The readings you (undergrads) need to know: William Sewell jr., The Concept(s) of Culture (email) Philip Smith, Introduction: What is Culture ? What is Cultural Theory? (Smith I) Lynn Spillman, Introduction: Culture and Cultural Sociology (Spillman) Richard Harvey Brown, Textuality and the Postmodern Turn in Sociological Theory (Smith II) Philip Smith, 37-57 (Smith I) Raymond Williams, Base and Superstructure (Spillman) Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno, "The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception" (Spillman) Habermas, Jurgen, "On Systematically Distorted Communication" Philip Smith, 13-18 (Smith) Max Weber, "The Social Psychology of the World Religions" (email) Max Weber, "The Protestant Sects and the Spirit of Capitalism" (email) Bryan Turner, Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses (email) Samuel Huntington, Cultures Count and Lawrence Harrison, Why Culture Matters Ruth Benedict, "The Diversity of Cultures" (Spill