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Understanding Culture

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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

Pages: 192

Format: ebook

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Release: January 01, 2001

ISBN: 1280370017

ISBN 13: 9781280370014

Understanding Culture

0/5 ( ratings)

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

Pages: 192

Format: ebook

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd

Release: January 01, 2001

ISBN: 1280370017

ISBN 13: 9781280370014

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