Sociology of Culture Books

New and Published Books

1. Gender, Branding, and the Modern Music Industry

   The Social Construction of Female Popular Music Stars

   By Kristin Lieb

   Gender, Branding, and The Modern Music Industry combines interview data with music industry professionals with theoretical frameworks from sociology, mass communication, and marketing to explain and explore the gender differences female artists experience. This book provides a rare lens on the...

   Published January 31st 2013 by Routledge
2. Generation, Discourse, and Social Change

   By Karen R. Foster

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Just what is a generation? And why, if at all, does it matter? This book asks what generation means to ordinary people, arguing that generation is real and it matters, but not in the ways that we think. Generations are not groups of people who can be categorized and attributed with static,...

   Published January 15th 2013 by Routledge
3. Understanding Society through Popular Music

   2nd Edition

   By Joe Kotarba, Bryce Merrill, J Patrick Williams, Phillip Vannini

   Written for Introductory Sociology and Sociology of Popular Music courses, the second edition of Understanding Society through Popular Music uses popular music to illustrate fundamental social institutions, theories, sociological concepts, and processes. The authors use music, a social phenomenon...

   Published January 10th 2013 by Routledge
4. Alcohol

   Social Drinking in Cultural Context

   By Janet Chrzan

   Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

   Alcohol: Social Drinking in Cultural Context critically examines alcohol use across cultures and through time. This short text is a framework for students to self-consciously examine their beliefs about and use of alcohol, and a companion text for teaching the primary concepts of anthropology to...

   Published January 6th 2013 by Routledge
5. The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism

   Edited by Melanie Smith, Greg Richards

   The Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism explores and critically evaluates the debates and controversies in this field of Tourism. It brings together leading specialists from a range of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical regions, to provide state-of-the-art theoretical reflection and...

   Published December 20th 2012 by Routledge
6. The Capitalist Personality

   Face-to-Face Sociality and Economic Change in the Post-Communist World

   By Christopher S. Swader

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Modern capitalism favors values that undermine our face-to-face bonds with friends and family members. Focusing on the post-communist world, and comparing it to more "developed" societies, this book reveals the mixed effects of capitalist culture on interpersonal relationships. While most observers...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. Sociology of the Visual Sphere

   Edited by Regev Nathansohn, Dennis Zuev

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This collection of original articles deals with two intertwined general questions: what is the visual sphere, and what are the means by which we can study it sociologically? These questions serve as the logic for dividing the book into two sections, the first ("Visualizing the Social, Sociologizing...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
8. The Culture of Enterprise in Neoliberalism

   Specters of Entrepreneurship

   By Tomas Marttila

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   This book provides an empirical study of the increasing importance of the concept of the entrepreneur in the context of the neoliberal cultural paradigm. Using the theoretical framework of the post-structural discourse theory and methods of qualitative discourse analysis, the book describes the...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
9. The Routledge Companion to Digital Consumption

   Edited by Russell W. Belk, Rosa Llamas

   Series: Routledge Companions in Business, Management and Accounting

   The first generation that has grown up in a digital world is now in our university classrooms. They, their teachers and their parents have been fundamentally affected by the digitization of text, images, sound, objects and signals. They interact socially, play games, shop, read, write, work,...

   Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge
10. The World of Wal-Mart

    Discounting the American Dream

    By Nick Copeland, Christine Labuski

    Series: Routledge Series for Creative Teaching and Learning in Anthropology

    This book demonstrates the usefulness of anthropological concepts by taking a critical look at Wal-Mart and the American Dream. Rather than singling Wal-Mart out for criticism, the authors treat it as a product of a socio-political order that it also helps to shape. The book attributes Wal-Mart’s...

    Published December 17th 2012 by Routledge