This timely and lively book teems with new insights and speculations about how culture is reproduced. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, it will be recognized as a key text in the sociology of culture and cultural studies.
This timely and lively book teems with new insights and speculations about how culture is reproduced. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, it will...
In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertising, film, painting and fine art journalism, photography, television and propaganda. They argue that there is only a social, not a formal relation between vision and truth. A major preoccupation of modernity and central to an understadning of the postmodern, 'vision' and the 'visual' are emergent themes across sociology, cultural studies and critical theory in the visual arts. Visual Culture will prove an indispensable guide to the field.
In Visual Culture the 'visual' character of contemporary culture is explored in original and lively essays. The contributors look at advertis...
Culture is an extremely complex and highly contested concept. The idea of culture embraces a range of topics, processes, differences and even paradoxes. The history, various usages and different meanings of Culture derive from diverse areas of study, including philosophy, critical aesthetics, literary criticism, anthropology, and sociology. These volumes introduce the reader to these multi-facets of the concept and the wide and often contradictory variety of interpretations that have been and continue to be placed on it. The diverse meanings and interpretations of the concept are also...
Culture is an extremely complex and highly contested concept. The idea of culture embraces a range of topics, processes, differences and even paradoxe...
In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks presents a sweeping overview of the history of ideas, the major theorists and the significant moments in the formation of the idea of transgression.
In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks presents a sweeping overview of the history of ideas, the major theorists and the significant moments in the fo...
The works included in this collection are drawn from a broad range of canonical and secondary sources and emphasize the new, covering modernist and post-modernist perspectives of urban culture. Issues such as gender, class, race, age and disability are covered in an urban context from around the globe.
The works included in this collection are drawn from a broad range of canonical and secondary sources and emphasize the new, covering modernist and po...
Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory, Qualitative Complexity is the first comprehensive sociological analysis of complexity theory. Drawing from sources in sociology, philosophy, complexity theory, 'fuzzy logic', systems theory, cognitive science and evolutionary biology, John Smith and Chris Jenks present a new series of interdisciplinary perspectives on the sociology of complex, self-organizing structures.
Offering a critique of the humanist paradigm in contemporary social theory, Qualitative Complexity is the first comprehensive sociological...
Culture is a concept that has remained on the top of the agenda within the social sciences for two decades. It incites controversy and debate and always appears fresh. This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its political and ideological bases. The book looks at the concept of culture in the context of idealism and materialism, examining its relation to the notion of social structure and assessing its once assumed monopoly...
Culture is a concept that has remained on the top of the agenda within the social sciences for two decades. It incites controversy and debate and a...
In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society:
the history of childhood from medieval times through the enlightenment 'discovery' of childhood to the present
the mythology and reality of child abuse and society's response to it
the 'death' of childhood in cases such as the James Bulger murder in which the child...
In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussio...
A polished piece of work which takes a cool and dispassionate look at subculture... Meticulous and insightful' - Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cultural Analysis, University of Loughborough
This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the concept back to its foundations in the works of Tonnies and Durkheim and, to a lesser degree, Marx and Weber.
This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the concept back to its foundations in the works of Tonnies and Durkheim and, to a lesser degree, Marx and...
A polished piece of work which takes a cool and dispassionate look at subculture... Meticulous and insightful' - Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cult...
A polished piece of work which takes a cool and dispassionate look at subculture... Meticulous and insightful' - Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cultural Analysis, University of Loughborough
This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the concept back to its foundations in the works of Tonnies and Durkheim and, to a lesser degree, Marx and Weber.
This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the concept back to its foundations in the works of Tonnies and Durkheim and, to a lesser degree, Marx and...
A polished piece of work which takes a cool and dispassionate look at subculture... Meticulous and insightful' - Jim McGuigan, Professor of Cult...
