| Description |
viii, 279 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Theory, culture & society |
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Theory, culture & society (Unnumbered)
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| Contents |
Survival as a social construct / Zygmunt Bauman -- Thinking about limits / Pierre Bourdieu -- The uses and abuses of French discourse theories for feminist politics / Nancy Fraser -- On the sociology of intellectual stagnation / Randall Collins -- From industrial society to risk society / Ulrich Beck -- Beyond social movements / Alain Touraine -- Disaggregating the idea of capitalism / Dennis H. Wrong -- The heroic life and everyday life / Mike Featherstone -- Ideology and utopia in the formation of an intelligentsia / Bryan S. Turner -- "Civilization" and the civilizing process / Roland Robertson -- On status competition and emotion management / Cas Wouters -- The man in the mirror / Meaghan Morris |
| Analysis |
Culture |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Culture.
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Social change.
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| Author |
Featherstone, Mike.
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| LC no. |
92145798 |
| ISBN |
0803987439 |
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0803987447 (paperback) |
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