]

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