Table of contents
Choices, constraints, and calling: conservative protestant women and the meaning of work in the US
Tracy L. ScottUses qualitative data to explore how contemporary religious beliefs mark conceptions of work, particularly with regards to the beliefs of conservative protestant women. Compares…
“A part of the neighbourhood?”: negotiating race in American suburbs
Karyn R. LacyCompares race relations in two suburban communities in order to show that middle‐class blacks meet with some success when they temporarily exchange their racial identity for a…
Culture on the weekend: Maghrebin women’s adaptation in France
Caitlin KillianConducts in‐depth interviews with 45 female North African immigrants to France about what they preferred and disliked in each country and about their own cultural behaviours…
Culture and commodifictation: technology and structural power in the early US recording industry
Timothy J. DowdDraws on Neo‐Weberian theory to argue that commodification is itself a cultural process, whilst not discounting the potentially negative effect of commercialisation. Examines…
Music, culture and social movements: song and southern textile worker mobilization, 1929‐1934
Vincent J. Roscigno, William F. Danaher, Erika Summers‐EfflerHighlights the importance of music in ritual and culture generally, extending the focus to collective action. Argues that music and its emotional and cognitive impacts can be…
Working definitions: educational organization and the meaning of multiculturalism
Bethany BrysonDraws on interviews with 76 English professors in 4 US universities to document emerging definitions of multiculturalism and connect them to organizational conditions in each…
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- Prof Colin Williams