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

By: Michèle Lamont

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521787947
• ISBN13: 9780521787949
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"