Research Catalog

Title

Co-opting culture : culture and power in sociology and cultural studies / edited by B. Garrick Harden and Robert Carley.

Publication

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009], ©2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Harden, B. Garrick, 1981-
• Carley, Robert F., 1973-

Description

xxi, 315 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Power (Philosophy)
• Race relations
• Culture

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-307) and index.

Contents

Preface / Stjepan Mestrovic -- Pt. 1. Theory -- 1. Defrocking the "High Priest of Modernity:" Anthony Giddens and the Misappropriation of Trust in Radical Modernity / Keith Kerr and Xi Chen -- 2. Power, Culture, and Hegemony: A Theoretical Exploration of Gesellschaft / B. Garrick Harden -- 3. The Unicorn is Dead: Postmodernism, Consumption, and the Production of the "Self" / Ryan Ashley Caldwell -- 4. Some Brief Notes toward a Labor-Based Theory of Culture / Robert Carley -- Pt. 2. Gender and Sexuality -- 5. Gender Queer Productions and the Bridge of Cultural Legitimacy: "Realness" and "Identity" in Paris is Burning / Ryan Ashley Caldwell -- 6. Ambiguity Will Not Stand: An Exploratory Study of Transsexuality, and the Intimate Relationship between Sex, Race, Technology, Nature, and the "Nature" of Desire / Robert Carley -- Pt. 3. Globalization -- 7. Inter(sex)tions: Gender, Culture, and Globalization / Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino -- 8. Popular Classes and Neoliberalism: The Practices of Television Mediators in Argentina / Pablo Castagno -- 9. Modernity, Development, Hegemony: Social Change and Ethnic Assimilation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley / Jesse A. Garcia -- 10. "Like the Wildest Creation of a Dream": Dialectics, Visualization Technologies, and Aesthetics in the Writings of Francis Younghusband, George Mallory, and the Members of the 1999 Mallory & Irvine Research Expedition / Christopher M. Sutch -- Pt. 4. Popular Culture -- 11. Racial Determinism and the Interlocking Economies of Power and Violence in Dungeons and Dragons / Ilan Mitchell-Smith -- 12. Heebsters: Community and Identity (Re)construction of Urban Jewish Hipsters / Marcus Aldredge -- 13. In Blog We Trust - An Antiphon / B. Garrick Harden -- 14. Conspicuous Charity / Lindsay Anderson.

ISBN

• 9780739125977 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0739125974 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780739137048 (electronic : alk. paper)
• 0739137042 (electronic : alk. paper)

LCCN

• 2009001433
• 40016887769

OCLC

• ocn303087212
• 303087212
• SCSB-5479419

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries