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Author |
: David Gartman |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 190 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415524209 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415524202 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis Culture, Class, and Critical Theory by : David Gartman
This volume focuses on developing a theory of culture that reveals how ideas create and legitimize social inequality, using empirical case studies ranging from automobile design to architecture to compare and critique two of the most influential theories of culture in contemporary sociology. It questions to what extent our culture reflects class inequality, and to what extent our culture masks those inequalities through the sameness of unified mass culture.
Author |
: David Gartman |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0203080815 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780203080818 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Culture, Class, and Critical Theory by : David Gartman
Culture, Class, and Critical Theory develops a theory of culture that explains how ideas create and legitimate class inequalities in modern society. This theory is developed through a critique and comparison of the powerful ideas on culture offered by Pierre Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School thinkers, especially Theodor Adorno. These ideas are illuminated and criticized through the development of two empirical cases on which Gartman has published extensively, automobile design and architecture. Bourdieu and the Frankfurt School postulate opposite theories of the cultural legitimation of class inequalities. Bourdieu argues that the culture of modern society is a class culture, a ranked diversity of beliefs and tastes corresponding to different classes. The cultural beliefs and practices of the dominant class are arbitrarily defined as superior, thus legitimating its greater share of social resources. By contrast, the thinkers of the Frankfurt School conceive of modern culture as a mass culture, a leveled homogeneity in which the ideas and tastes shared by all classes disguises real class inequalities. This creates the illusion of an egalitarian democracy that prevents inequalities from being contested. Through an empirical assessment of the theories against the cases, Gartman reveals that both are correct, but for different parts of modern culture. These parts combine to provide a strong legitimation of class inequalities.
Author |
: Ben Agger |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 2014-05-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134080175 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134080174 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis Cultural Studies As Critical Theory by : Ben Agger
Examines the field of cultural studies and argues for its relevance in addressing the enormous impact of popular culture and mass media today. Among the perspectives analysed are the Marxist sociology of culture and poststructural/postmodern analysis
Author |
: Imre Szeman |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 588 |
Release |
: 2017-09-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781118472316 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1118472314 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Companion to Critical and Cultural Theory by : Imre Szeman
This Companion addresses the contemporary transformation of critical and cultural theory, with special emphasis on the way debates in the field have changed in recent decades. Features original essays from an international team of cultural theorists which offer fresh and compelling perspectives and sketch out exciting new areas of theoretical inquiry Thoughtfully organized into two sections – lineages and problematics – that facilitate its use both by students new to the field and advanced scholars and researchers Explains key schools and movements clearly and succinctly, situating them in relation to broader developments in culture, society, and politics Tackles issues that have shaped and energized the field since the Second World War, with discussion of familiar and under-theorized topics related to living and laboring, being and knowing, and agency and belonging
Author |
: Neil Badmington |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0415433088 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780415433082 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Routledge Critical and Cultural Theory Reader by : Neil Badmington
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author |
: Max Horkheimer |
Publisher |
: A&C Black |
Total Pages |
: 313 |
Release |
: 1972-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780826400833 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0826400833 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical Theory by : Max Horkheimer
These essays, written in the 1930s and 1940s, represent a first selection in English from the major work of the founder of the famous Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. Horkheimer's writings are essential to an understanding of the intellectual background of the New Left and the to much current social-philosophical thought, including the work of Herbert Marcuse. Apart from their historical significance and even from their scholarly eminence, these essays contain an immediate relevance only now becoming fully recognized.
Author |
: David Bruce Suchoff |
Publisher |
: Univ of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages |
: 236 |
Release |
: 1994 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0299140849 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780299140847 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (49 Downloads) |
Synopsis Critical Theory and the Novel by : David Bruce Suchoff
A study of the historical origins of cultural criticism in the novel since the mid-19th century, using the critical theory of the Frankfurt School to declare the critical force of mass culture as crucial to the making of the modern novel. Discusses how mass audiences and politics presented problems to major novelists and how they responded in their writings and lives. Paper edition (unseen), $19.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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: |
Publisher |
: BRILL |
Total Pages |
: 334 |
Release |
: 2017-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789004319523 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9004319522 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Considering Class: Theory, Culture and the Media in the 21st Century by :
Considering Class: Theory, Culture and Media in the 21st Century offers the reader international and interdisciplinary perspectives on the importance of class analysis in the 21st century. Political economists, sociologists, educationalists, ethnographers, cultural and media analysts combine to provide a multi-dimensional account of current class dynamics. The crisis consists precisely in the gap between the objective reality and efficacy of class forces shaping international politics and the relative paucity of class-consciousness at a popular level and appreciation of class as an explanatory optic at a theoretical level. This important book shows why the process of reconstructing class consciousness must also take place on the ground of cultural and subjective formation where everyday values, habits and media practices are in play. Contributors are: Anita Biressi, Joseph Choonara, Maurizio Donato, Danny Dorling, Mark Gibson, Craig Haslop, Dave Hill, Peter Jakobsson, Marina Kabat, Holly Lewis, Catherine Lumby, Lisa Mckenzie, Tony Moore, Adrian Murray, Deirdre O’Neill, Jonathan Pratschke, Michael Seltzer, Eduardo Sartelli, Fredrik Stiernstedt, Roberto Taddeo, Mike Wayne, Milly Williamson, Ferruh Yılmaz.
Author |
: Bridget Fowler |
Publisher |
: SAGE |
Total Pages |
: 209 |
Release |
: 1997-01-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781848609099 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1848609094 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis Pierre Bourdieu and Cultural Theory by : Bridget Fowler
This is the first comprehensive description of Pierre Bourdieu′s theory of culture and habitus. Within the wider intellectual context of Bourdieu′s work, this book provides a systematic reading of his assessment of the role of `cultural capital′ in the production and consumption of symbolic goods. Bridget Fowler outlines the key critical debates that inform Bourdieu′s work. She introduces his recent treatment of the rules of art, explains the importance of his concept of capital - economic and social, symbolic and cultural - and defines such key terms as habitus, practice and strategy, legitimate culture, popular art and distinction. The book focuses particularly on Bourdieu′s account of the nature of capitalist modernity, on the emergence of bohemia and, with the growth of the market, the invention of the artist as the main historical response to the changed place of art.
Author |
: Michael Payne |
Publisher |
: John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages |
: 834 |
Release |
: 2013-05-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781118438817 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1118438817 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Dictionary of Cultural and Critical Theory by : Michael Payne
Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern ideas in the broad interdisciplinary fields of cultural and critical theory Updated to feature over 40 new entries including pieces on Alain Badiou, Ecocriticism, Comparative Racialization , Ordinary Language Philosophy and Criticism, and Graphic Narrative Includes reflective, broad-ranging articles from leading theorists including Julia Kristeva, Stanley Cavell, and Simon Critchley Features a fully updated bibliography Wide-ranging content makes this an invaluable dictionary for students of a diverse range of disciplines