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Society Culture Politics - HOME Society Culture Politics Culture and Politics: A Reader by Lane Crothers, Political culture is one of the central, but most difficult, concepts in political science. "Culture and Politics: A Reader explores this concept by compiling previously-published works that focus on the core themes of political culture research: Concepts and Applications, Culture and Globalization, Popular Culture, Civil Society and Social Capital, Social Movements and Collective Identity, Culture and Political Change, and Culture and Rationality. Each section includes general and article introductions as well as a "suggested reading" list. Taken together, these features ...
Society Culture People - HOME Society Culture People Culture and Subjective Well-Being by Ed Diener, The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB).A potential problem in studying SWB across societies is that of cultural relativism: if societies have different values, the members of those societies will use different criteria ...
Society Culture Politics - HOME Society Culture Politics Culture and Politics: A Reader by Lane Crothers, Political culture is one of the central, but most difficult, concepts in political science. "Culture and Politics: A Reader explores this concept by compiling previously-published works that focus on the core themes of political culture research: Concepts and Applications, Culture and Globalization, Popular Culture, Civil Society and Social Capital, Social Movements and Collective Identity, Culture and Political Change, and Culture and Rationality. Each section includes general and article introductions as well as a "suggested reading" list. Taken together, these features ...
Society and Culture - HOME Society and Culture Black British Culture and Society: A Text-Reader Black British Culture and Society examines the postwar Afro-Caribbean diaspora, tracing the transformations of Black culture as it establishes itself in British society. Combining classic texts on Black British life with eighteen new articles, Kwesi Owusu's collection represents the rich diversity of the Black British experience. Contributors explore key facets of Black experience, charting Black Britons' struggles to carve out their own identity and status in an often hostile society. From performance poetry and the politics of Black hairstyles ...
Society and Culture - HOME Society and Culture Black British Culture and Society: A Text-Reader Black British Culture and Society examines the postwar Afro-Caribbean diaspora, tracing the transformations of Black culture as it establishes itself in British society. Combining classic texts on Black British life with eighteen new articles, Kwesi Owusu's collection represents the rich diversity of the Black British experience. Contributors explore key facets of Black experience, charting Black Britons' struggles to carve out their own identity and status in an often hostile society. From performance poetry and the politics of Black hairstyles ...
Culture Early Nomadic Pastoral Society Society - HOME Culture Early Nomadic Pastoral Society Society Mongols from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastorialism and City Life in the Mongol Lands Mongols from Country to City examines the process of cultural change in Mongol societies since the early twentieth century by considering: the interaction of the basic structural features of pastoral nomadism in Mongolia with larger economies, both communist and capitalist; the effect of deliberate cultural reconstruction (ranging from changes to the education system to purges and outright cultural destruction) on the conduct of the pastoral economy; and the efforts of Mongols ...
Society and Culture - HOME Society and Culture Black British Culture and Society: A Text-Reader Black British Culture and Society examines the postwar Afro-Caribbean diaspora, tracing the transformations of Black culture as it establishes itself in British society. Combining classic texts on Black British life with eighteen new articles, Kwesi Owusu's collection represents the rich diversity of the Black British experience. Contributors explore key facets of Black experience, charting Black Britons' struggles to carve out their own identity and status in an often hostile society. From performance poetry and the politics of Black hairstyles ...
Society Culture People - HOME Society Culture People Culture and Subjective Well-Being by Ed Diener, The question of what constitutes the good life has been pondered for millennia. Yet only in the last decades has the study of well-being become a scientific endeavor. This book is based on the idea that we can empirically study quality of life and make cross-society comparisons of subjective well-being (SWB).A potential problem in studying SWB across societies is that of cultural relativism: if societies have different values, the members of those societies will use different criteria ...
Society and Culture - HOME Society and Culture Black British Culture and Society: A Text-Reader Black British Culture and Society examines the postwar Afro-Caribbean diaspora, tracing the transformations of Black culture as it establishes itself in British society. Combining classic texts on Black British life with eighteen new articles, Kwesi Owusu's collection represents the rich diversity of the Black British experience. Contributors explore key facets of Black experience, charting Black Britons' struggles to carve out their own identity and status in an often hostile society. From performance poetry and the politics of Black hairstyles ...
