This book provides a comprehensive account of different sociological theories of culture. Examining and comparing Marxist contributions from Gramsci, the Frankfurt School and Raymond Williams with the work of Weber, Durkheim, Simmel and Parsons, the author in turn contrasts these contributions with contemporary cultural theory. Concepts and theories of culture such as hegemony, force field and cultural materialism are discussed, and the work of Habermas, Bourdieu, Bakhtin, Jameson and Bell is examined critically. The author develops a sociological approach to the study and analysis of culture that allows the complex nature of social context to be taken into account. Arguing that cultural theory must equally develop theories of agency and self, he reviews the ways that both classical and contemporary sociological and Marxist theories have failed in this regard.
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Alan Swingewood is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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Towards the end of his life, irritated by what he considered to be profound misinterpretations of his work, especially by self-proclaimed Marxists, Marx vigorously protested: 'All I know is that I am not a Marxist' (Marx and Engels, 1962, vol. 2, p. 486). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theorise culture, theorising culture, differentiation thesis, short circuit effect, cultural sociology, homologous relation, false antinomy, constituting role, affirmative culture, culture thesis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Towards the end of his life, irritated by what he considered to be profound misinterpretations of his work, especially by self-proclaimed Marxists, Marx vigorously protested: 'All I know is that I am not a Marxist' (Marx and Engels, 1962, vol. 2, p. 486). Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
theorise culture, theorising culture, differentiation thesis, short circuit effect, cultural sociology, homologous relation, false antinomy, constituting role, affirmative culture, culture thesis Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Frankfurt School, Gramsci's Marxism, Cultural Theon, Unlike Weber, Western Marxism, Martin Jay, Max Weber New!
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- The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture (Routledge Classics) by Theodor W. Adorno on 4 pages
- Long Revolution by Raymond Williams on 4 pages
- Florentine Painting And Its Social Background by Frederick Antal on page 10, and Back Matter
- Florentine Painting and its Social Background by Frederic Antal on page 10, and Back Matter
- Marxism and Literature (Marxist Introductions) by Raymond Williams on page 80, and Back Matter
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- Two Vermonts: Geography and Identity, 1865-1910 (Revisiting New England) by Paul Searls in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Critical Social Theory: Culture, Society and Critique by Tim Dant on page 130, and Back Matter
- Justice for the Poor: A Study of Criminal Defence Work (Law, Justice and Power) by Debra S. Emmelman in Back Matter
- Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City by Mari Hvattum in Back Matter
- The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins (Cambridge Companions to Literature) by Jenny Bourne Taylor on page 22
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