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1 Online-Ressource (xv, 375 pages)
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ISBN:
9780511628108
Series Statement:
Cambridge cultural social studies
Content:
This book provides a powerful theoretical framework for understanding cross-national cultural differences. Focusing on France and America, it analyses how the people of these two different cultures mobilise national 'repertoires of evaluation' to make judgements about politics, economics, morals and aesthetics. The analysis draws on eight case studies by eleven French and American researchers who have worked together over a number of years to develop systematic comparisons between these countries. The topics are wide-ranging, comparing how individuals use the cultural tools at their disposal to answer questions such as: are races equal? What constitutes sexual harassment? What is the value of contemporary art? Should journalists be neutral? How can the defense of the environment be reconciled with economic imperatives? Moving beyond simplistic essentialist models of national character, this comparative approach offers important insights that will interest not only sociologists but also political scientists and anthropologists
Content:
Introduction : Toward a renewed comparative cultural sociology / Michèle Lamont and Laurent Thévenot -- The rhetorics of racism and anti-racism in France and the United States / Michèle Lamont -- Sexual harassment in France and the United States : activists and public figures defend their definitions / Abigail Cope Saguy -- Assessing the literary : intellectual boundaries in French and American literary studies / Jason Duell -- Culture or commerce? Symbolic boundaries in French and American book publishing / Daniel Weber -- Involvement and detachment among French and American journalists : to be or not to be a "real" professional / Cyril Lemieux and John Schmalzbauer -- From rejection of contemporary art to culture war / Nathalie Heinich -- Community and civic culture : the Rotary Club in France and the United States / Agnès Camus-Vigué -- Forms of valuing nature : arguments and modes of justification in French and American environmental disputes / Laurent Thévenot, Michael Moody and Claudette Lafaye -- Comparing models of strategy, interests, and the public good in French and American environmental disputes / Michael Moody and Laurent Thévenot -- Conclusion : Exploring the French and the American polity / Laurent Thévenot and Michèle Lamont
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521782630
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521787949
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780521782630
Language:
English
Subjects:
Sociology
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511628108
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