Culture, Power, and History : Studies in Critical Sociology

by Patricia Arend, Abigail Brooks and Denis

• ISBN13: 9781608460434
• ISBN10: 1608460436
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: Haymarket Books

Summary

This volume brings together theoretical meditations and empirical studies of the intersection of culture, power and history in social life. New strategies for marketing and advertising to children, the production of gendered subjectivity in maquiladora factories, the racialized economic history of the construction of the Chicago School of sociology, and the normalization of cosmetic plastic surgery in contemporary America-these are some of the crossroads under investigation here, where cultural meanings and practices are set against historical landscapes of power. ?Included are contributions from William Gamson, Juliet Schor, Stephen Pfohl, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, Jackie Orr, Leslie Salzinger, Eva Garroutte, Davarian Baldwin, Ramon Grosfoguel, Charlotte Ryan, Danielle Egan, Charles Sarno, Steve Farough, Karen McCorkmack, Abigail Brooks, Aimee Van Wagenen and William Wood. Pfohlrs"s books include Death at the Parasite Cafe: Social Science (Fictions) and the Postmodern (1992), Images of Deviance and Social Control: a Sociological History (1994), and Left Behind: Religion Technology and Flight from the Flesh (2007)

Table of Contents

Culture, Power, and History: An Introduction	p. 1
Culture
"Under the Knife and Proud of It:" An Analysis of the Normalization of Cosmetic Surgery	p. 23
"What Are You Lookin' At?" The Oppositional Gaze, Intersectionality, and the Social Geographies of White Masculinities	p. 59
The Commodification of Childhood: Tales from the Advertising Front Lines	p. 89
Movement Impact on Cultural Change	p. 103
On the Place of Allegory in the Methodological Conventions of a Critical Sociology: A Case Study of Max Weber's Protestant Ethic	p. 127
An Epistemology of Haunting	p. 155
Defining "Radical Indigenism" and Creating an American Indian Scholarship	p. 169
Power
Eyeing the Scene: The Uses and (RE)uses of Surveillance Cameras in an Exotic Dance Club	p. 199
To Build a More Perfect Discipline: Ideologies of the Normative and the Social Control of the Criminal Innocent in the Policing of New York City	p. 223
Resisting the Welfare Mother: The Power of Welfare Discourse and Tactics of Resistance	p. 261
From Gender as Object to Gender as Verb: Rethinking How Global Restructuring Happens	p. 293
Viral Power: Arthur and Marilouise Kroker Interviewed by William Wood	p. 309
History
Black Belts and Ivory Towers: The Place of Race in U.S. Social Thought, 1892-1948	p. 325
The Militarization of Inner Space	p. 379
It Takes a Movement to Raise an Issue: Media Lessons from the 1997 U.P.S. Strike	p. 411
(Virtual) Myths	p. 441
Geopolitics of Knowledge and Coloniality of Power: Thinking Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans from the Colonial Difference	p. 479
References	p. 507
About the Authors and Editors	p. 545
Index	p. 549
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