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Rethinking comparative cultural sociology : repertoires of evaluation in France and the United States / edited by Michèle Lamont and Laurent Thévenot.

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Rethinking comparative cultural sociology : repertoires of evaluation in France and the United States / edited by Michèle Lamont and Laurent Thévenot.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors
  • Lamont, Michèle, 1957-
  • Thévenot, Laurent.
Description
xv, 375 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Cambridge cultural social studies
Uniform Title
Cambridge cultural social studies.
Subject
  • Cognition and culture > France > Case studies
  • Cognition and culture > United States > Case studies
  • Evaluation > Cross-cultural studies
  • Evaluation > France > Case studies
  • Evaluation > United States > Case studies
  • Sociology > Comparative method > Case studies
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 328-366) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : Toward a renewed comparative cultural sociology / Michèle Lamont and Laurent Thévenot -- The rhetorics of racism and anti-racism in France and the United States / Michèle Lamont -- Sexual harassment in France and the United States : activists and public figures defend their definitions / Abigail Cope Saguy -- Assessing the literary : intellectual boundaries in French and American literary studies / Jason Duell -- Culture or commerce? Symbolic boundaries in French and American book publishing / Daniel Weber -- Involvement and detachment among French and American journalists : to be or not to be a "real" professional / Cyril Lemieux and John Schmalzbauer -- From rejection of contemporary art to culture war / Nathalie Heinich -- Community and civic culture : the Rotary Club in France and the United States / Agnès Camus-Vigué -- Forms of valuing nature : arguments and modes of justification in French and American environmental disputes / Laurent Thévenot, Michael Moody and Claudette Lafaye -- Comparing models of strategy, interests, and the public good in French and American environmental disputes / Michael Moody and Laurent Thévenot -- Conclusion : Exploring the French and the American polity / Laurent Thévenot and Michèle Lamont.
ISBN
  • 0521782635
  • 0521787947 (pbk)
  • 2735108678 (France only)
LCCN
^^^99462248^
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library