Description: 1 Introduction, Michele Lamont and Marcel Fournier Part One: The Institutionalization of Cultural Categories 2 Cultural Boundaries and Structural Change: The Extension of the High Culture Model to Theater, Opera, and the Dance, 1900-1940, Paul DiMaggio 3 High Culture versus Popular Culture Revisited: A Reconceptualization of Recorded Cultures, Diana Crane 4 Nature's Body and the Metaphors of Food, Joseph R. Gusfield 5 Constructing a Shifting Moral Boundary: Literature and Obscenity in Nineteenth-Century America, Nicola Beisel Part Two: High Culture and Exclusion 6 The Audience for Abstract Art: Class, Culture, and Power, David Halle 7 How Musical Tastes Mark Occupational Status Groups, Richard A. Peterson and Albert Simkus 8 Barrier or Leveler? The Case of the Art Museum, Vera L. Zolberg Part Three: Resources for Boundary Work: The Case of Gender and Ethnicity 9 Women and the Production of Status Cultures, Randall Collins 10 Tinkerbells and Pinups: The Construction and Reconstruction of Gender Boundaries at Work, Cynthia Fuchs Epstein 11 The Capital(s) of Cultures: A Nonholistic Approach to Status Situations, Class, Gender, and Ethnicity, John R. Hall Part Four: Exclusion of the Polity 12 Citizen and Enemy as Symbolic Classification: On the Polarizing Discourse of Civil Society, Jeffrey C. Alexander 13 Democracy versus Sociology: Boundaries and Their Political Consequences, Alan Wolfe

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