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Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates de Jeffrey C. Alexander

Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates

Editat de Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 aug 1990
This volume brings together the major statements by the leading contemporary scholars of cultural analysis on the relationship between culture and society. Part one surveys the range of current analytical debate over culture, focusing on the relationship of culture to social structure and power. Approaches to the study of culture covered include functionalism, semiotics, and Weberian, Durkheimian, and Marxian analysis. While individual contributions differ in defining the nature of culture and its relation to society, they are in agreement in assessing the relative autonomy of culture and the centrality of symbolic analysis. Part two turns to substantive debates, including those over the role of religion, secular ideology, and mass culture and brings to light disputes about the meaning of modernity. The book testifies to the remarkable development in the last two decades of a cultural paradigm for social and political analysis.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521359399
ISBN-10: 0521359392
Pagini: 384
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction Part I. Analytic Debates: 'Understanding the Relative Autonomy of Culture' introduction; The case for culture 1. The human studies; 2. Values and social systems; 3. Culture and ideological hegemony; 4. Signs and language; Approaches to culture Functionalist 1. The normative structure of science; 2. Values and democracy; Semiotic 3. The world of wrestling; 4. Food as symbolic code; Dramaturgical 5. Out of frame activity; 6. The Balinese cockfight as play; Weberian 7. Puritanism and revolutionary ideology; 8. French catholicism and secular grace; Durkheimian: 9. Lininality and community; 10. Symbolic pollution; 11. Sex as symbol in Victorian purity; Marxian 12. Class formation and ritual; 13. Masculinity and factory labor; Post-structuralist: 14. Artistic taste and cultural capital; 15. Sexual discourse and power; Part II. Substantive Debates: Moral Order and Crisis: Perspectives on Modern Culture; The Place of Religion: Is modernity a Secular or Sacred Order? Introduction: 1. Social sources of secularization; 2. The future of religion Wolfgang 3. Civil religion in America; The debate over the 'End of Ideology': can secular reason create cultural order? 4. Culture industry revisited; 5. From consensual order to instrumental control; 6. The end of ideology in the west; 7. Beyond coercion and crisis: the coming of an era of voluntary community; 8. Ideology, the cultural apparatus, and the new consciousness industry; Modernism or post-modernism: dissolution of reconstruction of moral order? 9. Post-modernism and the dissolution of moral order; 10. The post-modern condition; 11. Modernity versus postmodernity; 12. Mapping the post-modern.

Recenzii

'Culture and Society is an important resource for those of us who teach courses and seminars in the sociology of culture. It is important in its scope and range: theoretical, from functionalism and neo-Marxism to dramaturgical analysis to postmodernism; disciplinary, including key contributions by anthropologists, historians and others, as well as by sociologists; and substantive, ranging from politics and work to religion and science. The volume consolidates recent progress in the social sciences' understanding of culture without turning its back on deservedly influential ideas of the past.' Paul MiMaggio, Yale University
'The essays presented here provide an essential foundation for understanding contemporary debates about the place of culture criticism in a variety of disciplines. All of the major theoretical trends are amply represented, and their juxtaposition will give students and scholars an excellent overview of current trends, problems, and potentials in one of the fastest growing areas of intellectual interest.' Lynn Hunt, University of Pennsylvania
'This splendid collection of essays illuminates the vital argument about the importance of culture in social analysis today. Many of the articles are classics in their own right. The book is a major contribution to teaching and research.' Robert N. Bellah, University of California, Berkeley

Descriere

Brings together the major statements by the leading contemporary scholars of cultural analysis on the relationship between culture and society.