The new edition of Cultural Theory: An Introduction is a concise, student friendly introduction to the field of cultural theory and sociology of culture. The second edition of this important text covers fields such as symbolic interactionism, structuralism, and psychoanalysis, and leading thinkers like Foucault, Bourdieu, Habermas, and Giddens. The second edition includes additional coverage of important thinkers, including Tocqueville, Nietzsche, DuBois, and Randall Collins. This new edition also includes two completely new chapters, one on the body and material culture and the second covering race, gender, and cultural theory. INDICE: Introduction.Chapter One: Culture in Classical Social Theory.Chapter Two: Culture and Social Integration in the Work of Talcott Parsons.Chapter Three: Culture as Ideology in Western Marxism.Chapter Four: Culture as Action in Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology.Chapter Five: The Durkheimians: Ritual, Classification, and the Sacred.Chapter Six: Structuralism and the Semiotic Analysis of Culture.Chapter Seven: The Poststructural Turn.Chapter Eight: Culture, Structure, and Agency: Three Attempts at Synthesis.Chapter Nine: British Cultural Studies.Chapter Ten: Production and Reception of Culture.Chapter Eleven: Culture as Text.Chapter Twelve: The Cultural Analysis of Postmodernism, Postmodernity, and Globalisation.Chapter Thirteen: Critical Postmodern and Poststructural Theory.Chapter Fourteen: The Body and Material Culture.Chapter Fifteen: Race, Gender and Cultural Theory.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-6907-3
- Editorial: Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés