Culture and Everyday Life

✍ Scribed by Andy Bennett

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Year: 2005
Tongue: English
Leaves: 216
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical models, issues and examples of contemporary cultural practice. Andy Bennett begins by summarising and situating - in everyday settings - the key theoretical models applied in the study of existing cultural practices. This entails a systematic study of how academic thinking about mass culture has changed, from critical accounts of early mass cultural theorists to radical postmodernist critiques of mass cultural accounts and to 'the cultural turn', which explored how various social identities are culturally constructed.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Prelims......Page 2
Contents......Page 8
Introduction......Page 10
Part I - Everyday Life and Social Theory
......Page 18
TWO Postmodernism......Page 41
THREE The Cultural Turn......Page 63
Part II
The Cultural Terrains of
Everyday Life......Page 82
FIVE Fashion......Page 104
SIX Music......Page 126
SEVEN Tourism......Page 150
EIGHT Counter-Cultures......Page 169
Bibliography......Page 190
Index......Page 210

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