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This timely volume provides a framework for understanding the cultural turn in terms of the classical legacy, contemporary cultural theory, and cultural analysis. It reveals the significance of Marxist humanism, Georg Simmel, the Frankfurt School, Stuart Hall, and the Birmingham School, Giddens, Bauman, Foucault, Bourdieu and Baudrillard. Readers receive a dazzling, critical survey of some of the primary figures in the field. However, the book is much more than a rough guide tour through the ‘great figures’ in the field. Through an analysis of specific problems, such as transculturalism, transnationalism, feminism, popular music, and cultural citizenship, it demonstrates the relevance of cultural sociology in elucidating some of the key questions of our time.
Introduction
Introduction
Recent decades have witnessed an almost ever-increasing attention to questions of culture, cultural theory and the cultural turn, yet what this means is still not entirely clear. In this collection, a range of authors, both well established and new, address these questions in a variety of ways. While literatures on cultural theory, including large edited collections, are now profuse, if not perhaps even profligate, this collection is unique in two senses. First, rather than acting as a ‘round-up’ of previously published readings, it brings together a series of original papers by authors, both time-honoured and recent; and, second, instead of asking the question, what is the significance of the impact of cultural analysis and theory for or upon sociology and social science, it asks, ...
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