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  • Fictions of Collective Life

    Public drama in late modern culture

    by David Chaney ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    First published in 1993, Fictions of Collective Life argues that the distinctive forms of modern popular culture can only be understood through the ways we dramatize public life, and that in the dramatic ‘fiction’ of collective experience we represent the terms of social order. The argument is richly illustrated with chapters on the theoretical character of performance in modernity; photography as ... Read more

    $41.99 USD

  • The Cultural Turn

    Scene Setting Essays on Contemporary Cultural History

    by David Chaney ...
    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 ... Read more

    $101.99 USD

  • Lifestyles

    by David Chaney ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    In the modern world our lifestyle helps to define our attitudes and values as well as show our wealth and social position. This clearly written introduction to the concept of lifestyle offers a concise guide to how the term is used in sociological accounts to refer to this modern social form. Lifestyles explores* how we should classify lifestyles* why they have become more important* what ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

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  • Consumption

    by Dr Robert Bocock, Robert Bocock ...
    Series series Key Ideas
    This book analyzes the main post-war features of consumption. It traces the historical development of consumption and discusses the major contributions made by sociologists in discussing the subject. Robert Bocock is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the Open University. ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • The Practice of Cultural Studies

    by Estella Tincknell, Richard Johnson, Deborah Chambers, Parvati Raghuram ...
    `This is a tour de force… It combines luminous discussion of the core conceptual issues of cultural studies, with a hard-headed, practical sense of how research in the field gets done. The result is a seriously smart, comprehensive survey of the whole terrain of cultural studies itself. This is a book on methods which readers will be able to make their own; and which -- uniquely in the genre -- ... Read more

    $102.59 USD

  • Cultural Reproduction

    Edited by Chris Jenks ...
    The idea of cultural reproduction was first developed by Bourdieu (1973) who sees the function of the education system as being to reproduce the culture of the dominant classes, thus helping to ensure their continued dominance. Through his concepts of cultural capital' and habitus' Bourdieu's influence spread into other areas of socialization and high culture. However, despite the complex of ... Read more

    $285.00 USD

  • Habermas: The Key Concepts

    by Andrew Edgar ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An independently minded champion of ‘the project of modernity’ in a supposedly post-modern age, Jurgen Habermas (1929- ) is one of the most widely influential thinkers of our times.An easy-to-use A-Z guide to a body of work that spans philosophy, sociology, politics, law and cultural theory, Habermas: The Key Concepts explores Habermas’ writings on:capitalismgeneticslawneo-conservatismuniversal ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • Culture, Media, Language

    Working Papers in Cultural Studies, 1972-79

    Edited by Stuart Hall, Dorothy Hobson, Andrew Lowe, Paul Willis ...
    Series series Cultural Studies Birmingham
    First published in 2004. A collection of the pioneering work from The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies. ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • A Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory

    by Peter Brooker ...
    The Glossary of Literary and Cultural Theory provides researchers and students with an up-to-date guide through the vibrant and changing debates in Literary and Cultural Studies. In a field where meanings are frequently complex and ambiguous, this text is remarkable for its clarity and usefulness. This third edition includes 17 entirely new entries and updates to more than a dozen others which ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • The Ironic Spectator

    Solidarity in the Age of Post-Humanitarianism

    by Lilie Chouliaraki ...
    WINNER of the 2015 ICA Outstanding Book AwardThis path-breaking book explores how solidarity towards vulnerable others is performed in our media environment. It argues that stories where famine is described through our own experience of dieting or or where solidarity with Africa translates into wearing a cool armband tell us about much more than the cause that they attempt to communicate. They ... Read more

    $22.00 USD

  • Liberal Democracy as the End of History

    Fukuyama and Postmodern Challenges

    by Christopher Hughes ...
    Series series Routledge Innovations in Political Theory
    Francis Fukuyama claims that liberal democracy is the end of history. This book provides a theoretical re-examination of this claim through postmodernist ideas.The book argues that postmodern ideas provide a valuable critique to Fukuyama’s thesis, and poses the questions: can we talk about a universal and teleological history; a universal human nature; or an autonomous individual? It addresses ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Introducing Cultural Studies

    by Brian Longhurst, Greg Smith, Gaynor Bagnall, Garry Crawford, Miles Ogborn ...
    This updated, new edition of Introducing Cultural Studies provides a systematic and comprehensible introduction to the concepts, debates and latest research in the field. Reinforcing the interdisciplinary nature of Cultural Studies, the authors first guide the reader through cultural theory before branching out to examine different dimensions of culture in detail – including globalisation, the ... Read more

    $78.99 USD