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Sociology On Culture
Paperback Edition: 1/2003
Culture has become a touchstone of interdisciplinary conversation. For readers interested in sociology, the social sciences and the humanities, this book maps major classical and contemporary analyses and controversies about culture in relation to social processes, everyday life and axes of ordering and difference such
as race, class and gender. Hall, Neitz, and Battani discuss: self and identity; stratification; the "Other"; the cultural histories of modernity and postmodernity; culture and power; production of culture; the problem of the audience; and action, social movements, and change. The text pays little respect to boundaries, drawing on diverse intellectual perspectives and a variety of topics about culture and the arts, for various historical time periods and regions of the world. The authors advocate cultivating the sociological imagination by engaging myriad languages and perspectives of the social sciences and humanities, while cultivating cultural studies by developing the sociological imagination.
Contents:
Part I Culture and society: culture, self and society; social stratification and culture. Part II Cultural structurations and modernity: cultural constructions of "the Other"; preindustrial sources of contemporary culture; industrialism and mass culture; deconstructing the postmodern. Part III Cultural forms, processes and change: power and culture; the production of culture; cultural objects, audiences and meaning; culture, action and change.
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Contents:
Part I Culture and society: culture, self and society; social stratification and culture. Part II Cultural structurations and modernity: cultural constructions of "the Other"; preindustrial sources of contemporary culture; industrialism and mass culture; deconstructing the postmodern. Part III Cultural forms, processes and change: power and culture; the production of culture; cultural objects, audiences and meaning; culture, action and change.
Pages : 292
Publisher : Routledge
Subjects: Non-fiction, Social Sciences, Sociology, Cultural Studies