Beyond the Cultural Turn
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hayden white
historical research
history
invisible history
knowledge
knowledge culture
narrative
narrative discourse
narrative theory
narrativity
new cultural history
postmodernism
postmodernity
privatization of citizenship
representation
research practices
science studies
social construction
social practices
social sciences
sociology
studies on the history of society and culture series
study of history
study of society
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- ISBN 9780520216792
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jul 1999
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the cultural turn and its postmodernist critiques of knowledge. Essays by leading historians and historical sociologists reflect on the uses of cultural theories and show both their promise and their limitations. The afterword by Hayden White provides an assessment of the trend toward culturalism by one its most influential proponents. "Beyond the Cultural Turn" offers fresh theoretical readings of the most persistent issues created by the cultural turn and provocative empirical studies focusing on diverse social practices, the uses of narrative, and the body and self as critical junctures where culture and society intersect.
Victoria E. Bonnell is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, author of Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin (California, 1997), and editor of The Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime (California, 1983), among other works. Lynn Hunt is Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and is author of The Family Romance of the French Revolution (California, 1992), and editor of The New Cultural History (California, 1989), among other works.
