Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Culture as structure and meaning
- 2 The American cultural landscape
- 3 Reproduction and decline
- 4 Co-occurrence, tipping in, and bridging
- 5 Organizational assembly and disassembly
- 6 Increasing returns on diminishing artists
- 7 A little more on the hobby horse
- 8 Masses and classes
- 9 The transformation of American culture
- Appendix A List of SMSAs and 1970 population in 100s
- Appendix B Sources and descriptions of cultural indicators
- Appendix C Log transformation
- Appendix D Polynomial term
- Index
- Other books in the series
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Culture as structure and meaning
- 2 The American cultural landscape
- 3 Reproduction and decline
- 4 Co-occurrence, tipping in, and bridging
- 5 Organizational assembly and disassembly
- 6 Increasing returns on diminishing artists
- 7 A little more on the hobby horse
- 8 Masses and classes
- 9 The transformation of American culture
- Appendix A List of SMSAs and 1970 population in 100s
- Appendix B Sources and descriptions of cultural indicators
- Appendix C Log transformation
- Appendix D Polynomial term
- Index
- Other books in the series
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- The Shape of CultureA Study of Contemporary Cultural Patterns in the United States, pp. 197 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1989