{"product_id":"culture-and-society-contemporary-debates-paperback","title":"Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJeffrey C. Alexander\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eSteven Seidman\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together the major statements by the leading contemporary scholars of cultural analysis on the relation between culture and society. Part One surveys the range of current analytical debate over culture, focusing on the relationship of culture to social structure and power. While individual contributions differ in defining the nature of culture and its relation to society, they are in agreement in assessing the relative autonomy of culture and the centrality of symbolic analysis. Part Two turns to substantive debates, including those over the role of religion, secular ideology, and mass culture and brings to light disputes about the meaning of modernity. The book testifies to the remarkable development in the past two decades of a cultural paradigm for social and political analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis volume brings together major statements by the leading contemporary scholars of cultural analysis. Part I surveys the range of current analytical debate over culture. Part II turns to substantive debates, including those over the role of religion, secular ideology, and mass culture, and brings to light disputes about the meaning of modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 384\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.93 x 9.26 x 5.96 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 31, 1990\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42133358346375,"sku":"9780521359399","price":116.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/d240167a4829cea317588637806c4806.webp?v=1732633673","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/culture-and-society-contemporary-debates-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}