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Author : Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781483358161

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Consumer Culture and Society by Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy Pdf

Consumer Culture and Society offers an introduction to the study of consumerism and consumption from a sociological perspective. Author Wendy Wiedenhoft Murphy examines what we buy, how and where we consume, the meanings attached to the things we purchase, and the social forces that enable and constrain consumer behavior. Opening chapters provide a theoretical overview and history of consumer society and featured case studies look at mass consumption in familiar contexts, such as tourism, food, and higher education. The book explores ethical and political concerns, including consumer activism, indebtedness, alternative forms of consumption, and dilemmas surrounding the globalization of consumer culture.

Author : Adam Muller
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781552381670

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Concepts of Culture by Adam Muller Pdf

How do we define 'culture?' In this volume, Adam Muller brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars in a number of different disciplines who each examine the concept of culture as it is understood and deployed within their respective fields.

Author : Bryan S Turner,Chris Rojek
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781412933681

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Society and Culture by Bryan S Turner,Chris Rojek Pdf

Society and Culture reclaims the classical heritage, provides a clear-eyed assessment of the promise of sociology in the 21st century and asks whether the `cultural turn′ has made the study of society redundant. Sociologists have objected to the rise of cultural studies on the grounds that it produces cultural relativism and lacks a stable research agenda. This book looks at these criticisms and illustrates the relevance of a sociological perspective in the analysis of human practice. The book argues that the classical tradition must be treated as a living tradition, rather than a period piece. It analyzes the fundamental principles of belonging and conflict in society and provides a detailed critical survey of the principal social theories that offer solutions to the challenges of modernism.

Author : Richard Guy Parker,Peter Aggleton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 1857288114

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Culture, Society and Sexuality by Richard Guy Parker,Peter Aggleton Pdf

This work offers an introduction to the central debates in sexuality research. Among the issues examined are the social and cultural dimensions of sex, human sexuality and sex research.

Author : Liana Giannakopoulou,E. Kostas Skordyles
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781527512115

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Culture and Society in Crete by Liana Giannakopoulou,E. Kostas Skordyles Pdf

Crete has always attracted the interest of scholars in modern times not only because of the archaeological discoveries of Sir Arthur Evans, but also because of its rich history and the particular cultural traits and traditions resulting from the fact that the island has been at the centre of geographical, cultural and religious crossroads. The fifteen papers included in this volume explore original aspects of the Cretan cultural and historical tradition, give original insights into already established fields and underline from the vantage point of their own particular discipline its distinctive character and impact. As a result of such a thematic variety, this volume will be of interest not only to scholars and students of modern Greek studies, but also Renaissance Studies, comparative literature, cultural and social history and anthropology, and travel literature, as well as historical linguistics and dialectology.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Steven Seidman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0521359392

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Culture and Society by Jeffrey C. Alexander,Steven Seidman Pdf

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

Author : Neil Stevens Forkey
Publisher : Calgary : University of Calgary Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015056920435

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Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier by Neil Stevens Forkey Pdf

Neil Forkey makes a significant contribution to the growing body of work on Canadian environmental history. Themes of ethnicity and environment in the Trent Valley are brought into wider perspective with comparisons to other areas of contemporary settlement throughout the British Empire and North America. Forkey begins by placing his study within the literature of settler societies of Upper Canada and North America. The Trent Valley's geography, prehistory, and Native peoples, the Huron and the Mississauga, are discussed alongside the Anglo-Celtic migrations and resettlement of the area. Careful attention is devoted to the life and nature writings of Catherine Parr Traill. Her descriptions of life and environmental changes in the Valley point the way to a keener understanding of Canadian attitudes about the natural world during the nineteenth century. Shaping the Upper Canadian Frontier: Environment, Society, and Culture in the Trent Valley is the story of the Trent Valley during the nineteenth century, one of a settler society and a microcosm for wider human and environmental changes throughout North America.

Author : Laura Nader
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1997-04-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 0520208331

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Law in Culture and Society by Laura Nader Pdf

"A classic collection in the anthropology of law. While some exceptionally good descriptive work is presented, the volume is particularly valuable in providing a range of thoughtful, engaged, and empirically grounded theoretical explorations of issues in the comparative study of law and conflict."—Donald Brenneis, author of Dangerous Words

Author : David Oswell
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781847877536

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Culture and Society by David Oswell Pdf

"Too often cultural studies discourse seems cut off from wider developments in social theory. As a sociologist with a strong cultural studies sensibility, David Oswell is ideally placed to put this right. Through a series of well-judged and historically nuanced readings of cultural, social theory and critical philosophy, this book provides just the bridge between cultural studies and wider debates that we need" - Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science David Oswell has written a comprehensive introduction to cultural studies that guides the reader through the field′s central foundations and its freshest ideas. This book: Grounds the reader in the foundations of cultural studies and cultural theory: language and semiology, ideology and power, mass and popular culture. Analyzes the central problems: identity, body, economy, globalization and empire. Introduces the latest developments on materiality, agency, technology and nature. Culture and Society is an invaluable guide for students navigating the dynamic debates and intellectual challenges of cultural studies. Its breadth and unparalleled coverage of theory will also ensure that it is read by anyone interested in questions of materiality and culture.

