Looking for America;: Essays on youth, suburbia, and other American obsessions

Berger, Bennett M.

PRENTICE/HALL

Working-class Suburb: Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

University of California Press

The Survival of a Counterculture is a lively, engaging look into the ways communards, or people who live in communes, maintain, modify, use, and otherwise live with their convictions while they attempt to get through the problems of everyday life. Communal families shape their norms to the circumstances they live with, just as on a larger scale nations and major institutions also shape their ideologies to the pressures of circumstance they feel. With a new introduction by the author that brings his work up to date, this volume raises important questions regarding sociological theory.

The Survival of a Counterculture: Ideological Work and Everyday Life Among Rural Communards

Univ. Of California Pr.

A look at life on a rural commune examines the way children are raised, how intimate relationships are handled, and the effects of technology on the pursuit of self-sufficiency

All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, extraordinary determination, and sometimes plain good fortune are among the many forces that combine to mold the individual talents presented in Authors of Their Own Lives. With contributions from women and men, young and old, native-born Americans and immigrants, quantitative scholars and qualitative ones, this book provides a fascinating source for students and professional sociologists alike. Some of the autobiographies maintain their reserve, others are profoundly revealing. Their subjects range from childhood, educational, and intellectual influences, to academic careerism and burnout, to the history of American sociology. Authors stands alone as a deeply personal autobiographical account of contemporary sociology.

Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

An Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure

The result of 35 years of thought and research on culture by one of the best and most literate writers in sociology, this wide-ranging review of the meaning and study of culture is Bennett Berger at his best. Drawing on his unsurpassed knowledge of the scholarly literature and on his wealth of personal experience, Berger reviews and synthesizes recent work in cultural sociology from a materialist perspective. His essay culminates in a call for an empirical research program focused on the relation between symbolic choices and social locations, rather than on interpretive accounts of the meanings of texts or performances.Among his unusual insights are a defense of reductionism, sympathetic accounts of "peer pressure" and "special interests," an attempt to restore some dignity to the word "ideology," and a fresh perspective on "conspiracy theory."Scholars and students of culture alike will find here stunning discussions and theoretical insights on ideological work, morality and culture, and on the relations between social structure and cultural structure.

The result of 35 years of thought and research on culture by one of the best and most literate writers in sociology, this wide-ranging review of the meaning and study of culture is Bennett Berger at his best. Drawing on his unsurpassed knowledge of the scholarly literature and on his wealth of personal experience, Berger reviews and synthesizes recent work in cultural sociology from a materialist perspective. His essay culminates in a call for an empirical research program focused on the relation between symbolic choices and social locations, rather than on interpretive accounts of the meanings of texts or performances. Among his unusual insights are a defense of reductionism, sympathetic accounts of "peer pressure" and "special interests," an attempt to restore some dignity to the word "ideology," and a fresh perspective on "conspiracy theory." Scholars and students of culture alike will find here stunning discussions and theoretical insights on ideological work, morality and culture, and on the relations between social structure and cultural structure.

The result of thirty-five years of thought and research on culture by one of the best and most literate writers in sociology, this wide-ranging review of the meaning and study of culture is Bennett Berger at his best. Drawing on his unsurpassed knowledge of the scholarly literature and on his wealth of personal experience, Berger reviews and synthesizes recent work in cultural sociology from a materialist perspective. An Essay on Culture culminates in a call for an empirical research program focused on the relation between symbolic choices and social locations, rather than on interpretive accounts of the meanings of texts or performances. &nbsp; Among his unusual insights are a defense of reductionism, sympathetic accounts of peer pressure and special interests, an attempt to restore some dignity to the word "ideology," and a fresh perspective on conspiracy theory. &nbsp; Scholars and students of culture will find here stunning discussions and theoretical insights on ideological work, morality and culture, and on the relations between social structure and cultural structure. <div>&nbsp;</div> <div>This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1995.</div> <div>&nbsp;</div>

Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure

Anthropology

Working-Class Suburb: A Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1960.

Sociology

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1960.

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Looking for America;: Essays on youth, suburbia, and other American obsessions

Working-class Suburb: Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia

The Survival of a Counterculture: Ideological Work and Everyday Life Among Rural Communards

The Survival of a Counterculture: Ideological Work and Everyday Life Among Rural Communards

Authors of Their Own Lives: Intellectual Autobiographies by Twenty American Sociologists

An Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure

An Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure

Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure

Working-Class Suburb: A Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia

Working-Class Suburb: A Study of Auto Workers in Suburbia