Culture as Praxis
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Author_Zygmunt Bauman
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Cultural Theory
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Social Theory
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- ISBN 9780761959892
- Weight: 330g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 15 Dec 1998
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a universal of human life. At the heart of his approach is the proposition that culture is inherently ambivalent.
With a major new introduction to this new edition, this classic work emerges as a crucial link in the development of Bauman′s thought. By his own admission, it was the first of his books to grope towards a new kind of social theory, in contrast to the false certainties and gross theorems that dominated much of the post-war period. This is Bauman at his best, at his most subtle and his most searching.
Zygmunt Bauman is Emeritus Professor of sociology at the Universities of Leeds and Warsaw
