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This collection of high quality, largely previously published essays, analyses a range of controversies in the field of the sociology of culture and consumption. Campbell made a major contribution to the development of this field and he has a clear and coherent theoretical position which he employs to comment on interesting disputes among scholars seeking to understand consumer culture. Containing a brand new expansive essay reflecting on consumption in the age of a pandemic and drawing out some of the conceptual and practical implications of the relationship between wants and needs, science and norms, this synthesis will be an invaluable resource for students and researchers of consumption, consumer and cultural sociology.

1. Who Now Reads Ginsberg? -- 2. 'Sociologists Eat Each Other' -- 3. Sociological Groundhog Day -- 4. Slash and Burn Sociology -- 5. The Death of Scholarship -- 6. The Collapse of the Ivory Tower -- 7. Sociology as 'Just an Academic Pursuit' -- 8. Sociological Turn-taking -- 9. Sociology, A Work in Progress?

Intro -- Dedication -- Series Editor's Preface -- Contents -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The Romantic Ethic 30 Years On-Reflections on the Nature and Reception of a Weberian Thesis -- Background -- Initial Reception -- This Is an Essay -- Misunderstanding Matters -- A Theory of Motivated Conduct -- Rejecting Mono-Motive Theories -- How Ideas Become a Force for Change -- The Importance of the Concept of Character -- Character-Confirming Conduct: How Ideas Bring About Change -- Overcoming Tradition -- The Autonomous Consumer: Or Actors and Agents -- Bringing Weber Up to Date -- A Cyclical Theory of Cultural Change -- Summary: A Footnote to Weber -- Action as Subjectively Meaningful Behaviour -- Introduction to the First Edition -- In the Footsteps of Weber -- References -- Part I: The Spirit of Modern Consumerism -- Chapter 2: Accounting for the Consumer Revolution in Eighteenth-Century England -- Consumption and Cultural Change -- The Problem of Justification -- Consumption and the Protestant Ethic -- Chapter 3: The Puzzle of Modern Consumerism -- Instinctivism -- Manipulationism -- The Veblenesque Perspective -- Chapter 4: Traditional and Modern Hedonism -- A Theory of Hedonistic Conduct -- Traditional Hedonism -- The Growth of Modern Hedonism -- Chapter 5: Modern Autonomous Imaginative Hedonism -- The Generation of Longing -- The Spirit of Modern Consumerism -- Part II: The Romantic Ethic -- Chapter 6: The Other Protestant Ethic -- Protestantism and Pleasure -- Weber on Theodicy -- The Doctrine of Predestination and the Cambridge Platonists -- Deism and the Theology of Benevolence -- Calvinism and Emotion -- An Alternative Doctrine of Signs -- From Calvinism to Sentimentalism -- Chapter 7: The Ethic of Feeling -- The Cult of Sensibility -- Sense and Sensibility -- A Middle-Classicist Aesthetic -- A Matter of Taste.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- The origins of a critique -- The dogma of social situationalism -- An outline of the book -- The author's position -- A final caveat -- 2 Action reported missing in action theory -- What is action theory? -- Action theory outside sociology -- Contemporary action theory in sociology -- 3 Action and social action -- Change in subject-matter -- 4 Action versus social action -- 5 The rise of social situationalism -- Social situationalism: the paradigm -- Situationalism: the new orthodoxy -- 6 The argument by denial -- 7 Accounts and actions -- Actions and motives -- Accounts and actions: some contradictions -- 8 The argument by exclusion -- Exclusive paradigms or exclusive phenomena? -- 9 The argument through incorporation -- The 'all meaning is social' thesis -- 10 The'learning everything from others'thesis -- Learning from experience -- 11 The communicative act paradigm -- Rules and meaning: the logical connection -- Is there any need to know other minds? -- 12 The linguistic turn for the worse -- Boundary disputes -- Meaning and use -- Denotative meaning -- Talk is (not really) action too -- 13 The myth of social action -- 14 The obstacle which is social situationalism -- The lost soul of interpretivism -- The image of the actor -- 15 Epilogue: bringing action back in -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Winner of the Richard Neustadt Award of the American Political Science Association Campbell focuses on the institutional development of the presidency, and its advisers and staff, and assesses the Carter and Regan administrations within historical context.

