Culture and society
Subtitle: contemporary debates
By: edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman.
Contributors: Alexander, Jeffrey C.; Seidman, Steven.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cambridge [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 375
Subjects: Culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Collection of thirty-one extracts from previously published material, 1942-1988.
Table of contents: title: The case for culture; title: Approaches to culture: functionalist, semiotic, dramaturgical, Weberian, Durkheimian, Marxian, poststructuralist; title: The place of religion : is modernity a secular or sacred order?; title: The debate over the "end of ideology" : can secular reason create cultural order?; title: Modernism or postmodernism : dissolution or reconstruction of moral order?