Sociology of Culture

Berger, Peter and Thomas Luckmann. The Social Construction of Reality. New York: Anchor, 1967.

Bourdieu, Pierre. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Cambridge: Cambridege University Press, 1977, chs. 2. ("Structures and the Habitus"), 4 ("Structures, Habitus, Power: Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power").

Comaroff, John and Jean. Ethnography and the Historical Imagination. Boulder: Westview Press, 1992, pp. 3-67.

Douglas, Mary. Purity and Danger. Penguin, 1970, pp. 54-72, "Abominations of Leviticus."

Durkheim, Emile. The Elementary Forms of Religious Life. New York: Free Press, 1995 (orig. 1912). "Introduction"; book 1, ch. 1; book 2, ch. 7; book 3, chs. 1, 4; "Conclusion."

Evans Pritchard, E.E. Witchcraft, Oracles, and Magic among the Azade. Oxford, 1976, 1-32.

Geertz, Clifford. "Religion as a Cultural System" and "Deep Play: Notes on a Balinese Cockfight." in The Interpretation of Cultures. New York: Basic Books, 1973, ch. 15 (pp. 412-53).

Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York: Anchor, 1959, pp. 1-76.

Goffman, Erving. Frame Analysis. New York: Harper, 1974, 1-39.

Levi-Strauss, Claude. Structural Anthropology. New York: Anchor, 1967, pp. 202-228, "Structural Study of Myth."

Marx, Karl. Theses on Feuerback; German Ideology. (See Theory list).

Sahlins, Marshall. Islands of History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1985, 1-31, 136-156.

Swidler, Ann. "Culture in Action: Symbols and Strategies." American Sociological Review 51 (1986): 273-86.

Turner, Victor. "Liminality and Communitas." in The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-Structure. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969, pp. 94-130.

Weber, Max. "Objectivity in Social Science and Social Policy." (See Theory list).

Weber, Max. "Science as a Vocation." (See Theory list).

Williams, Raymond. "Base and Superstructure in Marxist Cultural Theory." New Left Review 82 (November/December 1982).