Culture and society : contemporary debates
"This volume brings together major statements by the leading contemporary scholars of cultural analysis. Part I surveys the range of current analytical debate over culture. Focusing on the reciprocal relationship between symbolic code and social structure, the contributors bring abstract theories down to earth in a series of readable case studies. Neoclassical examples of Weberian, Durkheimian, and Marxian analysis are included, as are prototypes of functionalist, semiotic, and poststructuralist analysis. While the contributors differ sharply in their understanding of the culture/society relation, the articles in Part I exhibit an underlying consensus about the relative autonomy of culture and the centrality of symbolic analysis." "Part II then 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. This book testifies to the remarkable development in the past two decades of a cultural paradigm for social and political analysis. Book jacket."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1990
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1990
Aufsatzsammlung
vii, 375 pages ; 24 cm
9780521350860, 9780521359399, 0521350867, 0521359392
20992397
The case for culture
Approaches to culture: functionalist, semiotic, dramaturgical, Weberian, Durkheimian, Marxian, poststructuralist
The place of religion : is modernity a secular or sacred order?
The debate over the "end of ideology" : can secular reason create cultural order?
Modernism or postmodernism : dissolution or reconstruction of moral order?
Collection of thirty-one extracts from previously published material, 1942-1988