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Author Featherstone, Mike

Title Undoing culture : globalization, postmoderism and identity / Mike Featherstone
Published London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, 1995

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Description 1 online resource (x, 178 pages)
Series Theory, culture & society
Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
Contents 1. Introduction: Globalizing Cultural Complexity -- 2. The Autonomization of the Cultural Sphere -- 3. Personality, Unity and the Ordered Life -- 4. The Heroic Life and Everyday Life -- 5. Globalizing the Postmodern -- 6. Global and Local Cultures -- 7. Localism, Globalism and Cultural Identity -- 8. Travel, Migration and Images of Social Life
Summary This title explores the formation and deformation of the cultural sphere and the effects on culture of globalization. Against many orthodox postmodernist accounts, the author argues that it is wrong to regard our present state of fragmentation and dislocation as an epochal break. Existing interdependencies and power balances are not so easily broken down
Analysis Kultur Begriff Postmoderne
Weltgesellschaft Kulturwandel
Internationalisierung Kultur
Postmoderne Kultur
Massenkultur
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-171) and index
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Subject Culture
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century
Postmodernism.
Consumers -- History -- 20th century
Modernism (Christian theology)
Social change.
Ethnicity.
Culture
Social Change
culture note.
ethnicity.
culture (concept)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Culture populaire.
Histoire.
Identité culturelle.
Société.
Social change
Modernism (Christian theology)
Ethnicity
Consumers
Culture
Popular culture
Postmodernism
Kultursoziologie
Postmoderne
Identität
Modernisme (cultuur)
Postmodernisme.
Kulturwandel -- Postmoderne.
Postmoderne -- Kulturwandel.
Kulturelle Identität -- Globalisierung.
Globalisierung -- Kulturelle Identität.
Internationalisierung.
Kultur.
Kulturelle Identität.
Massenkultur.
Postmoderne.
Weltgesellschaft.
Culture.
Popular culture -- History -- 20th century.
Postmodernism.
Consumers -- History -- 20th century.
Changement social.
Culture.
Ethnicité
Modernité
Mondialisation.
Postmodernisme.
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0585365504
9780585365503
9781446250457
1446250458
9781848609167
1848609167