Culture Society Activism - HOME Culture Society Activism Culture Moves: Ideas, Activism, and Changing Values by Thomas R. Rochon, Some periods in history are marked by stability in cultural values; at other times, values undergo rapid change. How and why do cultural transformations, such as those affecting race and gender relations, take place? How does one value win acceptance in society when there are conflicting values competing for attention? In "Culture Moves, Thomas Rochon addresses this complex process and develops a theory to explain both how values originate and how they spread. In particular, he analyzes the ...
Culture Matriarchial Society - HOME Culture Matriarchial Society Black British Culture and Society: A Text-Reader Black British Culture and Society examines the postwar Afro-Caribbean diaspora, tracing the transformations of Black culture as it establishes itself in British society. Combining classic texts on Black British life with eighteen new articles, Kwesi Owusu's collection represents the rich diversity of the Black British experience. Contributors explore key facets of Black experience, charting Black Britons' struggles to carve out their own identity and status in an often hostile society. From performance poetry and the politics of Black hairstyles ...
Language Culture and Society - HOME Language Culture and Society Exploring Language Now in its tenth edition, this market-leading language reader continues to feature thought-provoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society. For over 25 years, this engaging reader has challenged individuals to critically examine how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language. This tenth edition maintains the integrity of past editions, while reflecting the new and fascinating language issues that exist in today's culture. Provocative selections are organized around nine major language areas, and then ...
Society Culture Group - HOME Society Culture Group Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary by Anna Szemere, What happens to a community of oppositional artists when the purpose and meaning of their opposition are undermined by social transformation? Such was the dilemma facing many underground artists in Eastern Europe following the collapse of state socialism. In Up from the Underground, Anna Szemere looks at the rock-music-based underground in Hungary, showing how it anticipated, precipitated, and responded to a period of fundamental change. Szemere's work focuses on a community ...
Culture Early Nomadic Pastoral Society Society - HOME Culture Early Nomadic Pastoral Society Society Mongols from Country to City: Floating Boundaries, Pastorialism and City Life in the Mongol Lands Mongols from Country to City examines the process of cultural change in Mongol societies since the early twentieth century by considering: the interaction of the basic structural features of pastoral nomadism in Mongolia with larger economies, both communist and capitalist; the effect of deliberate cultural reconstruction (ranging from changes to the education system to purges and outright cultural destruction) on the conduct of the pastoral economy; and the efforts of Mongols ...
Society Culture Group - HOME Society Culture Group Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary by Anna Szemere, What happens to a community of oppositional artists when the purpose and meaning of their opposition are undermined by social transformation? Such was the dilemma facing many underground artists in Eastern Europe following the collapse of state socialism. In Up from the Underground, Anna Szemere looks at the rock-music-based underground in Hungary, showing how it anticipated, precipitated, and responded to a period of fundamental change. Szemere's work focuses on a community ...
Culture Matriarchial Society - HOME Culture Matriarchial Society Black British Culture and Society: A Text-Reader Black British Culture and Society examines the postwar Afro-Caribbean diaspora, tracing the transformations of Black culture as it establishes itself in British society. Combining classic texts on Black British life with eighteen new articles, Kwesi Owusu's collection represents the rich diversity of the Black British experience. Contributors explore key facets of Black experience, charting Black Britons' struggles to carve out their own identity and status in an often hostile society. From performance poetry and the politics of Black hairstyles ...
Society Subculture Lounge Culture - HOME Society Subculture Lounge Culture An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio Sugimoto, In a second edition of his book which has become essential reading for students of Japanese society, Yoshio Sugimoto uses both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narrative. In so doing he challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture, and draws attention to its subcultural diversity and class competition. The author also examines what he calls 'friendly authoritarianism' - the force behind the Japanese tendency to be ostensibly faithful to particular groups and ...
