Culture and Society - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521359392 ISBN 13: 9780521359399

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1990

Synopsis

This volume brings together the major statements by the leading contemporary scholars of cultural analysis on the relation 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. 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 past two decades of a cultural paradigm for social and political analysis.

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Book Description:

Highlighting developments over the past two decades, individual contributions bring together major statements by leading contemporary scholars on the relationship between culture and society.

From the Back Cover:

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. Part II 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0521359392
• ISBN 13: 9780521359399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Alexander Jeffrey C.