| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 350 pages) |
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Studies on the history of society and culture ; 34 |
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Studies on the history of society and culture ; 34.
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| Contents |
Introduction / Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt -- pt. 1. Culture as Concept and Practice. 1. The Concept(s) of Culture / William H. Sewell, Jr. 2. Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History / Richard Biernacki -- pt. 2. Knowledge in the Social Sciences. 3. Science Studies after Social Construction: The Turn toward the Comparative and the Global / Margaret C. Jacob. 4. The Privatization of Citizenship: How to Unthink a Knowledge Culture / Margaret R. Somers -- pt. 3. Narrative, Discourse, and Problems of Representation. 5. Cultural History and the Challenge of Narrativity / Karen Halttunen. 6. Colonizers, Scholars, and the Creation of Invisible Histories / Steven Feierman. 7. Cultural Analysis and Moral Discourses: Episodes, Continuities, and Transformations / Sonya O. Rose -- pt. 4. Reconstructing the Categories of Body and Self. 8. Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective / Caroline Bynum. 9. Problematizing the Self / Jerrold Seigel -- Afterword / Hayden White |
| Summary |
Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research |
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The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the cultural turn and its postmodernist critiques of knowledge. Essays by leading historians and historical sociologists reflect on the uses of cultural theories and show both their promise and their limitations. The afterword by Hayden White provides an assessment of the trend toward culturalism by one its most influential proponents |
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Beyond the Cultural Turn offers fresh theoretical readings of the most persistent issues created by the cultural turn and provocative empirical studies focusing on diverse social practices, the uses of narrative, and the body and self as critical junctures where culture and society intersect |
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comparative |
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controversy |
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cultural practice |
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cultural studies |
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culturalism |
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hayden white |
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historical research |
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history |
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invisible history |
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knowledge culture |
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knowledge |
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narrative discourse |
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narrative theory |
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narrative |
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narrativity |
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new cultural history |
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postmodernism |
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postmodernity |
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privatization of citizenship |
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representation |
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research practices |
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science studies |
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social construction |
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social practices |
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social sciences |
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sociology |
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studies on the history of society and culture series |
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study of history |
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study of society |
| Notes |
Papers presented at a conference held Apr. 26-27, 1996 in California |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Print version record |
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Historical sociology -- Congresses
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Social history -- Congresses
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Culture -- Congresses
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Historical sociology -- Congresses
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Social history -- Congresses
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Culture -- Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
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Culture
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Historical sociology
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Social history
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Kultur
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Historische Soziologie
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Cultuur.
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Cultuurgeschiedenis (wetenschap)
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Sociologie historique -- Congrès.
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Histoire sociale -- Congrès.
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Culture -- Congrès.
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Historisk metod.
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Samhällsvetenskap -- metodik.
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Berkeley <Calif., 1996>
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Bonnell, Victoria E., editor
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Hunt, Lynn, 1945- editor.
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Biernacki, Richard, 1956- author.
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Bynum, Caroline, author
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Feierman, Steven, author
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Halttunen, Karen, 1951- author.
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Jacob, Margaret C., author
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Rose, Sonya O., author.
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Seigel, Jerrold, author
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Sewell, William H., Jr., 1940- author.
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Somers, Margaret R., author.
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| ISBN |
0520216784 |
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9780520216785 |
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0520216792 |
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9780520216792 |
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9780520922167 |
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0520922166 |
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