Introduction: Sociology and Art History
1. Marxism and art history
1a. Social Being and Social Consciousness / Karl Marx
1b. Art and Ideology / Karl Marx
1c. Historical Development and Cultural Traditions / Karl Marx
2. Art and cultural rationalization
2a. Magical Religion, Salvation Religion and the Evolution of Art / Max Weber
2b. Tensions Between Art and Ethical Religion / Max Weber
2c. Art and Rationalization in the Western World / Max Weber
3. Symmetry and Social Organization / Georg Simmel
4. Social structure, material culture and symbolic communication
4a. Symbolic Meaning and Objectification / Emile Durkheim
4b. Symbolic Objects, Communicative Interaction and Social Creativity / Emile Durkheim
5. Marxism and the social production of art
5a. Productive Forces / Raymond Williams
5b. From Reflection to Meditation / Raymond Williams
6. Art as Collective Action / Howard S. Becker
7. But Who Created the 'Creators'? / Pierre Bourdieu
8. Social Status of the Renaissance Artist / Arnold Hauser
9. Van Gogh Effect / Natalie Heinich
10. Craftsmen's Art and Artists' Art / Norbert Elias
11. Material Agency and the Art of Artifacts / David Brain
12. Art Criticism and the Institutions of the Public Sphere / Jurgen Habermas
13. Outline of a Sociological Theory of Art Perception / Pierre Bourdieu
14. Cultural Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth-Century Boston: The Creation of an Organizational Base for High Culture in America / Paul DiMaggio
15. Conflicting Visions in American Art museums / Vera L. Zolberg
16. Dynamics of Spiritual Realities / Karl Mannheim
17. Van Eyck Through the Looking Glass / Robert Witkin
18. Art as expressive symbolism: action theory and the sociology of art
18a. Expressive Symbolism and Social Interaction / Talcott Parsons
18b. Cultural Elaboration of Expressive Meanings and the Evolution of Art / Talcott Parsons.
