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Book SynopsisThis 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.
Table of Contents1. Culture, Power, and History: An Introduction, Stephen Pfohl and Aimee Van Wagenen 2. Culture “Under the Knife and Proud of It:” An Analysis of the Normalization of Cosmetic Surgery, Abigail Brooks 3. “What Are You Lookin’ At?” The Oppositional Gaze, Intersectionality, and the Social Geographies of White Masculinities, Steven D. Farough 4. The Commodification of Childhood: Tales from the Advertising Front Lines, Juliet B. Schor 5. Movement Impact on Cultural Change, William A. Gamson 6. On the Place of Allegory in the Methodological Conventions of a Critical Sociology: A Case Study of Max Weber’s 7. Protestant Ethic, Charles Sarno 8. An Epistemology of Haunting, Aimee Van Wagenen 9. Defining “Radical Indigenism” and Creating an American Indian Scholarship, Eva Marie Garroutte 10. Power Eyeing the Scene: The Uses and (RE)uses of Surveillance Cameras in an Exotic Dance Club, R. Danielle Egan 11. 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, Delario Lindsey 12. Resisting the Welfare Mother: The Power of Welfare Discourse and Tactics of Resistance, Karen McCormack 13. From Gender as Object to Gender as Verb: Rethinking How Global Restructuring Happens, Leslie Salzinger 14. Viral Power: An Interview by William Wood, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 15. History Black Belts and Ivory Towers: The Place of Race in U.S. Social Thought, 1892–1948, Davarian L. Baldwin 16. The Militarization of Inner Space, Jackie Orr 17. It Takes a Movement to Raise an Issue: Media Lessons from the 1997 U.P.S. Strike, Charlotte Ryan (Virtual) Myths, William R. Wood 18. Geopolitics of Knowledge and Coloniality of Power: Thinking Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans from the Colonial Difference, Ramón Grosfoguel References About the Authors and Editors
