Smith / Riley Cultural Theory

An Introduction
2. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5890-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten, E-Book

This second edition of Cultural Theory provides a conciseintroduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditionalconcepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptualframework.
* Provides a student-friendly introduction to what can often be acomplex field of study
* Updates the first edition in response to reader feedback and tothe changing nature of the field
* Includes additional coverage of theorists from the classicalperiod to include Nietzsche and DuBois
* Introduces entirely new chapters on race and gender theory, andthe body
* Considers themes that have become more important in theoreticalactivity in recent years such as computers and virtual reality,cosmopolitanism, and performance theory
* Draws on theories and theorists from continental Europe as wellas the English-speaking world

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Philip

Riley, Alexander

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 TalcottParsons.
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 atSynthesis.
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.

Über Autor(innen)

Philip Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at YaleUniversity and Deputy Director of the Yale Center for CulturalSociology. His books include Cultural Theory: AnIntroduction (Blackwell, 2001), Why War? The Cultural Logicof Iraq, the Gulf War and Suez (2005), The CambridgeCompanion to Durkheim (with Jeffrey C. Alexander) (2005), andPunishment and Culture (2008).
Alexander Riley is Associate Professor of Sociology atBucknell University. He is the author of Godless Intellectuals?:How Durkheimian Sociology and Poststructuralism Reinvented theIntellectual Pursuit of the Sacred (2008).