This second edition of
Cultural Theory provides a concise introduction to cultural theory, placing major figures, traditional concepts, and contemporary themes within a sharp conceptual framework.
- Provides a student-friendly introduction to what can often be a complex field of study
- Updates the first edition in response to reader feedback and to the changing nature of the field
- Includes additional coverage of theorists from the classical period to include Nietzsche and DuBois
- Introduces entirely new chapters on race and gender theory, and the body
- Considers themes that have become more important in theoretical activity in recent years such as computers and virtual reality, cosmopolitanism, and performance theory
- Draws on theories and theorists from continental Europe as well as the English-speaking world
Preface to the First Edition: About this Book.
Preface to the Second Edition.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory?
1 Culture in Classical Social Theory.
2 Culture and Social Integration in the Work of Talcott Parsons.
3 Culture as Ideology in Western Marxism.
4 Culture as Action in Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology.
5 The Durkheimians: Ritual, Classification, and the Sacred.
6 Structuralism and the Semiotic Analysis of Culture.
7 The Poststructural Turn.
8 Culture, Structure, and Agency: Three Attempts at Synthesis.
9 British Cultural Studies.
10 The Production and Reception of Culture.
11 Culture as Text: Narrative and Hermeneutics.
12 Psychoanalytic Approaches to CullÓ—
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