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PhD Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Masters Sociology University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors Sociology University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, Richard Austin Peterson was an American sociologist and Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Vanderbilt University. Early life and education Richard Peterson was born in Mussoorie, British India, where his father was a missionary. He graduated from Oberlin College with a bachelor's, and attended graduate school at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, where he worked with the sociologist Alvin Gouldner and completed his PhD in 1962 In 1965, Peterson received a job in the sociology department at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. It was there that he began to study the country music scene in-depth.

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CHANGING HIGHBROW TASTE: FROM SNOB TO OMNIVORE* (1996) (1920)
Understanding audience segmentation: From elite and mass to omnivore and univore (1992) (853)
Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity (1998) (639)
THE PRODUCTION OF CULTURE PERSPECTIVE (2004) (601)
Cycles in Symbol Production: The Case of Popular Music (1975) (547)
Problems in comparative research: The example of omnivorousness (2005) (491)
In Search of Authenticity (2005) (403)
Entrepreneurship in Organizations: Evidence from the Popular Music Industry (1971) (362)
When Market Information Constitutes Fields: Sensemaking of Markets in the Commercial Music Industry (2000) (314)
Music Scenes: Local, Translocal, and Virtual (2011) (311)
The Production of Culture (1976) (289)
Classification as Culture: Types and Trajectories of Music Genres (2008) (274)
The rise and fall of highbrow snobbery as a status marker (1997) (222)
Why 1955? Explaining the advent of rock music (1990) (208)
Revitalizing the Culture Concept (1979) (188)
From Region to Class, The Changing Locus of Country Music: A Test of the Massification Hypothesis (1975) (128)
Five Constraints on the Production of Culture: Law, Technology, Market, Organizational Structure and Occupational Careers* (1982) (86)
Measuring Industry Concentration, Diversity, and Innovation in Popular Music (1996) (83)
Sociology of the Arts (2004) (65)
Six constraints on the production of literary works (1985) (57)
The Poor Pay More: Consumer Practices of Low-Income Families. (1964) (53)
CULTURE IN ACTION : SYMBOLS AND (1986) (50)
The instability of omnivorous cultural taste over time (2015) (49)
The Simplex Located in Art Worlds (1979) (44)
Patterns of Cultural Choice (1983) (42)
Isolating Cultural Choice Patterns in the U.S. Population (1983) (41)
The Pyramid Climbers. (1963) (37)
The sounds of social change : studies in popular culture (1975) (36)
System, Change, and Conflict: A Reader on Contemporary Sociological Theory and the Debate Over Functionalism. (1968) (32)
Two ways culture is produced (2000) (32)
You wrote my life : lyrical themes in country music (1994) (26)
Alternative country: Origins, music, world‐view, fans, and taste in genre formation (2001) (25)
Labor organizations : a macro- and micro-sociological analysis on a comparative basis (1970) (23)
The Industrial Order and Social Policy. (1973) (23)
Comment on Chan and Goldthorpe: Omnivore, what's in a name, what's in a measure? (2007) (21)
The contemporary American radio audience (1974) (20)
Mass Culture Revisited (1971) (19)
Age and Arts Participation With a Focus on the Baby Boom Cohort (1996) (17)
Revolution at the Library Service Desk (2008) (17)
Stabilities in Deviance: A Study of Assaultive and Non-Assaultive Offenders (1962) (17)
The unnatural history of rock festivals: An instance of media facilitation (1973) (16)
The LibQUAL+(™) Challenge (2004) (15)
La fabrication de l'authenticité [La country music] (1992) (15)
Comparative research on cultural production and consumption (2005) (15)
