A01=David Chaney
Author_David Chaney
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citizenship studies
Civil Society
communication
Contemporary Society
Cultural Reproduction
Cultural Studies
cultural theory
culture
entertainment
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forms
Global Cultural Corporations
Held
history
Home Towns
human
identity formation
Late Modern Culture
Local Cultural Practice
mass
Mass Communication
Mass Culture
Mass Entertainment
Moral Authoritarianism
paradigm shift in cultural studies
Part Ii Form
popular
Post-war
Postmodern Cultural Practice
Postmodern Culture
sciences
Social Organisation
social reality analysis
Social Reproduction
society
sociological paradigms
spatial meaning
Suburban Life Style
Suburban Places
Suburban Shopping Centre
USA
Violate
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415102988
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Sep 1994
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the second half of the twentieth century the theme of culture has dominated the human sciences. The forms of contemporary culture demand a radical reappraisal of the terms of description of the modern world. We therefore need to consider our options when culture does not just provide the meaning of experience but is also the terms of that experience. This book reviews these ideas in ways that will be accessible to those new to the field and also stimulating to experts. The three parts of the book: * Review the character and lessons of this "turn to culture" in a number of academic fields. The author demonstrates the socio-intellectual context within which these themes have been generated and documents the main strengths of the paradigm shift. * Explore key themes in contemporary culture. By showing how questions of citizenship and the meaning of places have been colonized under the remit of the culturalist paradigm, a cluster of associated ideas and themes implicit in the paradigm are explicitly tackled. * Examine some of the ways in whcih cultural forms are increasingly seen to dominate social reality. The final chapter explores triumphant culturalism - the postmodern world as the apogee of the turn to culture.
