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Bakhtin. Rabelais and His World (1968);
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Balfe, Judith Huggins (ed.) Paying the Piper: Causes and Consequences of Art Patronage (1993);
Barthes. The Fashion System (1967);
- Writing Degree Zero (1968);
- Mythologies (1972);
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- Image—Music—Text (1977);
- Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography (1981);
Bataille. Literature and Evil (1973);
Becker. Art Worlds (1982);
Bourdieu. Photography: The Social Uses of an Ordinary Art (1990);
- The Love of Art: European Art Museums and Their Public (1991);
- The Field of Cultural Production (1993);
- Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1984);
Derrida. The Truth in Painting 1987
Diana Crane, ed. Sociology of Culture (1994);
Elias. Mozart. Portrait of a Genius, Cambridge: Polity Press, 1993).
Fine. Talking Art (2018)
Foster, Arnold W., and Judith R. Blau (eds.) Art and Society: Readings in the Sociology of the Arts (1989);
Gans. Popular Culture and High Culture (1974);
Gilroy. Small Acts: Thoughts on the Politics of Black Cultures (1993);
- Darker Than Blue: On The Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Culture (2010).
Goldmann. Towards a Sociology of the Novel (1975);
- Cultural Creation in Modern Society (1976);
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Hall. The Popular Arts (1964);
Hoggart. Contemporary Cultural Studies (1969);
Kellner. Media Culture (1995, );
Lukács. The Theory of the Novel (1971);.
Marcuse. The Aesthetic Dimension: Toward a Critique of Marxist Aesthetics (1978).
Millet. The Politics of Cruelty: An Essay on the Literature of Political Imprisonment (1993).
Mumford. Art and Technics 1952
Nisbet. Sociology as an Art Form (1971);
Peterson, Richard A. (ed.) The Production of Culture (1976);
Plekhanov. Art and Social Life (1912–1913)
Said. Literature and Society (1980);
- Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature (1998);
Sadgwick. Between Men: English Literature and Male Homosocial Desire (1985);
- Novel Gazing: Queer Readings in Fiction (1997);
Sorokin. Social and Cultural Dynamics, 4 vols. (1937-1941);
Spivak. An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (2012);
Virilio. The Accident of Art (2005):
Weber A. Kulturgeschichte als Kultursoziologie (1935);
White, Harrison C., and Cynthia A. White. Canvasses and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World (1965);
Williams. Drama from Ibsen to Brecht (1961);
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Willis. Culture, Media, Language (1980);
Wilson, Robert N. (ed.) The Arts in Society (1964);
Zolberg, Vera L. Constructing a Sociology of the Arts (1990).