From Sociology to Cultural Studies: New Perspectives

Preface.

Introduction: Engaging Sociology and Cultural Studies: Disciplinarity and Social Change: Elizabeth Long (Rice University).

Part I: Thinking Through Memory and Tradition:.

1. Relativizing Sociology: The Challenge of Cultural Studies: Steven Seidman (State University of New York at Albany).

2. Reading Architecture in the Holocaust Museum: A Method and an Empirical Illustration: Magali Sarfatti Larson (Temple University).

3. Subject Crises and Subject Work: Repositioning DuBois: Jon Cruz (University of California, Santa Barbara).

4. Conserving Cultural Studies: Andres Goodwin and Janet Wolff (University of San Francisco and University of Rochester).

Part II: Reframing Popular Forms and Usages:.

5. Monsters and Muppets: The History of Childhood and Techniques of Cultural Analysis: Chandra Mukerji (University of California, San Diego).

6. Rewriting the Pleasure/Danger Dialectic: Tricia Rose (New York University).

7. Situating Television in Everyday Life: Reformulating a Cultural Studies Approach to the Study of Television Use: Ron Lembo (Amherst College).

8. Facing Up to What's Killing Us: Artistic Practice and Grassroots Social Theory: George Lipsitz.

Part III: Relating Cultural Processes and Social Inequality:.

9. Colliding Moralities Between Black and White Workers: Michele Lamont (Princeton University).

10. The Ideology of Intensive Mothering: A Cultural Analysis of the Best-Selling 'Gurus' of Appropriate Child-rearing: Sharon Hays (University of Virginia).

11. Mexican American Youth and the Politics of Caring: Angela Valenzuela (Rice University).

12. Jazz Tradition, Institutional Formation, and Cultural Practice: The Canon and the Street as Frameworks for Oppositional Black Cultural Politics: Herman Gray (University of California, Santa Cruz).

Part IV: Engaging Disciplinarity and Other Politics of Knowledge:.

13. The Social Construction of "Social Cunstruction": Notes on "Teddy Bear Patriarchy": Michael Schudson (University of California, San Diego).

14. Critical Cultural Studies as One Power/Knowledge Like, Among, and In Engagement with Others: George Marcus (Rice University).

15. The Men We Left Behind Us, or Reading Our Br(others): Narratives Around and About Feminism from White, Leftwing, Academic Men: Judith Newton and Judith Stacey (University of California at Davis and University of Southern California).

16. Re-Inventing Cultural Studies: Remembering for the Best Version: Richard Johnson (Nottingham Trent University).

17. Whither Cultural Studies?: Ellen Messer-Davidow (University of Minnesota).

Index.