Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology: Repertoires of Evaluation in France and the United States

This book provides a powerful new theoretical framework for understanding cross-national cultural differences. Researchers from France and America present eight comparative case studies to demonstrate how the people of these two different cultures mobilize national repertoires of evaluation to make judgments about politics, economics, morals and aesthetics. This approach goes beyond essentialist models of national character to compare varying attitudes on topics ranging from racism and sexual harrassment to identity politics, publishing, journalism, the arts and the environment. The book will appeal to sociologists, political scientists and anthropologists alike.

Author: Michèle Lamont
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/11/2000
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.81d
ISBN: 9780521787949