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Publications

Practicing Culture

(with Richard Sennett), (2007) Routledge.

Edited by Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett with chapters written by NYLON members. Published by Routledge as part of the Taking Culture Seriously series.

Table of Contents

Introduction Craig Calhoun and Richard Sennett

Chapter 1 "We have never been German": The economy of digging in Russian Kaliningrad Olga Sezneva

Chapter 2 Practicing poetry: A career without a job Ailsa Craig

Chapter 3 Hot glass: The calorific imagination of practice in glassblowing Erin O'Connor

Chapter 4 State power as field work: Culture and practice in the French survey of historic landmarks Alexandra Kowalski

Chapter 5 New and improved nations: Branding national identity Melissa Aronczyk

Chapter 6 Facts in the city: How London accountants simplify decisions Matthew Gill

Chapter 7 Managing doubt: Professional wrestling jargon and the making of "smart fans" Marion Wrenn

Chapter 8 Beauty at the gallery: Sentimental education and operatic community in contemporary Buenos Aires Claudio Benzecry

Chapter 9 The erotic life of hair clippers: A social history Alton Phillips

Chapter 10 Practicing authorship: The case of Brecht's plays Monika Krause

(with Chris Rojek and Bryan Turner), (2006) Sage Publications.

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General Introduction

Chapter 1 General Introduction

Chapter 2 Qualitative research traditions Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont

Chapter 3 Sociology and philosophy Randall Collins

Chapter 4 The diversity and insularity of sociological traditions Charles Crothers

Chapter 5 Social behavior as exchange [1958] George C. Homans

Chapter 6 Exchange and power in social life [1964] Peter Blau

Chapter 7 The logic of collective action [1965 ]Mancur Olson

Chapter 8 Rights to Act [1990] James S. Coleman

Chapter 9 Cooperation without law or trust [2005] Karen S. Cook, Russell Hardin, and Margaret Levi

Chapter 10 The iron cage revisited: Institutional isomorphism and collective rationality in organizational fields [1983] Paul J. DiMaggio and Walter W. Powell

Chapter 11 Economic embeddedness [1985] Mark Granovetter

Chapter 12 Catnets [1966] Harrison White

Chapter 13 The history of sexuality [1976] Michel Foucault

Chapter 14 Truth and power [1977] Michel Foucault

Chapter 15 Discipline and punish [1975] Michel Foucault

Chapter 16 Some new rules of the sociological method [1976] Anthony Giddens

Chapter 17 Agency, structure [1979] Anthony Giddens

Chapter 18 The consequences of modernity [1990] Anthony Giddens

Chapter 19 Social space and symbolic space [1994] Pierre Bourdieu

Chapter 20 Structures, Habitus, Practices [1994] Pierre Bourdieu

Chapter 21 The field of cultural production, or: The economic world reversed [1993] Pierre Bourdieu

Chapter 22 The conceptual practices of power [1990] Dorothy E. Smith

Chapter 23 Black feminist epistemology [1990] Patricia Hill Collins

Chapter 24 Black skin, white masks [1952] Frantz Fanon

Chapter 25 The paradoxes of integration [1997] Orlando Patterson

Chapter 26 Modernity: An unfinished project [1980] Jürgen Habermas

Chapter 27 The rationalization of the lifeworld [1981] Jürgen Habermas

Chapter 28 Civil society and the political public sphere [1996] Jürgen Habermas

Chapter 29 The social constraint twoards self-constraint [1937] Norbert Elias

Chapter 30 Modernity and the Holocaust [1989] Zygmunt Bauman

Chapter 31 We have never been modern [1991] Bruno Latour

Chapter 32 The modern world-system in crisis [2004] Immanuel Wallerstein

 

(2005) New Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 The new imperialists Matthew Connelly

Chapter 2 The history of lessons: Law and power in modern empire Emmanuelle Saada

Chapter 3 Imperial formations and the opacities of rule Ann Laura Stoler

Chapter 4 Modernizing colonialism and the limits of empire Frederick Cooper

Chapter 5 Learning from empire: Russia and the Soviet Union Ronald Grigor Suny

Chapter 6 Empires of liberty? Democracy and conquest in French Egypt, British Egypt, and American Iraq Juan Cole

Chapter 7 Law and legitimation in empire Caglar Keyder

Chapter 8 Imperialism or colonialism? From Windhoek to Washington, by way of Basra George Steinmetz

Chapter 9 Who counts? Imperial and corporate structures of governance, decolonialization, and limited liability John D. Kelly

Chapter 10 Empire and imitation Sheldon Pollock

Chapter 11 China's agrarian empire: A different kind of empire, a different kind of lesson R. Bin Wong

Chapter 12 Imperial power and its limits: America's colonial empire Julian Go

Chapter 13 Imperial and colonial encounters: Some comparative reflections Sanjay Subramanyam

Chapter 14 Ways of remembering the Maine: Lessons of 1898 in Spain and Cuba Christopher Schmidt-Nowara

Chapter 15 Agriculture, industry, empire, and America Craig N. Murphy

Chapter 16 Imperialism is alive and well: globalization and East Asia after September 11 Jomo K. S.

Chapter 17 Myths of emprie and strategies of hegemony Jack Snyder