Nancy Weiss Hanrahan Mark D. Jacobs Nancy Weiss Hanrahan
This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture.
Provides an invaluable reference resource to all interested in the cultural structures and processes that animate contemporary life
Contains 27 essays on the most important issues comprising the sociology of culture, including art, science, religions, race, class, gender, collective memory, institutions, and citizenship
Reflects and analyzes the "cultural turn" that has transformed...
This collection of original, state-of-the-art essays by prominent international scholars covers the most important issues comprising the sociology of ...
Arguing against the postmodern claim that systematic theory is unable to account for difference, "Difference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture" adopts an interdisciplinary approach to the analysis of cultural judgement and social change. With music as her model for theory, Hanrahan explores the role of time, the creation of meaning, the identification of difference, and the basis for judgements in cultural life, and in doing so provides a foundation for the critique of cultural objects and practices that avoids both the elitism of traditional aesthetics and the unwavering relativism of...
Arguing against the postmodern claim that systematic theory is unable to account for difference, "Difference in Time: A Critical Theory of Culture"...
