Sociology On Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415284844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 304 str.

John R. Hall; John R. Hall; Mary Jo Neitz

Opis

Culture has become a touchstone of interdisciplinary conversation. For readers interested in sociology, the social sciences and the humanities, this book maps major classical and contemporary analyses and controversies about culture in relation to social processes, everyday life and axes of ordering and difference such as race, class and gender. Hall, Neitz, and Battani discuss: self and identity; stratification; the Other; the cultural histories of modernity and postmodernity; culture and power; production of culture; the problem of the audience; and action, social movements, and change. The text pays little respect to boundaries, drawing on diverse intellectual perspectives and a variety of topics about culture and the arts, for various historical time periods and regions of the world. The authors advocate cultivating the sociological imagination by engaging myriad languages and perspectives of the social sciences and humanities, while cultivating cultural studies by developing the sociological imagination.

Recenzje

"Sociology on Culture negotiates an enormously scholarly terrain, with brevity, in ways that will prove consistently interesting to sociologists--so much so that it merits wide reading quite independent of use in teaching....Few books meant as texts have been written as finely and with as much scope and imagination as this one....Sociology on Culture is as stimulating a text as you could wish with to engage students. The books sets a very high standard, and will prove absorbing and instructive to anyone interested in culture." - Contemporary Sociology

Spis treści

1. Introduction Part 1: Culture and Society 2. Culture, Self and Society 3. Preindustrial Sources of Contemporary Culture 4. Social Stratification and Culture Part 2: Toward a Sociology of Cultural Power, Production and Social Life 5. Power, Culture and Cultural Power 6. The Production of Culture 7. Cultural Objects, Audiences and Users and Meaning Part 3: Culture in a Changing World 8. Industrialism and Mass Culture 9. Deconstructing Folk Culture 10. Deconstructing Postmodernity 11. Culture, Action and Change

O autorze

John R. Hall is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Davis.

Mary Jo Neitz is Professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri-Columbia.

Marshall Battani is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Grand Valley State University, Michigan.