Language Culture and Society - HOME Language Culture and Society Exploring Language Now in its tenth edition, this market-leading language reader continues to feature thought-provoking readings that explore the various interconnections between language and American society. For over 25 years, this engaging reader has challenged individuals to critically examine how language affects and constructs culture and how culture constructs and affects language. This tenth edition maintains the integrity of past editions, while reflecting the new and fascinating language issues that exist in today's culture. Provocative selections are organized around nine major language areas, and then ...
Media Culture and Society - HOME Media Culture and Society Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern by Douglas Kellner, Media Culture develops methods and analyses of contemporary film, television, music, and other artifacts to discern their nature and effects. The book argues that media culture is now the dominant form of culture which socializes us and provides materials for identity in terms of both social reproduction and change. Through studies of Reagan and Rambo, horror films and youth films, rap music and African-American culture, Madonna, fashion, television news and entertainment, ...
Culture Organization Society - HOME Culture Organization Society The Hawaiian Spinner Dolphin by Kenneth S. Norris, This absorbing book is the first comprehensive scientific natural history of a dolphin species ever written. From their research camp at Kealake'akua Bay in Hawaii, the authors followed a population of wild spinner dolphins for more than twenty years. They observed marked animals by ship, by air, from a cliffside observation post, by radiotracking their movements, and by studying the details of their underwater social life with the use of a windowed underwater vessel. Beginning with a description of the ...
Religion Society Culture - HOME Religion Society Culture Society, Religion, And Culture in Seventeenth Century Nottinghamshire: Society, Religion, And Culture in 17th Century Nottinghamshire Society, Religion, And Culture in Seventeenth Century Nottinghamshire: Society, Religion, And Culture in 17th Century Nottinghamshire Death, Trust and Society: Mapping Religion and Culture Lionel Rothkrug made his name 25 years ago by theorizing that just as a human personality is defined by how an individual organizes his or her powers to behave, so a society acquires personality in the exercise of its organizational powers. "Mapping Religion and Culture revisits and expands on ...
Media Culture and Society - HOME Media Culture and Society Media Culture: Cultural Studies, Identity, and Politics Between the Modern and the Postmodern by Douglas Kellner, Media Culture develops methods and analyses of contemporary film, television, music, and other artifacts to discern their nature and effects. The book argues that media culture is now the dominant form of culture which socializes us and provides materials for identity in terms of both social reproduction and change. Through studies of Reagan and Rambo, horror films and youth films, rap music and African-American culture, Madonna, fashion, television news and entertainment, ...
Religion Society Culture - HOME Religion Society Culture Society, Religion, And Culture in Seventeenth Century Nottinghamshire: Society, Religion, And Culture in 17th Century Nottinghamshire Society, Religion, And Culture in Seventeenth Century Nottinghamshire: Society, Religion, And Culture in 17th Century Nottinghamshire Death, Trust and Society: Mapping Religion and Culture Lionel Rothkrug made his name 25 years ago by theorizing that just as a human personality is defined by how an individual organizes his or her powers to behave, so a society acquires personality in the exercise of its organizational powers. "Mapping Religion and Culture revisits and expands on ...
Culture History Society - HOME Culture History Society Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People by Linda Civitello, An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets Throughout history, food has played a critical and defining part in individual cultures and the overall development of civilization. Cuisine and Culture presents an engaging, informative, and amazing story of the interaction among history, culture, and food that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies. Covering prehistory and the earliest societies around the Tigris ...
Raymond Williams Culture and Society - HOME Raymond Williams Culture and Society The Sociology of Culture by Raymond Williams, Raymond Williams helped to establish the field of cultural sociology with "Marxism and Literature and "Culture and Society. Continuing the work of those studies, "The Sociology of Culture offers debate on the origin and evolution of culture. It defines sociology of culture as a convergence of various fields and explores ways in which culture is socially mediated. "A historical analysis of the social organization of culture in terms of its institutions and formations. Insisting that the term sociology of culture ...
Culture Genealogy Society - HOME Culture Genealogy Society Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries by Liu Kang, Although Chinese Marxism -- primarily represented by Maoism -- is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics and culture in their theories and practices. In doing so, he constructs a wholly new understanding of ...
