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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495886103321

Titolo

Theory of culture / / edited by Richard Münch and Neil J. Smelser [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1992

ISBN

0-585-29938-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 410 p. ) : ill. ;

Collana

New directions in cultural analysis  Theory of culture

New directions in cultural analysis ; ; 2

Altri autori (Persone)

MünchRichard <1945->

SmelserNeil J

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Culture

Cultural policy

Culture - Congresses

Cultural policy - Congresses

Social Change

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Conference proceedings.

Germany (West) Cultural policy Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

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.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

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.