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Cultural Sociology in Practice

Laura Desfor Edles
ISBN: 978-0-631-21090-0
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280 pages
January 1991, Wiley-Blackwell
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List of Figures and Tables.

Acknowledgments.

1. Introduction: What is Culture and How Does Culture Work?.

Part I: Culture and Society:.

2. Religion and Ideology: Systems of Meaning in the Modern (and Postmodern) World.

3. The Media and Popular Culture.

4. Race and Representation.

Part II: Cultural Methodology: Getting a Handle on Culture:.

5. Naturalistic Inquiry: Ethnography, Ethnomethodology, and Dramaturgical Research.

6. Discourse Analysis and Audience/Reception Research: Constructing and Deconstructing Texts, Talk, and Meaning.

7. Structure, Agency, and "Comprehensive" Cultural Sociology.

References.

Index.

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