1st Edition
Vocabularies of Public Life Empirical Essays in Symbolic Structure
Notes on contributors Introduction: New directions in the empirical study of cultural codes Robert Wuthnow 1. The restriction of meaning in religious discourse: centripetal devices in a fundamentalist Christian sermon Marsha Witten 2. The gospel of giving: the narrative construction of a sacrificial economy Susan Harding 3. When scientists saw ghosts and why they stopped: American spiritualism in history Eva Marie Garroutte 4. Reading science as text David E. Woolwine 5. Paradox in the discourse of science Joan M. Morris 6. Putting it together: measuring the syntax of aural and visual symbols Karen A. Cerulo 7. The musical structure and social context of number one songs, 1955 to 1988: an exploratory analysis Timothy Jon Dowd 8. A theory of pictorial discourse Albert Bergesen 9. Decoding the syntax of modern dance Albert Bergesen and Allison Jones 10. Metaphors of industrial rationality: the social construction of electronics policy in the United States and France Frank Dobbin 11. The parameters of possible constitutional interpretation Benjamin Gregg 12. The role of elites in setting agendas for public debate: a historical case Richard L. Rogers 13. Materialism, ideology, and political change Gene Burns
Biography
Robert Wuthnow
