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Cultural Theory - An Introduction 2e P Smith

Cultural Theory - An Introduction 2e By P Smith

Cultural Theory - An Introduction 2e by P Smith

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The new edition of Cultural Theory: An Introduction is a concise, student friendly introduction to the field of cultural theory and sociology of culture. The second edition of this important text covers fields such as symbolic interactionism, structuralism, and psychoanalysis, and leading thinkers like Foucault, Bourdieu, Habermas, and Giddens.

Cultural Theory - An Introduction 2e Summary

Cultural Theory - An Introduction 2e by P Smith

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

Cultural Theory - An Introduction 2e Reviews

Highly recommended to anyone interested in acquiring a theoretical basis on which to systematize their knowledge of cultural theory. Indeed, the authors manage to make the complex simple enough to understand without oversimplifying. (Discourse Studies, 2010) Presenting such a wide-ranging and multifarious set of ideas in a coherent manner constitutes a very considerable achievement. The book offers anyone interested in cultural theory a broad conspectus--provided of course it is read as a whole. (Metapsychology Online Reviews, February 2009)

About P Smith

Philip Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University and Deputy Director of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. His books include Cultural Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2001), Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War and Suez (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (with Jeffrey C. Alexander) (2005), and Punishment and Culture (2008). Alexander Riley is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. He is the author of Godless Intellectuals?: How Durkheimian Sociology and Poststructuralism Reinvented the Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred (2008).

Table of Contents

Preface to the First Edition: About this Book. Preface to the Second Edition. Acknowledgments. Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory? 1 Culture in Classical Social Theory. 2 Culture and Social Integration in the Work of Talcott Parsons. 3 Culture as Ideology in Western Marxism. 4 Culture as Action in Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology. 5 The Durkheimians: Ritual, Classification, and the Sacred. 6 Structuralism and the Semiotic Analysis of Culture. 7 The Poststructural Turn. 8 Culture, Structure, and Agency: Three Attempts at Synthesis. 9 British Cultural Studies. 10 The Production and Reception of Culture. 11 Culture as Text: Narrative and Hermeneutics. 12 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Culture and the Self. 13 The Cultural Analysis of Postmodernism and Postmodernity. 14 Postmodern and Poststructural Critical Theory. 15 Cultural Theories of Race and Gender. 16 The Body in Cultural Theory. References. Index.

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GOR011220384
9781405169073
1405169079
Cultural Theory - An Introduction 2e by P Smith
P Smith
Used - Like New
Paperback
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
20080725
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