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While much social science literature has analyzed the cultural bases of social movement, activity, and the content of cultural production by social movements, relatively little has been written about the concrete social relations within which social movements do culture. This paper addresses the issue of what social movements are doing when they produce culture. Four dimensions of social relations within which culture is enacted are identified: the division of labor, the relations of power, tuning in, and embeddedness. A contrast between the how the People's Songsters Movement of the 1930s and 1940s and the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s used American folk music illustrates how variation in these dimensions affects the effects that cultural production had on social movement outcomes.

An analysis of the three waves of historical sociology, as discussed in the edited work Remaking Modernity: Politics, History and Sociology by various authors is presented. It is argued that it would be more sociological to treat the second wave and third wave as intellectual projects than time periods, and that the claims of intellectual projects are better analyzed by their effects on the field than by their self-definition.

DeNora, Tia. 2003. After Adorno: Rethinking Music Sociology. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. For musicologists who are interested in what sociologists of music have to contribute to the [...]

Music from the True Vine: Mike Seeger's Life and Musical Journey. By Bill C. Malone. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, c. 2011. Pp. [xiv], 235. $30.00, ISBN 978-0-8078-3510-4.) [...]

The establishment of laws concerning property were instrumental in the development of corporate capitalism from the late 1880s to the early 1900s. This was exemplified by actions around the New Jersey corporation law during this period, the end result being that corporations could purchase the stock of other corporations. Property rights were changed during the corporate revolution that created a new relationship between the state and the economy. The state became able to regulate the economy through corporate law, and the justice system institutionalized the laws that created the framework for the new economic system. The laws granted corporations the advantage of using the power of property to organize corporate giants.

Big Business and the State: Historical Transitions and Corporate Transformation, 1880s-1990s. Harland Prechel. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2000. 317 pp. $25.95, paper. For the last decade [...]

Ever since Marx depicted the French insurgency of 1848 and the Paris Commune of 1871 as the incubator of proletarian revolution, these two events have occupied a center stage in [...]

In the period 1886-1905, the U.S. Department of State became more bureaucratized. Content analysis of intradepartmental correspondence indicates this bureaucratization helped certain large industries' interests to become "vested" in the department, meaning that the department took these interests into account in policymaking and routine administration. (Author/RW)