Culture: Critical Concepts in Sociology, Volume 3

Couverture
Chris Jenks
Taylor & Francis, 2003 - 312 pages
Culture is a concept that has remained on the top of the agenda within the social sciences for two decades. It incites controversy and debate and always appears fresh. This book, updated throughout and with new sections on visual culture, urban culture and subcultures, argues that to understand the concept we need to locate it within traditions of thought and appreciate its political and ideological bases. The book looks at the concept of culture in the context of idealism and materialism, examining its relation to the notion of social structure and assessing its once assumed monopoly within literary study. Culture remains stimulating throughout. A standard reference text for students on sociology and cultural studies courses, this second concise and student-friendly edition offers an overview over the sociology of culture in an accessible format.
 

Table des matières

The two cultures
3
Elites oligarchies and an educated public
14
Social mobility reactions to evaluation
31
Them and Us 62
39
Cultural reproduction and social reproduction
63
a model
100
The role of ideology in cultural reproduction
145
On reproduction habitus and education
164
Cultural production and theories of reproduction
178
Pierre Bourdieu and the reproduction of determinism
203
the meaning of style 1979
221
The social logic of subcultural capital 1995
235
A general theory of subcultures
259
The concept of subculture and its application
296
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