4174 - Culture in the Plural

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Different theorizations of culture have converged on the insight that the cultural elements of which it is made do not constitute a seamless whole. Whether aspects of the web of meaning we construct cohere, and whether seemingly coherent bundles of meanings are internally organized according to some predictable rules of thumb, is an unsettled question. Whereas terms such as "repertoire" or "toolkit" are agnostic as to the question internal coherence, notions such as "regimes of worth," "cultural models," or "institutional logics" strongly argue for such internal ordering. The section invites submissions from scholars working on the question of the constituents and coherence (or lack thereof) of culture--both theoretically and empirically.

Sub Unit

• Section on Sociology of Culture / Culture in the Plural

Session Organizer

• Iddo Tavory, New York University

Individual Presentations

• Connecting the Private Self to the Public Sphere through Life-coaching in Neoliberal Israel - Ariel Yankellevich, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

• Culture as Cooperation: Garfinkel’s Interactionism as the Missing Piece of Parsons’ Conception of Culture - Anne Warfield Rawls, Bentley University and University of Siegen

• On Cultural Coherence - Paul J. DiMaggio, New York University; Sharon Cornelissen, Princeton University

• Organs without Bodies: Solid Organ Transplant Recipients' Exposure and Response to Institutional Discourse - Athena Engman, University of Toronto

Discussant

• Robin E. Wagner-Pacifici, The New School for Social Research