Confronting Culture: Sociological Vistas

Introduction: Sociology and Culture.

1. Setting Up the Terrain: Classical Sociology and Culture.

2. High German Seriousness: The Frankfurt School on Culture.

3. An American Tragedy? Mass Culture in the USA.

4. Reading from Right to Left: Culturalism in England.

5. The Empire of Signs: The Semiotics of Culture.

6. Phantasmagoria: Postmodernism and Culture.

7. In the French Style: The Sociology of Pierre Bourdieu.

8. The Land of the Free? Production of Culture in America and Elsewhere.

Conclusion: Globalization, Reflecivity and the Future.

References.

Index.