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Informationen zum Autor Philip Smith is Associate Professor of Sociology at Yale University and Deputy Director of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. His books include Cultural Theory: An Introduction (Blackwell, 2001), Why War? The Cultural Logic of Iraq, the Gulf War and Suez (2005), The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (with Jeffrey C. Alexander) (2005), and Punishment and Culture (2008). Alexander Riley is Associate Professor of Sociology at Bucknell University. He is the author of Godless Intellectuals?: How Durkheimian Sociology and Poststructuralism Reinvented the Intellectual Pursuit of the Sacred (2008). Klappentext This second edition of the renowned Cultural Theory provides a systematic and accessible introduction to cultural theory, encapsulating a usually complex field in a concise and balanced overview. This fully revised and expanded second edition provides a comprehensive tour of the major figures, themes, and debates in cultural theory, from Durkheim and Weber through to Foucault and Butler, and from charisma to consumption, but also introduces entirely new chapters on race and gender theory, and the body. Other new material includes treatments of thinkers such as Nietzsche, DuBois, and Eagleton, and considers important contemporary themes, including virtual reality and cosmopolitanism. Internationally respected by students and teachers alike, the first edition of Cultural Theory has been translated into several languages and became legendary on campuses worldwide. This new, restructured edition, packed with special features for students and accompanied by a website, promises to be the most authoritative text of its kind. Zusammenfassung The new edition of Cultural Theory: An Introduction is a concise, student friendly introduction to the field of cultural theory and sociology of culture. The second edition of this important text covers fields such as symbolic interactionism, structuralism, and psychoanalysis, and leading thinkers like Foucault, Bourdieu, Habermas, and Giddens. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface to the First Edition: About this Book vi Preface to the Second Edition ix Acknowledgments x Introduction: What is Culture? What is Cultural Theory? 1 1 Culture in Classical Social Theory 6 2 Culture and Social Integration in the Work of Talcott Parsons 26 3 Culture as Ideology in Western Marxism 34 4 Culture as Action in Symbolic Interactionism, Phenomenology, and Ethnomethodology 54 5 The Durkheimians: Ritual, Classification, and the Sacred 69 6 Structuralism and the Semiotic Analysis of Culture 92 7 The Poststructural Turn 111 8 Culture, Structure, and Agency: Three Attempts at Synthesis 128 9 British Cultural Studies 144 10 The Production and Reception of Culture 158 11 Culture as Text: Narrative and Hermeneutics 176 12 Psychoanalytic Approaches to Culture and the Self 195 13 The Cultural Analysis of Postmodernism and Postmodernity 207 14 Postmodern and Poststructural Critical Theory 228 15 Cultural Theories of Race and Gender 241 16 The Body in Cultural Theory 262 References 280 Index 296 ...