Measuring culture leisure and time use. (1981) (14)
Millhands & preachers : a study of Gastonia (1942) (14)
Changing representation of status through taste displays: An introduction (1997) (14)
Dimensions of Social Character: An Empirical Exploration of the Riesman Typology (1964) (13)
Elements of Simplex Structure (1981) (12)
Data-Driven Collection Management: Through Crisis Emerge Opportunities (2010) (12)
Types and Trajectories of Music Genres (2008) (12)
The Disembodied Muse: Music in the Internet Age (2004) (12)
Politically Purposed Music Genres (2011) (12)
Taking Popular Music too Seriously (1970) (11)
Age Factors in Arts Participation: 1982-1992. (1995) (11)
The Dialectic of Hard-Core and Soft-Shell Country Music (1995) (11)
Popular music is plural (1997) (10)
Sociology and Society: The Case of South Africa* (1966) (9)
Where the Two Cultures Meet: Popular Culture (1977) (9)
Traveling the High Way Home: Ralph Stanley and the World of Traditional Bluegrass Music. (1995) (9)
Editorial comment: market and moralist censors of a rising art form: jazz (1967) (8)
System, Change and Conflict: A Reader on Contemporary Sociological Theory and the Debate over Functionalism. (1968) (7)
Roll Over Beethoven, there's a New way to be Cool (2002) (7)
Symbols and Social Life: The Growth of Cultural Studies (1990) (7)
Organizational Intelligence: Knowledge and Policy in Government and Industry. By Harold L. Wilensky. New York: Basic Books, 1967. 226 pp. $5.95 (1968) (7)
Arts Audience Statistics and Culture Indicators: A Review of Complementary Approaches. (1980) (6)
Hoffa and the Teamsters. (1966) (6)
The scenes perspective and the Australian context (2008) (6)
Media preferences of sexually active and inactive youth (1995) (5)
The BBC: Public Institution and Private World.@@@Social Research on Broadcasting: Proposals for Further Development. (1978) (5)
Chapter 8 (1981) (4)
Human relations in management : a behavioral science approach : philosophy, analysis, and issues (1962) (4)
Making music sociology: an introduction (2004) (3)
Audiences — and all that jazz (1964) (3)
Single-industry firm to conglomerate synergistics : alternative strategies for selling insurance and country music (1976) (3)
A Technique for the Detection of Blind Checking in Questionnaire Research (1961) (3)
THE NEW INTERCITY BUS INDUSTRY: INNOVATIVE OPERATING AND MARKETING STRATEGIES (1985) (2)
Selective Versus Passive Television Viewing (1986) (2)
Handbook of Modern Sociology. Edited by Robert E. L. Faris. Chicago: Rand McNally & Company, 1964. 1088 pp. Tables, maps, and graphs. $17.50 (1965) (2)
Simplex: A Mathematical Model for the Analysis of Social Change* (1964) (2)
Globalization and communalization of music in the production perspective (2017) (2)
Dealing with Journal Cuts — When the Sky's Not the Limit (2005) (2)
Going Green: One Library's Journey Toward Sustainability (2014) (2)
:The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry.(Refiguring American Music.) (2009) (2)
Culture, Production of (2001) (2)
AMERICANS' ATTITUDES TOWARDS CULTURAL DIVERSITY AND CULTURAL AUTHORITY: CULTURE WARS, SOCIAL CLOSURE, OR MULTIPLE DIMENSIONS? GSS Topical Report No.27 (2004) (2)
Structural Determinants of Piecework Rates (1964) (1)
Art and government (1976) (1)
Book Review:Social Control in an African Society. Philip H. Gulliver (1963) (1)
The Subsidized Muse: Public Support for the Arts in the United States. Dick NetzerTwigs for an Eagle's Nest: Government and the Arts, 1965-1978. Michael Straight (1980) (1)
Comment on Steeman's Durkheim's Professional Ethics (1963) (1)
Iowa emergency medical services law: EDNA involved in legislative process. (1984) (1)
THE GREAT PLAINS AS A NATURAL REGION: THE BASICS (2001) (1)
Review Essay : Advances in Content Analysis (1982) (1)
The dynamics of industrial society (1973) (1)
The Role of Research in Developing Cultural Policy (1983) (1)
Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry.Robert R. Faulkner (1984) (1)
Birds of the Nebraska Sandhills : Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest and Nebraska National Forest (Bessey Ranger District). (1993) (1)
The Wages of Writing: Per Word, Per Piece, or Perhaps.By Paul William Kingston and Jonathan R. Cole. Columbia University Press. 209 pp. $29.50 (1988) (1)
Lonesome Cowgirls and Honky-Tonk Angles: The Women of Barn Dance Radio (review) (2011) (0)
Book Reviews (1984) (0)
Use study of Excerpta Medica abstract journals: to drop or not to drop? (1983) (0)
Orientations to the Resolution of Inter-Personal Tension (1961) (0)
Obituary: R. Serge Denisoff (1995) (0)
David Vincent, Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750-1914. Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 362, $49.50 (cloth) (1991) (0)
Diane Pecknold. The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry. (Refiguring American Music.) Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. 2007. Pp. x, 294. Cloth $79.95, paper $22.95 (2009) (0)
Industrial Participation (Theory and Practice: A Case Study)@@@Notes on Technology and the Moral Order (1964) (0)
Birds of the Nebraska Pine Ridge (1993) (0)
Book Reviews : David Vincent, Literacy and Popular Culture: England 1750-1914. Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 362, $49.50 (cloth) (1991) (0)
VU sociologists analyze American music forms and their changes over time (2009) (0)
You Wrote My Life: Lyrical Themes in Country Music. Cultural Perspectives on the American South. Volume VI. (1994) (0)
Framing Your Options: Seeing the World in Black and White (2012) (0)
Organizations as Bargaining and Influence Systems.Edited by Peter Abell. New York: Halsted, 1975. 189 pp. $14.95 (1977) (0)
Education, Manpower, and Economic Growth: Strategies of Human Resource Development.Frederick Harbison , Charles A. Myers (1965) (0)
[abstract] RECOMMENDED KEY WORDS FOR UNDERSEA AND HYPERBARIC MEDICAL LITERATURE. (2007) (0)
Nashville and America in one dimension (1976) (0)
Book Review:The Technological Order: The Proceedings of the "Encyclopedia Britannica" Conference. Karl Stover (1963) (0)
Sing a Song of Social Significance.@@@The Sounds of Social Change: Studies in Popular Culture. (1974) (0)
Fine Work: The Place of Gary Fine's: Everyday Genius in his Line of Ethnographic Studies (2006) (0)
The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rocknroll in American Popular Music.Philip H. Ennis (1994) (0)
Fascination with 'the Other': Are the French Different? (1994) (0)
Age, Sex, and Culture: Risk Taking around the World (2012) (0)
The Dynamics of a Changing Technology. (1965) (0)
Bluegrass: a History . By Neil Rosenberg. Urbana & London: University of Illinois Press, 1985. 447 pp. - Bluegrass Breakdown . By Robert Cantwell. Urbana & London: University of Illinois Press, 1985. 308 pp. (1987) (0)
MEANING AND CONTROL: ESSAYS IN SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. Edited by D. O. Edge and J. N. Wolfe. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973, 274 pp. $13.50 (1974) (0)
Book Review: Organizational Behavior: The Social Psychology of Organizations (1967) (0)
So Lonesome: Hank Williams and the Creation of Country Music (2013) (0)
Birds of the Nebraska Pine Ridge : Nebraska National Forest (Pine Ridge Ranger District) and Oglala National Grassland. (1993) (0)
Technology: Master, servant, or model for human dignity?∗ (1971) (0)
Commentary and Debate (2010) (0)
Statewide Service Continuity in Disasters (2010) (0)
When Is It Great Art and When Is It a Travesty (2007) (0)
Notables of Mid Century: How They Were Viewed (1966) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2010) (0)
The Dynamics of M15 (1989) (0)
Book ReviewsConsumption and Identity at Work. By Paul du Gay. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996. Pp. vi + 213. $65.00 (cloth); $22.95 (paper). (1997) (0)

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