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Winter 2024 (Vol. 40 Issue 1) [PDF]

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• Letter from the Chair
• Four Questions with Larissa Buchholz – Manning Zhang
• Book Review by Estela Diaz: Seeing Others by Michèle Lamont
• SSHA Conference Session Report by Marissa Combs
• Newsletter Announcements

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Summer 2023 (Vol. 39 Issue 3) [PDF]

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• Letter from the Chair
• Four Questions with Mario Small – Jennifer Dudley
• Book Review by Joselyne Quiroz: Refashioning Race by Alka Menon
• CCL Event Report by Manning Zhang: Theodicy and the Problem of Meaning
• Taxing and the Boundaries of Art – Nathalie Heinich
• Report on the Culture Section Mentoring Program – Marshall A. Taylor
• Newsletter Announcements

 

Summer 2023 (Vol. 39 Issue 2) [PDF]

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• Letter from the Chair
• Questions with Asia Friedman
• Book Review: Fair Share by Gary Alan Fine
• CCL Event Report: Belligerent Nationalism
• Newsletter Announcements

Spring 2023 (Vol. 39 Issue 1) [PDF]

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• Letter from the Chair
• Four Questions with Talia Shiff
• Book Review: Figures of the Future
• Book Review: Ruling Culture
• Diversity and Inclusion Committee Report
• SSHA Book Symposium: How Civic Action Works
• Newsletter Announcements

Winter 2022 (Vol. 38 Issue 3) [PDF]

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• Letter from Chair
• 2022 “Culture in Contemporary Life” (CCL) Series Lineup
• John Mohr Dissertation Improvement Grant Recipient Spotlight
• ASA Culture Section Call for Award Nominations
• Cultural Sociology’s Rare Diamond: An Interview with Wendy Griswold
• Announcements – New Articles, New Books, Conferences and Symposia.

 

Edited by Man Yao, Elizabeth Trudeau, Bambang Trihadmojo, and Manning Zhang

2022 Vol. 38 Issue 2 [PDF]

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• Letter from Chair
• 2022 ASA Culture Section Session Schedule
• Publication Awards
• Mentorship Program Report
• Four Questions with Karen A. Cerulo
• CCL reports
• Book Review of Race at the Top
• Announcement
• Sound Study Recruitment
• Our Editors

Edited by Manning Zhang, Bo Yun Park, and Bambang Trihadmojo

2022 Vol. 38 Issue 1 [PDF]

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• Letter from the Chair
• Book Symposium: Populism in the Civil Sphere
• Four Questions for Bin Xu
• Report: “Revisiting Cultural Methods to Address Racism”
• Special Announcements
• Announcements

Edited by Manning Zhang, Bo Yun Park, and Bambang Trihadmojo

2021 Vol. 37 Issue 1 [PDF]

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• Letter from the Chair
• ASA Culture Section 2021
• Book Review
• Four Questions for Angèle Christin
• Research Highlights
• Poem: “Our Skin”
• New Book Summary
• Announcements

Edited by Bo Yun Park, Emma Brown, Manning Zhang, and Bambang Trihadmojo

2021 Vol. 36 Issue 1 [PDF]

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• Letter from the Chair
• Culture Section Awards
• Four Questions with Matthew Clair
• Essay: “Gonzo Governance”
• Report: “The Cultural Politics of Naming and Commemoration“
• ASA 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting Culture Section Events
• Job Market Profiles
• Graduate Students’ Stories in Getting Jobs during COVID19 Pandemic
• Announcements
  • New Book Summary
  • Newly Published Books and Articles

Edited by Yu Ching Cheng and Bambang Trihadmojo

2021 Vol. 35 Issue 5 [PDF]

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• Letter from the Chair
• Memorials:
  • Barry Schwartz
• Book Review: “Measuring Culture”
• Essay:
  • The Power of Speculative Fiction in Politics: Foucault’s Prophetic Truth
• Reports:
  • The Culture of Poverty Myth and Anti-Blackness in the 21^st Century
  • Vaccination in the Age of COVID
• Announcements
  • Culture Section Mentorship Program
  • Recently Published Articles and Books

Edited by Yu Ching Cheng, Johnnie Lotesta, A.J. Young, Bambang Trihadmojo

2021 Vol. 34 Issue 4 (Winter) [PDF]

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• Letter from the Chair 
• Race and Sociology of Art      
• Four Questions for Lindsay DePalma
• Culture Section Mentorship Program:  Reflections and Future Prospects   
• Report: “The 2020 Election: A Cultural Post-Mortem”         
• Book Review: Creating the Creation Museum          
• Podcasting for Sociologists
• Announcements

