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This four volume collection brings together papers from a range of different journals from different fields, sub-disciplines and disciplines that address the central problem of the relation between culture and society. In doing so, it frames understandings of experience, text, meaning, power, stratification, identity, representation, practice, discourse, materiality, image, technology, and the many other concepts and categories in the context of this fundamental interrelationship. Although the themes of culture and society provide the broad parameters of these four volumes, "Cultural Theory" makes visible some of the different objects of theoretical discourse that different schools of thought and theoretical paradigms have thrown before us. The four volumes traverse the disciplines of, amongst others, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, literary theory, media and communication studies, and science and technology studies, to provide a sense of the development and extension of cultural theory from initial and longstanding questions about power and agency, ordinary and popular cultural practice, and representation to ones about the body, sensory experience and identity to the changing natural and built environment and questions about global humanity and justice to developments in the global cultural economy concerning information, technology and value. Throughout this collection, the editor offers a coherent, complex, and multiply inflected narrative which is both grounded in the substantive histories of the field and oriented to some of its most exciting and forward looking ideas and prospects.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Cultural studies

• Full title: Cultural Theory
• Author: David Oswell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 1648
• EAN: 9781848607057
• ISBN: 1848607059
• ID: 01264582
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Weight: 3210 g
• Dimensions: 234 × 156 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 19. August 2010

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