Cultural Theory

1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-631-21175-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons

Buch, Englisch, 280 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 589 g

Cultural Theory: An Introduction is a concise, accessible introduction to a complex field. Philip Smith provides a balanced, wide-ranging overview of contemporary cultural theory, covering the major thinkers and key concepts that have appeared and developed over the last century. The book has an abundance of special features for students, with summaries, biographical notes, suggestions for further reading, and cross-referencing. This book is an ideal guide for any student or researcher with an interest in the theoretical study of culture and society.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Philip

Inhaltsverzeichnis

About this Book.

Preface -- 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.

References.

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Queensland, Australia. He received his Ph.D. at the University of California at Los Angeles. Among the books he has authored or edited are Researching the Visual (2000), The New American Cultural Sociology (1998) and the Cambridge Companion to Durkheim.