Cultural theory : an introduction /

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Main Author: Smith, Philip (Philip Daniel), 1964-
Other Authors: Riley, Alexander
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Blackwell, 2009
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2007052261-d.html
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/2007052261-t.html
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Table of Contents:
  • Culture in classical social theory -- Culture and social integration in the work of Talcott Parsons -- Culture as ideology in western marxism -- Culture as action in symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, and ethnomethodology -- The Durkheimians : ritual, classification, and the sacred -- Structuralism and the semiotic analysis of culture -- The poststructural turn -- Culture, structure, and agency : three attempts at synthesis -- British cultural studies -- The production and reception of culture -- Culture as text : narrative and hermeneutics -- Psychoanalytic approaches to culture and the self -- The cultural analysis of postmodernism and postmodernity -- Postmodern and poststructural critical theory -- Cultural theories of race and gender -- The body in cultural theory.