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Sociology of culture and cultural practices : the transformative power of institutions /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fleury, Laurent (Author)
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2014]
Series:New directions in culture and governance.
Subjects:
Culture.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword: a new perspective / Terry Nichols Clark
  • Preface: an invitation to think about culture : an institutional approach
  • Sociologists and culture
  • Culture's publics
  • Explaining social and cultural hierarchies
  • The question of democratization of culture
  • Contemporary reorientations
  • The work of the institution : the democratization of culture in the light of the legacy of the TNP
  • The influence of mediation apparatuses on the structuring of cultural practices: the pompidou center's "correspondents"
  • The discourse of the "failure" of the democratization of culture : sociological observation or ideological assertion?.