Author : Jürgen Kocka
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1571811982

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Industrial Culture and Bourgeois Society by Jürgen Kocka Pdf

"For students ... this is a good introduction ... The assorted essays ... successfully present Kocka's methodological emphases and his wide-ranging contributions to modern German social history." - Enterprise & Society "This fine volume brings together essays by one of the leading modern German historians, essays that give the reader an impressive overview of his work from three decades and introduce new generations of students to central questions of modern German social history." - Central European History "... a tour de force of societal history, reminding one both of how many insights Kocka has generated through application of Weberian analytical tools." - H-Net Reviews (H-W-Civ) "... a good introduction ... the assorted essays ... successfully present Kocka's methodological emphases and his wide-ranging contributions to modern German social history." - Enterprise & Society "... a seminal, critically important, uniquely informative contribution to the study of German history, business, entrepreneurship, and the working class." - The Midwest Book Review Jürgen Kocka is one of the foremost historians of Germany whose work has been devoted to the integration of different genres of the social and economic history of Europe during the period of industrialization. This collection of essays gives a representative sample of his effort to develop, by reference to Marx and Weber, new and powerful analytical tools for understanding the dynamics of modern industrial societies.

Author : Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo,Louise Lamphere,Joan Bamberger
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804708517

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Woman, Culture, and Society by Michelle Zimbalist Rosaldo,Louise Lamphere,Joan Bamberger Pdf

Female anthropologists scan patterns and changes in women's roles in various social systems

Author : Tony Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136596179

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Making Culture, Changing Society by Tony Bennett Pdf

Making Culture, Changing Society proposes a challenging new account of the relations between culture and society focused on how particular forms of cultural knowledge and expertise work on, order and transform society. Examining these forms of culture’s action on the social as aspects of a historically distinctive ensemble of cultural institutions, it considers the diverse ways in which culture has been produced and mobilised as a resource for governing populations. These concerns are illustrated in detailed case studies of how anthropological conceptions of the relations between race and culture have shaped – and been shaped by – the relationships between museums, fieldwork and governmental programmes in early twentieth-century France and Australia. These are complemented by a closely argued account of the relations between aesthetics and governance that, in contrast to conventional approaches, interprets the historical emergence of the autonomy of the aesthetic as vastly expanding the range of art’s social uses. In pursuing these concerns, particular attention is given to the role that the cultural disciplines have played in making up and distributing the freedoms through which modern forms of liberal government operate. An examination of the place that has been accorded habit as a route into the regulation of conduct within liberal social, cultural and political thought brings these questions into sharp focus. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, cultural studies, media studies, anthropology, museum and heritage studies, history, art history and cultural policy studies.

Author : James W. Carey
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 041590725X

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Communication as Culture by James W. Carey Pdf

Carey's seminal work joins central issues in the field and redefines them. It will force the reader to think in new and fruitful ways about such dichotomies as transmissions vs. ritual, administrative vs. critical, positivist vs. marxist, and cultural vs. power-orientated approaches to communications study. An historically inspired treatment of major figures and theories, required reading for the sophisticated scholar' - George Gerbner, University of Pennsylvania ...offers a mural of thought with a rich background, highlighted by such thoughts as communication being the 'maintenance of society in time'. - Cast/Communication Booknotes These essays encompass much more than a critique of an academic discipline. Carey's lively thought, lucid style, and profound scholarship propel the reader through a wide and varied intellectual landscape, particularly as these issues have affected Modern American thought. As entertaining as it is enlightening, Communication as Culture is certain to become a classic in its field.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : African Americans
ISBN : UOM:39015054173375

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Mental Health by Anonim Pdf

Author : Grant Jarvie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134401635

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Sport, Culture and Society by Grant Jarvie Pdf

This exciting, accessible introduction to the field of Sports Studies is the most comprehensive guide yet to the relationships between sport, culture and society. Taking an international perspective, Sport, Culture and Society provides students with the insight they need to think critically about the nature of sport, and includes: a clear and comprehensive structure unrivalled coverage of the history, culture, media, sociology, politics and anthropology of sport coverage of core topics and emerging areas extensive original research and new case study material. The book offers a full range of features to help guide students and lecturers, including essay topics, seminar questions, key definitions, extracts from primary sources, extensive case studies, and guides to further reading. Sport, Culture and Society represents both an important course resource for students of sport and also sets a new agenda for the social scientific study of sport.