Culture (Key Ideas)

by Chris Jenks (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2004

  $41.90

  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.

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $3.25

  This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the fashionable concept of culture. It argues that culture has many different meanings - derived from areas as diverse as philosophy, aesthetics, literary criticism, anthropology and sociology - and that culture is a concept to be viewed within traditions, not as a modern invention. Features: examines culture's relation to social structure, literary study, postmodernism, idealism and materialism addresses cultural populization and cultural reproduction provides the grounds for understanding modern work rather than a competitive review of the new' in cultural studies provides readers with a clear and compelling assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of the cultural studies approach Chris Jenks has taught undergraduates on courses in communication studies and sociology for a decade, helped to establish and teach a successful Masters degree programme in communication, culture and society, taught courses on cultural reproduction and has recently edited a text entitled Cultural Reproduction .