The author considers a series of case studies in which law and culture contest a range of concepts including: legitimacy, judgement, memory, violence and aesthetics. She explores how the legal imagination is bordered by concerns for sheltering the public from, for example, disgusting works of art.
The author considers a series of case studies in which law and culture contest a range of concepts including: legitimacy, judgement, memory, violence ...
Class, Self, Culture puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how class is made and given value through culture. It shows how different classes become attributed with value, enabling culture to be deployed as a resource and as a form of property, which has both use-value to the person and exchange-value in systems of symbolic and economic exchange. The book shows how class has not disappeared, but is known and spoken in a myriad of different ways, always working through other categorisations of nation, race, gender and sexuality and across different...
Class, Self, Culture puts class back on the map in a novel way by taking a new look at how class is made and given value through culture. It ...
This text introduces students to the major debtes and data on the information society and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives an overview of: theorists of the information society and social research methodologies, including positivist, interpretivist, critical and cultural qualitative and quantitative research methods, with criteria for social science evaluation. Drawing on a rich body of empirical work, it explores three core themes of information society debates: the transformation of culture through the information revolution, changing patterns of work and employment...
This text introduces students to the major debtes and data on the information society and at the same time teaches them how to research it. It gives a...
