| Description |
xiii, 410 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
New directions in cultural analysis ; 2 |
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New directions in cultural analysis ; 2
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| Contents |
Culture : coherent or incoherent / Neil J. Smelser -- The cultic roots of culture / Eugene Halton -- The order-maintaining and order-transforming dimensions of culture / S.N Eisenstadt -- The concept of culture and its place within a theory of social action : a critique of Talcott Parson's theory of culture / Michael Schmid -- Representative culture and cultural representation / Johannes Weiss -- Infrastrucutre and superstructure : revisions in Marxist sociology of culture / Robert Wuthnow -- Collective purpose and culture : findings and implications from some studies of societies / Guy E. Swanson -- Social norms in the institutional culture of the German Federal Parliament / Renate Mayntz -- The production and reproduction of inequality : a theoretical cultural analysis / Richard Münch -- Cultural production, consumption, and the development of the cultural sphere / Mike Featherstone |
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The promise of a cultural sociology : technological discourse and the sacred and profane information machine / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Culture and the locus of work in contemporary western Germany : a Weberian configurational analysis / Stephen Kalberg -- Culture and crisis : making sense of the crisis of the work society / Klaus Eder |
| Analysis |
Culture |
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Culture |
| Notes |
Based on papers from a conference held July 23-25, 1988 in Bremen, sponsored by the Theory Sections of the American Sociological Association and the German Sociological Association |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
A digital reproduction is available from E-Editions, a collaboration of the University of California Press and the California Digital Library's eScholarship program |
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English |
| Subject |
Cultural policy -- Congresses.
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Cultural policy.
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Culture -- Congresses.
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Culture.
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Germany (West) -- Cultural policy -- Congresses.
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Germany (West) -- Cultural policy.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Münch, Richard, 1945-
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Smelser, Neil J.
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American Sociological Association. Theory Section.
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Deutsche Gesellschaft für Soziologie. Sektion Soziologische Theorien.
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| LC no. |
91037737 |
| ISBN |
0520075986 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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0520075994 (paper : alk. paper) |
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