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'Bennett provides a well organized, very readable and interesting discussion of a number of significant everyday cultural forms and I am confident student readers will find the book very valuable' - Barry Smart, University of Portsmouth Culture and Everyday Life provides students with a comprehensive overview of theoretical models, issues and examples of contemporary cultural practice. Bennett begins by summarising and situating - in everyday settings - the key theoretical models applied in the study of existing cultural practices. This entails a systematic study of how academic thinking about mass culture has changed, from critical accounts of early mass cultural theorists to radical postmodernist critiques of mass cultural accounts and to 'the cultural turn', which explored how various social identities are culturally constructed. Following this are themed chapters that cover a particular aspect of late modern culture, such as media, music, fashion, tourism and counter-cultural ideologies and movements.In each case a comprehensive literature review is provided and its theoretical and empirical relevance to our understanding of the relationship between culture and everyday life in contemporary society is explained. Lucid, meticulous and illustrated with a host of examples, this is a superb text for teaching and research in the Sociology of Culture and Cultural Studies.

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

• Full title: Culture and Everyday Life
• Author: Andy Bennett
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216
• EAN: 9780761963905
• ISBN: 0761963901
• ID: 04686174
• Publisher: SAGE Publications Inc
• Weight: 332 g
• Dimensions: 232 × 158 × 12 mm
• Date of publishing: 21. July 2005

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