Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface : the handbook -- Contemporary challenges for the sociology of art and culture : an introductory essay / Laurie Hanquinet and Mike Savage -- Bourdieu's legacy and new perspectives for the sociology of art and culture -- The sociology of cultural participation in France 30 years after "distinction" Phillipe Coulangeon -- A post-Bourdieusian sociology of valuation and evaluation for the field of cultural production / Stefan Beljean, Phillipa Chong, and Michèle Lamont -- Contesting culture : Bourdieu & the strong program in cultural sociology / Marco Santoro and Marco Solaroli -- The cultural omnivore thesis : methodological aspects of the debate / Irmak Karademir Hazir and Alan Warde -- After omnivorousness : is Bourdieu still relevant? / Omar Lizardo and Sara Skiles -- A critique of the Omnivore : from the origin of the idea of Omnivorousness to the Latin American experience / Modesto Gayo -- Age-period-cohort and cultural engagement / Aaron Reeve -- A social aesthetics as a general cultural sociology? / John Levi Martin and Ben Merriman -- Genre : relational approaches to the sociology of music / Jennifer C. Lena -- Networks and culture / Alix Rule and Peter Bearman -- Getting beyond the surface : using geometric data analysis in cultural sociology / Henk Roose -- The fabric of aesthetics -- From sociology of culture to sociology of artistic producers : how to become a contemporary artist / Nathalie Heinich -- Avant-garde artworks, artists and mediators : a state of relationships / Nuria Peist -- Learning how to think, and feel, about contemporary art : an object relational aesthetic for sociology / Sophia Krys Acord -- Museum sociology / Volker Kirchberg -- Adjusting field theory : the dynamics of settler-colonial art fields / Tony Bennett -- The world market of translation in the globalization era : symbolic capital and cultural diversity in the publishing field / Gisèle Sapiro -- The biennalization of art worlds : the culture of cultural events / Monica Sassatelli -- Aesthetic capital / Sylvia Holla and Giselinde Kuipers -- The complexity of cultural classifications -- Cultural dissonances : the social in the singular / Bernard Lahire -- The multiplicity of highbrow culture : taste boundaries among the new upper middle class, guy bellavance -- "There's something fundamental about what makes you laugh" : comedy as an aesthetic experience / Sam Friedman -- Middlebrow book culture / David Carter -- Digital sociology in the field of devices / Adrian Mackenzie, Richard Mills, Stuart Sharples, Matthew Fuller and Andrew Goffey -- Researching social analytics : cultural sociology in the face of algorithmic power / Nick Couldry -- The rising power of screens : changing cultural practices in France, from 1973 to 2008 / Olivier Donnat -- The structuration of lifestyle in the City of Porto : a relational approach / Virgílio Borges Pereira -- Contesting the highbrow and lowbrow distinction : how Latin American scholars engage in cross-cultural debates / María Luisa Méndez -- When the artistic field meets the arts worlds / Chao Zhang -- Institutionalizing the neo-Bohemia / Richard Lloyd.