1 The Fuel We Waste -- 2 Ignition -- 3 Carburation -- 4 Testing -- 5 Tuning -- 6 Variable Venturi Carburetters -- 7 Fixed Venturi Carburetters -- 8 Proprietary Tuning Kits -- 9 Electronic Ignition Kits -- 10 Bolt-on Aids to Economy -- 11 Driving for Economy -- Appendix Suppliers' Names and Addresses.

1 Wheels and tyres -- 2 Springs -- 3 Suspension principles -- 4 Suspension geometry -- 5 Conventional systems -- 6 Road-holding -- 7 Dampers -- 8 Pneumatic suspensions -- 9 Hydropneumatic suspensions -- 10 Interconnected and no-roll suspensions -- 11 A small FWD saloon car: Ford Fiesta S -- 12 A high-performance sports car: Porsche 928.

1 The Development of the Sports Car -- Motor sport -- The sports car -- The history of the sports car -- The first sports car -- The fabulous years -- Historic sports cars -- The future of the sports car -- 2 The Engine: Combustion -- Cylinder head history -- Combustion chamber research -- Volumetric efficiency -- Knock -- Limiting compression ratio -- Types of combustion chamber -- 3 The Engine: Induction and Exhaust -- The induction system -- The 4-cylinder in-line engine -- The 6-cylinder in-line engine -- The V-8 engine -- Ramming induction pipes -- Ramming pipe theory -- Forward-ram intakes -- Cold-air intakes -- The exhaust system -- The silencer -- Ramming exhaust pipes -- Branched exhaust pipes -- 4 The Engine: Valve Gear -- Push-rod valve operation -- Double overhead valve operation -- Single overhead camshaft head -- The four-valve head -- Desmodromic operation -- 5 The Engine: Fuel Metering -- The carburettor -- The S.U. principle -- The H.I.F. model -- Fuel injection -- Lucas electronic fuel injection -- Bosch K-Jetronic mechanical system -- 6 The Engine: Miscellaneous Components -- The crankcase -- The crankshaft -- Crankshaft bearings: bearing pressures: bearing materials -- General lubrication -- Pistons -- Cooling: air cooling: water cooling -- The ignition system: sparking plugs: the conventional coil ignition: new ignition developments -- 7 Road-Holding -- Tyres: the grip on the road: the tyre footprint -- Cornering power -- Tyre construction -- Aquaplaning -- Cornering behaviour: oversteer and understeer: rear wheel drive: front wheel drive: braking -- The mid-engined sports car -- Factors leading to understeer -- 8 The Suspension -- Springs -- Pitching -- Independent suspension -- Shimmy and tramp -- Representative designs: Jaguar, Porsche, Datsun, Aston Martin -- The suspension damper: double-tube damper: single tube damper -- 9 The Chassis, Frame and Body -- Materials -- Torsional stiffness -- The tubular frame -- Unitary body-chassis construction -- The backbone chassis -- The shape of the body: drag coefficients, lift at high speed, the air dam, directional stability at high speed -- 10 The Transmission -- Torque multiplication -- The gear ratios -- The overdrive -- Synchromesh -- The automatic transmission -- The clutch -- The final drive -- Universal joints -- The limited slip differential -- 11 The Brakes -- The grip on the road -- Braking forces -- Weight transference under braking -- Brake fade -- Disc brakes: disc brakes for the high-speed sports car, pad materials -- 12 Performance -- Standards of performance -- The meaning of power -- Acceleration: acceleration times for 0–60 m.p.h., the concept of effective mass -- Maximum speed -- 13 The Sports Car in the Future -- The Engine: promising alternatives, the gas turbine, rotating combustion engines, the Diesel engine, the Stirling engine, the steam engine -- Petrol engine developments: stratified charge: turbocharging: air fuel ratio control -- The transmission -- Tyres and suspension: no-roll suspension -- Braking -- The long-life car -- 14 Design Studies -- The Jaguar -- The Lotus -- The Mercedes -- The Porsche.