Cultivating Differences

1 Introduction, Michele Lamont and Marcel Fournier
Part One: The Institutionalization of Cultural Categories
2 Cultural Boundaries and Structural Change: The Extension
of the High Culture Model to Theater, Opera, and the Dance, 1900-1940, Paul DiMaggio
3 High Culture versus Popular Culture Revisited: A
Reconceptualization of Recorded Cultures, Diana Crane
4 Nature's Body and the Metaphors of Food, Joseph R. Gusfield
5 Constructing a Shifting Moral Boundary: Literature and
Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century America, Nicola Beisel
Part Two: High Culture and Exclusion
6 The Audience for Abstract Art: Class, Culture, and Power, David Halle
7 How Musical Tastes Mark Occupational Status Groups, Richard A. Peterson and Albert Simkus
8 Barrier or Leveler? The Case of the Art Museum, Vera L. Zolberg
Part Three: Resources for Boundary Work: The Case of Gender and Ethnicity
9 Women and the Production of Status Cultures, Randall Collins
10 Tinkerbells and Pinups: The Construction and Reconstruction
of Gender Boundaries at Work, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein
11 The Capital(s) of Cultures: A Nonholistic Approach to
Status Situations, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity, John R. Hall
Part Four: Exclusion of the Polity
12 Citizen and Enemy as Symbolic Classification: On the
Polarizing Discourse of Civil Society, Jeffrey C. Alexander
13 Democracy versus Sociology: Boundaries and Their Political
Consequences, Alan Wolfe