Cultural Theory
An Introduction
2nd Edition
Published on 25. July 2008
Book
Hardback
318 pages
978-1-4051-6908-0 (ISBN)
Description
This second edition of the renowned Cultural Theory provides a systematic and accessible introduction to cultural theory, encapsulating a usually complex field in a concise and balanced overview.
This fully revised and expanded second edition provides a comprehensive tour of the major figures, themes, and debates in cultural theory, from Durkheim and Weber through to Foucault and Butler, and from charisma to consumption, but also introduces entirely new chapters on race and gender theory, and the body. Other new material includes treatments of thinkers such as Nietzsche, DuBois, and Eagleton, and considers important contemporary themes, including virtual reality and cosmopolitanism.
Internationally respected by students and teachers alike, the first edition of Cultural Theory has been translated into several languages and became legendary on campuses worldwide. This new, restructured edition, packed with special features for students and accompanied by a website, promises to be the most authoritative text of its kind.
Reviews / Votes
"Highly recommended to anyone interested in acquiring a theoretical basis on which to systematize their knowledge of cultural theory. Indeed, the authors manage to make the complex simple enough to understand without oversimplifying." (Discourse Studies, 2010) "Presenting such a wide-ranging and multifarious set of ideas in a coherent manner constitutes a very considerable achievement. The book offers anyone interested in cultural theory a broad conspectus--provided of course it is read as a whole." (Metapsychology Online Reviews, February 2009)More details
Product info
gebunden
Edition
2. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
Hoboken
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Edition type
New edition
Dimensions
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 17.7 cm
Thickness: 2.3 cm
Weight
724 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-6908-0 (9781405169080)
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Persons
Philip Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University and Deputy Director of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. His books include Cultural Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2001), Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War and Suez (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (with Jeffrey C. Alexander) (2005), and Punishment and Culture (2008).
Alexander Riley is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. He is the author of Godless Intellectuals?: How Durkheimian Sociology and Poststructuralism Reinvented the Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred (2008).
Content
Preface to the First Edition: About this Book.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory?.
1 Culture in Classical Social Theory.
2 Culture and Social Integration in the Work of Talcott Parsons.
3 Culture as Ideology in Western Marxism.
4 Culture as Action in Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology.
5 The Durkheimians: Ritual, Classification, and the Sacred.
6 Structuralism and the Semiotic Analysis of Culture.
7 The Poststructural Turn.
8 Culture, Structure, and Agency: Three Attempts at Synthesis.
9 British Cultural Studies.
10 The Production and Reception of Culture.
11 Culture as Text: Narrative and Hermeneutics.
12 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Culture and the Self.
13 The Cultural Analysis of Postmodernism and Postmodernity.
14 Postmodern and Poststructural Critical Theory.
15 Cultural Theories of Race and Gender.
16 The Body in Cultural Theory.
References.
Index