Edited by Yu Ching Cheng, Johnnie Lotesta, A.J. Young, Bambang Trihadmojo

2020 Vol. 33 Issue 3 (Fall) [PDF]

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• Letter From Chair
• Job Market Profiles
• Book Review:
  • Above the Fray: The Red Cross and the Making of the Humanitarian NGO Sector
• Award Summaries
• Award Nomination Calls for 2021
• “A Dialogue with Alvaro Santana-Acuña on Ascent To Glory, Imagination, and Global Consecration”
• Announcements
• Call for Contributions

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Edited by Yu Ching Cheng, Johnnie Lotesta, A.J. Young

2020 Vol. 32 Issue 2 (Summer) [PDF]

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• Letter from the Chair
• 2020 Cultural Section Awards
• Essays on COVID19 and Culture
  • Cultural Sociology of “HOME”
  • Face-to-Face with Zoom?
  • Urban Social Life on Hold
  • Bridging Physical Distance
  • Health Behavior Disparities Along Party Lines
  • The Mediatized President
  • Time, Culture, and Covid-19
• Four Questions For Cecilia Ridgeway
• ASA Paper Summaries
• Race & Culture Resource List
• Announcements

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Edited by Yu Ching Cheng, Johnnie Lotesta, A.J. Young

2020 Vol. 32 Issue 1 (Spring) [PDF]

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• Letter From the Chair
• Letter From the Editors
• Book Symposium: The Civil Sphere in East Asia
  • A Tale of Two Civil Spheres
  • East Asian Political Cultures and Civil Sphere Theory
  • Between East Asian cases and Western-originated concepts
  • On “Applicability” of CST to Non-Western Contexts
  • Against the Idea of “Western Modernity”: Axial Foundations and Contemporary Civil Spheres in East Asia
  • The Geopolitics of Civil Spheres: Hong Kong and the China Factor
• Featured Article: How to Have Sociology in a Pandemic
• Book Symposium: A Culture of Growth
  • Introduction: Defining a Model of Cultural Change
  • Getting It Almost Exactly Right; Mokyr’s Glittering Culture of Capitalism
  • Can economics explain cultural change?
  • Elites, Cultural Bias, and Ideas as Drivers of Economic Advance:
    Comments on A Culture of Growth
  • Four Questions To Mokyr’s A Cultural of Growth
  • Culture, Useful Knowledge, and A Belief in Human Agency
• Four Questions For Steven Lukes
• Teaching Abstracts (in PDF)
• Announcements (in PDF)

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Edited by Hillary Angelo, Diana Graizbord, Michael Rodriguez-Muñiz

2019 Vol. 31 Issue 2 (Fall) [PDF]

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• Letter From the Chair
• Four Questions For Jennifer Lena
• Roundtable:
  • Maintenance and repair as cultural work
  • The Social Aesthetics of Maintenance
  • With and without signs
  • Broken Data
  • Why I Study Maintenance and Repair
• Four Questions For Hayagreeva Rao
• Conference Reports: Algorithmic Cultures
• Memorial: A Conversation on John Mohr
• Department Profile: University of Minnesota
• Book Review: Gone Home, reviewed by Emily Handsman
• Article Review: “Scents and Scensibility,” reviewed by Nicholas Bascuñan-Wiley
• Announcements (in PDF)

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Archives

(2017-2019) Edited by Hillary Angelo, Diana Graizbord, Michael Rodriguez-Muñiz

2019 Vol. 31 Issue 1 (Summer) [PDF]
2018 Vol. 30 Issue 3 (Fall) [PDF]
2018 Vol. 30 Issue 2 (Summer) [PDF]
2018 Vol 30 Issue 1 (Winter) [PDF]
2017 Vol 29 Issue 3 (Fall) [PDF]

(2015-2017) Edited by Alexandra Kowalski and Hillary Angelo

2017 Vol. 29 Issue 1-2 (Spring/Summer) [PDF]
2016 Vol. 28 Issue 3 (Fall/Winter) [PDF]
2016 Vol. 28 Issue 2 (Summer) [PDF]
2016 Vol. 28 Issue 1 (Winter) [PDF]

