What can Sociology add to our understanding of art? This volume brings together a range of respected scholars in the field who demonstrate the many ways in which sociology can add to our understanding of artistic issues. Covering all the major schools of thought, and dealing with many different art forms, the book offers the reader a comprehensive and accessible guide to an often complex area. It will be an invaluable resource for students seeking to understand sociology's contributions to the study of artistic and aesthetic issues.
What can Sociology add to our understanding of art? This volume brings together a range of respected scholars in the field who demonstrate the many wa...
This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry for the first time. The authors provide the essential resources for the study of sport within culture and popular culture. Sport is an important part of cultural life, yet until recently it has tended to remain on the margins of academic cultural studies.
Beginning by considering sport in relation to the pre-cultural studies tradition of cultural commentary, The Uses of Sport then moves on to a critical engagement with a number of themes relevant to contemporary cultural studies including: community and social...
This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry for the first time. The authors provide the essential resources for the study of spor...
This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry for the first time. The authors provide the essential resources for the study of sport within culture and popular culture. Sport is an important part of cultural life, yet until recently it has tended to remain on the margins of academic cultural studies.
Beginning by considering sport in relation to the pre-cultural studies tradition of cultural commentary, The Uses of Sport then moves on to a critical engagement with a number of themes relevant to contemporary cultural studies including: community and social capital,...
This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry for the first time. The authors provide the essential resources for the study of spor...
Culture is unquestionably a central topic in the contemporary social sciences. In order to understand how people think, feel, value, act and express themselves, it is necessary to examine the cultures they create, and are in turn created by. Here, David Inglis shows how the study of culture can be transformed by focusing in on how cultural forces shape, influence, structure - and occasionally disrupt - the day-to-day activities of individuals.
Reconsidering different views on 'culture' - what it is, how it operates, and how it relates to other aspects of the human (and...
Culture is unquestionably a central topic in the contemporary social sciences. In order to understand how people think, feel, value, act and expres...
Culture is unquestionably a central topic in the contemporary social sciences. In order to understand how people think, feel, value, act and express themselves, it is necessary to examine the cultures they create, and are in turn created by. Here, David Inglis shows how the study of culture can be transformed by focusing in on how cultural forces shape, influence, structure - and occasionally disrupt - the day-to-day activities of individuals.
Reconsidering different views on 'culture' - what it is, how it operates, and how it relates to other aspects of the human (and...
Culture is unquestionably a central topic in the contemporary social sciences. In order to understand how people think, feel, value, act and expres...
'Nature' is perhaps the most contested term in the social sciences. It has a huge variety of possible meanings, and an equally great number of implications as to what human life actually is and how it should be studied. Questions frequently raised include: What is 'nature'? What is 'human nature'? How does mankind act upon, change, manipulate and otherwise alter the 'natural world', and what might the consequences be thereof? How does the 'natural world' impinge upon human life? What are the moral and ethical issues involved in the areas just mentioned?
Containing the main...
'Nature' is perhaps the most contested term in the social sciences. It has a huge variety of possible meanings, and an equally great numbe...
Confronting Culture offers a clear and accessible discussion and analysis of the complex field of the sociology of culture, and how it compares with approaches developed within cultural studies.
An accessible guide to the complex field of the sociological study of culture.
Unique in showing how sociological understandings of culture often differ from rival approaches in the discipline of cultural studies.
Introduces the various ways of thinking sociologically about culture that have been developed over the last century. ...
Confronting Culture offers a clear and accessible discussion and analysis of the complex field of the sociology of culture, and how it compares...
Confronting Culture offers a clear and accessible discussion and analysis of the complex field of the sociology of culture, and how it compares with approaches developed within cultural studies.
An accessible guide to the complex field of the sociological study of culture.
Unique in showing how sociological understandings of culture often differ from rival approaches in the discipline of cultural studies.
Introduces the various ways of thinking sociologically about culture that have been developed over the last century. ...
Confronting Culture offers a clear and accessible discussion and analysis of the complex field of the sociology of culture, and how it compares...
Globalization has become perhaps the most central--and one of the most contested--terms in the social sciences in the present day. If one wishes to understand the conditions in which different groups of people live today, it seems increasingly impossible to ignore the aspects of those conditions that are seen to be characterized, or influenced, by "global" forces, movements and phenomena. Regarding particular phenomena, no matter how apparently "local" or parochial in nature, as being located within "global" flows or systems or structures, seems today to be a very necessary component of...
Globalization has become perhaps the most central--and one of the most contested--terms in the social sciences in the present day. If one wishes to...
