Cultural Theory
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Cultural Theory

An Introduction

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Cultural Theory

An Introduction

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About This Book

This second edition of Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework.

  • Provides a student-friendly introduction to what can often be a complex field of study
  • Updates the first edition in response to reader feedback and to the changing nature of the field
  • Includes additional coverage of theorists from the classical period to include Nietzsche and DuBois
  • Introduces entirely new chapters on race and gender theory, and the body
  • Considers themes that have become more important in theoretical activity in recent years such as computers and virtual reality, cosmopolitanism, and performance theory
  • Draws on theories and theorists from continental Europe as well as the English-speaking world

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Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2011
ISBN
9781444358902
Edition
2
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Sociology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. copyright page
  4. Preface to the First Edition: About this Book
  5. Preface to the Second Edition
  6. Acknowledgments
  7. Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory?
  8. CHAPTER ONE: Culture in Classical Social Theory
  9. CHAPTER TWO: Culture and Social Integration in the Work of Talcott Parsons
  10. CHAPTER THREE: Culture as Ideology in Western Marxism
  11. CHAPTER FOUR: Culture as Action in Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology
  12. CHAPTER FIVE: The Durkheimians: Ritual, Classification, and the Sacred
  13. CHAPTER SIX: Structuralism and the Semiotic Analysis of Culture
  14. CHAPTER SEVEN: The Poststructural Turn
  15. CHAPTER EIGHT: Culture, Structure, and Agency: Three Attempts at Synthesis
  16. CHAPTER NINE: British Cultural Studies
  17. CHAPTER TEN: The Production and Reception of Culture
  18. CHAPTER ELEVEN: Culture as Text: Narrative and Hermeneutics
  19. CHAPTER TWELVE: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Culture and the Self
  20. CHAPTER THIRTEEN: The Cultural Analysis of Postmodernism and Postmodernity
  21. CHAPTER FOURTEEN: Postmodern and Poststructural Critical Theory
  22. CHAPTER FIFTEEN: Cultural Theories of Race and Gender
  23. CHAPTER SIXTEEN: The Body in Cultural Theory
  24. References
  25. Index
  26. Backcover