Comparative studies of culture and power

• Other Authors: Engelstad, Fredrik
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Amsterdam [u.a.] : Elsevier JAI, 2003.
• Edition: 1st. ed.
• Series: Comparative social research ; v. 21.
• Subjects: Power (Social sciences) > Cross-cultural studies.; Culture > Cross-cultural studies.; Cultural studies.; Social groups.; Social Science > Sociology > General.

The "cultural turn" in sociology created a new interest in power questions. This has led to a renewed interest in conceptual discussions of power in the field of culture studies, whereas empirical work is still less developed. "Comparative Studies of Culture and Power" sets the f...

Table of Contents:

• Power, culture, hegemony / Frederik Engelstad
• Doing politics, doing gender, doing power / Anne Krogstad and Kirsten Gomard
• Ostentation in comparative perspective: culture and elite legitimation / Jean-Pascal Daloz
• Collective memories at "work": the public remembering of contested pasts / Anna Lisa Tota
• Modernisms in action: comparing the relationship between visual arts, social classes and politics in Israeli nation-building / Graciela Trajtenberg
• National literature, collective identity and political power / Fredrik Engelstad
• Structural power and the construction of markets: the case of rhythm and blues / Timothy J. Dowd
• Paradoxes of welfare states and equal opportunities: gender and managerial power in Norway and the USA / Gunn Elisabeth Birkelund and Toril Sandnes.