(2015) Edited by Alexandra Kowalski

2015 Vol. 27 Issue 2 (Fall) [PDF]
2015 Vol. 27 Issue 1 (Summer) [PDF]

(2012-2014) Edited by Claudio Benzecry, Andrew Deener, and Jonathan Wynn

2014 Vol. 26 Issue 2 (Summer) [PDF]
2014 Vol. 26 Issue 1 (Spring) [PDF]
2013 Vol. 26 Issue 3 (Fall) [PDF]
2013 Vol. 26 Issue 2 (Summer) [PDF]
2013 Vol. 26 Issue 1 (Spring) [PDF]
2012 Vol. 25 Issue 3 (Fall) [PDF]
2012 Vol. 25 Issue 2 (Spring) [PDF]
2012 Vol. 25 Issue 1 (Winter) [PDF]

(2008-2011) Edited by Andrew Perrin

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2010 Vol. 24 Issue 2 (Spring) [PDF]
2009 Vol. 24 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
2009 Vol. 23 Issue 3 (Spring, September) [PDF]
2009 Vol. 23 Issue 1 (Spring) [PDF]
2008 Vol. 23 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
2008 Vol. 22 Issue 3 (Spring/Summer) [PDF]
2008 Vol. 22 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]

(2002-2007) Edited by Mark D. Jacobs

2007 Vol. 22 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
2007 Vol. 21 Issue 3 (Spring) [PDF]
2007 Vol. 21 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
2006 Vol. 21 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
2006 Vol. 20 Issue 3 (Spring) [PDF]
2006 Vol. 20 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
2005 Vol. 20 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
2005 Vol. 19 Issue 3 (Spring) [PDF]
2005 Vol. 19 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
2004 Vol. 19 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
2004 Vol. 18 Issue 3 (Spring) [PDF]
2004 Vol. 18 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
2003 Vol. 18 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
2003 Vol. 17 Issue 2/3 (Spring) [PDF]
2002 Vol. 17 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
2002 Vol. 16 Issue 3 (Spring) [PDF]
2002 Vol. 16 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
2001 Vol. 16 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
2001 Vol. 15 Issue 3 (Spring) [PDF]
2000 Vol. 15 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]

(1998-2000) Edited by Karen A. Cerulo

2000 Vol. 15 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
2000 Vol. 14 Issue 3 (Spring/Summer) [PDF]
2000 Vol. 14 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
1999 Vol. 14 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
1999 Vol. 13 Issue 3 (Spring/Summer) [PDF]
1999 Vol. 13 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
1998 Vol. 13 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
1998 Vol. 12 Issue 3 (Spring/Summer) [PDF]

(1994-1997) Edited by Stephen Hart

1997 Vol. 12 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
1997 Vol. 11 Issue 3/4 (Spring/Summer) [PDF]
1997 Vol. 11 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
1996 Vol. 11 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
1996 Vol. 10 Issue 3/4 (Spring/Summer) [PDF]
1995. Vol 10 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
1995 Vol. 10 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
1995 Vol. 9 Issue 3 (Spring) [PDF]
1995 Vol. 9 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
1994 Vol. 9 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF, incomplete]
1994 Vol. 8 Issue 3-4 (Spring/Summer) [PDF]
1994 Vol. 8 Issue 1 (Winter) [PDF]

(1992-1993) Edited by Cheryl Zollars and Muriel Cantor

1993 Vol. 8 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
1993 Vol. 7 Issue 3/4 (Spring/Summer) [PDF]
1993 Vol. 7 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
1992 Vol. 7 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]
1992 Vol. 6 Issue 4 (Summer) [PDF]
1992 Vol. 6 Issue 3 (Spring) [PDF]
1992 Vol. 6 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
1992 Vol. 6 Issue 1 [Missing]
1991 Vol. 5 [Missing]
1990 Vol. 4 [PDF, incomplete]

(1987-1989) Edited by Liah Greenfeld and Richard A. Peterson

1989 Vol. 3 Issue 3 (Spring)[PDF, incomplete]
1989 Vol. 3 Issue 2 (Winter) [PDF]
1988 Vol. 3 Issue 1 [Missing]
1988 Vol. 2 Issue 4 (Spring) [PDF]
1988 Vol. 2 Issue 3 (Spring) [PDF]
1987 Vol. 2 Issue 2 [Missing]
1987 Vol. 2 Issue 1 (Fall) [PDF]

(1986) Edited by Unknown

1987 Vol. 1 Issue 2 (Spring) [Missing]
1986 Vol. 1 Issue 1 [Missing]