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Cultural theory : an introduction /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Philip
Other Authors: Riley, Alexander
Format: Printed Book
Published: Malden, MA ; Oxford : Blackwell, 2009.
Edition:2nd ed.
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Online Access:Table of contents only
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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.