Beyond the Cultural Turn - New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture

Informationen zum Autor Victoria E. Bonnell is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of California! Berkeley! author of Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin (California! 1997)! and editor of The Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime (California! 1983)! among other works. Lynn Hunt is Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania! and is author of The Family Romance of the French Revolution (California! 1992)! and editor of The New Cultural History (California! 1989)! among other works. Zusammenfassung Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology. Inhaltsverzeichnis CONTRIBUTORS: Richard Biernacki Caroline Bynum Steven Feierman Karen Halttunen Margaret C. Jacob Sonya O. Rose Jerrold Seigel William H. Sewell Jr. Margaret R. Somers Hayden White

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• Authors: Victoria E. Hunt Bonnell
• Assisted by: Victoria E. Bonnell (Editor), Bonnell Victoria E. (Editor), Lynn Hunt (Editor), Hunt Lynn (Editor), Hayden White (Afterword), White Hayden (Afterword)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.1999
• EAN: 9780520216792
• ISBN: 978-0-520-21679-2
• No. of pages: 361
• Series: Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Cultural Studies, History: theory & methods, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, History: theory and methods