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The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
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The Disjunction of Realms: A Statement of Themes The Double Bind of Modernity The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism The Disjunctions of Cultural Discourse The Sensibility of the Sixties The Dilemmas Of The Polity.Abstract:
* Foreword: 1978 * Introduction/The Disjunction of Realms: A Statement of Themes The Double Bind Of Modernity * The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism * The Disjunctions of Cultural Discourse * The Sensibility of the Sixties * Toward the Great Instauration: Religion and Culture in a Post-Industrial Age The Dilemmas Of The Polity * An Introductory Note: From the Culture to the Polity * Unstable America: Transitory and Permanent Factors in a National Crisis * The Public Household: On Fiscal Sociology and the Liberal Society * Afterword: 1996read more
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Modernization, cultural change, and the persistence of traditional values.
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Modernization, Cultural Change, and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence
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Endogenous Preferences: The Cultural Consequences of Markets and Other Economic Institutions
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors identify a number of ways in which the form of economic organization of a society appears to influence the process of human development by shaping tastes, the framing of choice situations, psychological dispositions, values, and other determinants of individual behavior.
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Notes on the Difficulty of Studying the State (1977)
TL;DR: The state is not the reality which stands behind the mask of political practice as discussed by the authors, but the mask which prevents us from seeing political practice as it is, it is itselfthe mask that prevents our seeing political practices as they are.
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Does Cultural Capital Structure American Consumption
TL;DR: In this article, a series of ethnographic interviews was conducted to investigate whether differences in cultural capital resources structure patterns of taste in a mideastern American county. But they found that consumption continues to serve as a potent site for the reproduction of social class, and suggested that the theory should be reformulated to focus on consumption practices rather than consumption objects and on mass rather than high culture.