Culture, Society, and Democracy: The Interpretive Approach / Edition 1

by Isaac Reed, Jeffrey C. Alexander

Overview

This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer the Left. Written by leading scholars, it develops new conceptions of social critique, new techniques of interpretive analysis, and new concepts for the sociology of democratic practice. It is a volume for the twenty-first-century, where global and local meet, when critical theory must examine its most fundamental presuppositions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781594513428
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	08/30/2007
Series:	Yale Cultural Sociology Series
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Isaac Reed, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Nina Eliasoph, J. Nicholas Entrikin, Ronald N. Jacobs, Fuyuki Kurasawa

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Cultural Sociology and the Democratic Imperative, Isaac Reed; Chapter 2 Invitation to a Practical Cultural Sociology, Paul Lichterman; Chapter 3 Beyond the Politics of Denunciation, Nina Eliasoph; Chapter 4 From Mass to Public, Ronald N. Jacobs; Chapter 5 The Healing of Wounds, Fuyuki Kurasawa; Chapter 6 Place Destruction and Cultural Trauma, J. Nicholas Entrikin; Chapter 7 The Social Structure of Denial, Eviatar Zerubavel;