The thoroughly revised and updated second edition of the Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology provides an unparalleled overview of sociological and related scholarship on the complex relations of culture to social structures and everyday life. With 70 essays written by scholars from around the world the book brings diverse approaches into dialogue charting new pathways for understanding culture in our global era. Short accessible chapters by contributing authors address classic questions emergent issues and new scholarship on topics ranging from cultural and social theory to politics and the state social stratification identity community aesthetics and social and cultural movements. In addition contributors explore developments central to the constitution and reproduction of culture such as power technology and the organization of work. This handbook is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students interested in a wide range of subfields within sociology as well as cultural studies media and communication and postcolonial theory.|Routledge Handbook of Cultural Sociology | Sociology
