{"product_id":"beyond-the-cultural-turn-new-directions-in-the-study-of-society-and-culture-volume-34-paperback","title":"Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture Volume 34 - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictoria E. Bonnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eLynn Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eHayden White\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNothing 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond the Cultural Turn\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eVictoria E. Bonnell\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, author of \u003ci\u003eIconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1997), and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1983), among other works. \u003cb\u003eLynn Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e is Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and is author of \u003ci\u003eThe Family Romance of the French Revolution\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1992), and editor of \u003ci\u003eThe New Cultural History\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1989), among other works.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 361\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.06 x 8.99 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 05, 1999\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133490663559,"sku":"9780520216792","price":61.11,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/21717c3e109eb6080fe450334466a1be.webp?v=1732634738","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/beyond-the-cultural-turn-new-directions-in-the-study-of-society-and-culture-volume-34-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}