American Culture and Society - HOME American Culture and Society Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society "Critics against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society--a collection of essays on the history of anthropology focused on Benedict, Boas, Sapir, and modernist thought by one of American anthropology's leading scholars--explores the roots of anthropology's early involvement with the study of American society. The essays making up this volume, focused on the critique of mass society and the history of the culture concept, examine Boasian anthropologists as critics of mass society. The book also includes two ...
Culture Genealogy Society - HOME Culture Genealogy Society Aesthetics and Marxism: Chinese Aesthetic Marxists and Their Western Contemporaries by Liu Kang, Although Chinese Marxism -- primarily represented by Maoism -- is generally seen by Western intellectuals as monolithic, Liu Kang argues that its practices and projects are as diverse as those in Western Marxism, particularly in the area of aesthetics. In this comparative study of European and Chinese Marxist traditions, Liu reveals the extent to which Chinese Marxists incorporate ideas about aesthetics and culture in their theories and practices. In doing so, he constructs a wholly new understanding of ...
Society Subculture Lounge Culture - HOME Society Subculture Lounge Culture An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio Sugimoto, In a second edition of his book which has become essential reading for students of Japanese society, Yoshio Sugimoto uses both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narrative. In so doing he challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture, and draws attention to its subcultural diversity and class competition. The author also examines what he calls 'friendly authoritarianism' - the force behind the Japanese tendency to be ostensibly faithful to particular groups and ...
Association Culture Estonian Society - HOME Association Culture Estonian Society The Claims of Culture: Equality and Diversity in the Global Era by Seyla Benhabib, How can liberal democracy best be realized in a world fraught with conflicting new forms of identity politics and intensifying conflicts over culture? This book brings unparalleled clarity to the contemporary debate over this question. Maintaining that cultures are themselves torn by conflicts about their own boundaries, Seyla Benhabib challenges the assumption shared by many theorists and activists that cultures are clearly defined wholes. She argues that much debate--including that of "strong" multiculturalism, ...
American Culture and Society - HOME American Culture and Society Critics Against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society "Critics against Culture: Anthropological Observers of Mass Society--a collection of essays on the history of anthropology focused on Benedict, Boas, Sapir, and modernist thought by one of American anthropology's leading scholars--explores the roots of anthropology's early involvement with the study of American society. The essays making up this volume, focused on the critique of mass society and the history of the culture concept, examine Boasian anthropologists as critics of mass society. The book also includes two ...
Japanese Culture and Society - HOME Japanese Culture and Society An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio Sugimoto, In a second edition of his book which has become essential reading for students of Japanese society, Yoshio Sugimoto uses both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narrative. In so doing he challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture, and draws attention to its subcultural diversity and class competition. The author also examines what he calls 'friendly authoritarianism' - the force behind the Japanese tendency to be ostensibly faithful to particular groups and ...
Woman Culture and Society - HOME Woman Culture and Society Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women by Margaret Finnegan, Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women found it in their political interest to ally themselves with the rise of ...
Culture History Society - HOME Culture History Society Cuisine and Culture: A History of Food and People by Linda Civitello, An illuminating account of how history shapes our diets Throughout history, food has played a critical and defining part in individual cultures and the overall development of civilization. Cuisine and Culture presents an engaging, informative, and amazing story of the interaction among history, culture, and food that draws connections between major historical events and how and why these events affected and defined the culinary traditions of different societies. Covering prehistory and the earliest societies around the Tigris ...
Culture Society Ethnicity - HOME Culture Society Ethnicity Ethnic Identity and Power Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society by Yali Zou, X The relationship between ethnic identity and power has important consequences in a modern world that is changing rapidly through global immigration trends. Studies of ethnic/ racial conflict of ethnic identity and power become necessarily studies of political power, social status, school achievement, and allocation of resources. The recognition of power by an ethnic group, however, creates a competition for control and a rivalry for power over public arenas, such as schools. In ...
