摘要: After a period of interdisciplinary openness, contemporary sociology has only recently rediscovered culture. This is especially true political sociology, where institutional and network analyses, as well rational choice models, have dominated. article will offer another approach by focusing on the role music visual arts in relation to formation collective identity, memory action. Drawing my own research Civil Rights movement United States slavery African-American its opposite, place white power neo-fascist movements, I outline model culture more than mobilization resource mediators.