Culture as Praxis (Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society)

Type

Book

Authors

Zygmunt Bauman

ISBN 10

0761959890

ISBN 13

9780761959892

Tags

Social Sciences, Cultural, Sociology

Description

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 fals - from Amzon

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