1 Culture as Object and Approach in Sociology Isaac Reed; Part I: Cultural Approaches to Society; 2 "A Special Camaraderie with Colleagues": Business Associations and Cultural Production for Economic Action Lyn Spillman; 3 Organization-Based Legitimacy: Core Ideologies and Moral Action Jerry Goodstein, Mary Blair-Loy, Amy Wharton; 4 Moral Regulation: Beyond Janet Jackson and "The Passion" Kenneth Thompson; 5 The Social and the Aesthetic: Methodological Principles in the Study of Cultural Production Georgina Born; Part II: On Abstraction and Interpretation: The Beirnacki-Evans Debate; 6 After Quantitative Cultural Sociology: Interpretive Science as a Calling Richard Biernacki; 7 Two Worlds in Cultural Sociology John H. Evans; 8 The Banality of Misrepresentation Richard Biernacki; 9 Impervious to Disconfirming Data John H. Evans; Lyn Spillman is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Notre Dame.; Mary Blair-Loy is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California-San Diego.; Jerry Goodstein is Associate Professor of Management and Decision Sciences at Washington State University-Vancouver.; Kenneth Thompson is Professor of Sociology at the Open University, UK.; Georgina Born is Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Music at the University of Cambridge, UK.; Richard Biernacki is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California-San Diego.

; John H. Evans is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of California-San Diego.