Understanding Culture: Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering (Theory, Culture & Society)
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0761965157
ISBN 13
9780761965152
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Publication Year
2001
Publisher
Pages
192
Description
Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of `doing' cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in which cultural objects and practices serve as both a means of ordering people's lives and as markers of that ordering. The book reviews the state of the discipline of cultural studies and suggests a new theoretical and methodological orientation drawing on the work of: Foucault; scepticism, Wittgenstein; Harvey Sacks and John Law; uses insights from a variety of sources to examine the complex ways in which meanings are manufactured as lives are ordered in particular social settings: personal life, education, health, the city and law; and pre - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