Raymond Williams Culture and Society - HOME Raymond Williams Culture and Society The Sociology of Culture by Raymond Williams, Raymond Williams helped to establish the field of cultural sociology with "Marxism and Literature and "Culture and Society. Continuing the work of those studies, "The Sociology of Culture offers debate on the origin and evolution of culture. It defines sociology of culture as a convergence of various fields and explores ways in which culture is socially mediated. "A historical analysis of the social organization of culture in terms of its institutions and formations. Insisting that the term sociology of culture ...
Culture Society Ethnicity - HOME Culture Society Ethnicity Ethnic Identity and Power Cultural Contexts of Political Action in School and Society by Yali Zou, X The relationship between ethnic identity and power has important consequences in a modern world that is changing rapidly through global immigration trends. Studies of ethnic/ racial conflict of ethnic identity and power become necessarily studies of political power, social status, school achievement, and allocation of resources. The recognition of power by an ethnic group, however, creates a competition for control and a rivalry for power over public arenas, such as schools. In ...
Japanese Culture and Society - HOME Japanese Culture and Society An Introduction to Japanese Society by Yoshio Sugimoto, In a second edition of his book which has become essential reading for students of Japanese society, Yoshio Sugimoto uses both English and Japanese sources to update and expand upon his original narrative. In so doing he challenges the traditional notion that Japan comprises a uniform culture, and draws attention to its subcultural diversity and class competition. The author also examines what he calls 'friendly authoritarianism' - the force behind the Japanese tendency to be ostensibly faithful to particular groups and ...
Woman Culture and Society - HOME Woman Culture and Society Selling Suffrage: Consumer Culture and Votes for Women by Margaret Finnegan, Margaret Finnegan's pathbreaking study of woman suffrage from the 1850s to the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 reveals how activists came to identify with consumer culture and employ its methods of publicity to win popular support through carefully crafted images of enfranchised women as "personable, likable, and modern." Drawing on organization records, suffragists' papers and memoirs, and newspapers and magazines, Finnegan shows how women found it in their political interest to ally themselves with the rise of ...
Theory Culture and Society - HOME Theory Culture and Society The Body: Social Process and Cultural Theory by Mike Featherstone, This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. At a theoretical level, the volume explores the origins of a social theory of the body in sources ranging from the work of Nietzsche to contemporary feminist theory. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies. These range ...
One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination Of American Society In The Aftermath Of Our Cultural Revolution (Vintage) (Paperback) : The renowned historian and cultural critic provides an eye-opening study of the dichotomy in American societ...
Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction To Social And Cultural Anthropology (Anthropology, Culture, And Society) (Paperback) : Author: Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. Number of Pages: 342. Published On: 2001/07/01. Language: ENGLISH
Food is Culture : Elegantly written by a distinguished culinary historian, Food Is Culture explores the innovative premise tha...
Americans At War: Society, Culture, And The Homefront (Hardcover) : Examines the effect of war on American society, culture, and national identity in 395 contributed articles. ...
The Modern Temper: American Culture And Society In The 1920s (Paperback) : Offers a broad view of American culture during the 1920s, discussing the changing values that ended the repr...
Power and Ideology in American Sport - 2nd Edition Book (Copyright 1998, 352 pages) : This popular, widely acclaimed analysis of sport in America is now completely updated, with expanded treatme...
Communication As Culture: Essays On Media And Society (Media And Popular Culture 1) (Paperback) : Author: Carey, James W. Published On: 1988/12/01. Language: ENGLISH
The Worlds Of Japanese Popular Culture: Gender, Shifting Boundaries And Global Cultures (Contemporary Japanese Society) (Paperback) : Author: Martinez, Dolores P. (EDT). Number of Pages: 224. Published On: 1998/11/01. Language: ENGLISH
Thinking Through Material Culture: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (Archaeology, Culture, And Society) (Hardcover) : Author: Knappett, Carl. Number of Pages: 202. Published On: 2005/01/30. Language: ENGLISH
A Peculiar People: The Church As Culture In A Post-Christian Society (Paperback) : Looks at the Christian faith as a subculture within modern society at large. Author: Clapp, Rodney. Number o...