BergerBennett. An Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure (University of California Press, 1995). Shows off recent efforts in the sociology of culture.
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BonnellVictoria E.HuntLynn, eds. Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (University of California Press, 1999). Historians and sociologists suggest paths of research that follow from the triumph of cultural constructionism.
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EliotT. S.. Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (Harcourt, Brace, 1949). A classic statement of culture as cultivation, including its frequently conservative implications.
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GeertzClifford. The Interpretation of Cultures (Basic Books, 1973). Perhaps the most influential work in the cultural turn of the social sciences.
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GusfieldJoseph R.. The Culture of Public Problems: Drinking, Driving and the Symbolic Order (University of Chicago Press, 1981). This book explores a number of aspects of meaning in the recognition and punishment of drunk driving.
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SahlinsMarshall. Culture and Practical Reason (University of Chicago Press, 1976). Another anthropologist influentially debunks materialist accounts of social life in favor of cultural approaches.
