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PREFACE ix

PART ONE: THEORY OF CULTURE

1
Culture: Coherent or Incoherent
NeilJ. Smelser 3

2
The Cultic Roots of Culture
Eugene Halton 29

3
The Order-maintaining and Order-transforming Dimensions of Culture
S.N.Eisenstadt 64

4
The Concept of Culture and Its Place within a Theory of Social Action: A Critique of Talcott Parsons's Theory of Culture
Michael Schmid 88

5
Representative Culture and Cultural Representation
Johannes Weiss 121

6
Infrastructure and Superstructure: Revisions in Marxist Sociology of Culture
Robert Wuthnow 145

PART TWO: CULTURE, COLLECTIVE PURPOSE, AND POLITY

7
Collective Purpose and Culture: Findings and Implications from Some Studies of Societies
Guy E.Swanson 173

8
Social Norms in the Institutional Culture of the German Federal Parliament
Renate Mayntz 219

PART THREE: CULTURE, INEQUALITY, AND LIFE-STYLE

9
The Production and Reproduction of Inequality: A Theoretical Cultural Analysis
Richard, Munch 243

10
Cultural Production, Consumption, and the Development of the Cultural Sphere
Mike Featherstone 265

PART FOUR: CULTURE, TECHNOLOGY, AND WORK

11
The Promise of a Cultural Sociology: Technological Discourse and the Sacred and Profane Information Machine
Jeffrey C. Alexander 293

12
Culture and the Locus of Work in Contemporary Western Germany: A Weberian Configurational Analysis
Stephen Kalberg 324

13
Culture and Crisis: Making Sense of the Crisis of the Work Society
Klaus Eder 366

INDEX 401