ISBN:
9780739125984
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (338 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Co-opting Culture : Culture and Power in Sociology and Cultural Studies
DDC:
306.01
Keywords:
Power (Philosophy)
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Working from the idea that Sociology and Cultural Studies have developed distinct and valuable toolkits for understanding culture, Harden and Carley have brought together a collection of essays that address the ways in which the cultures around race, sex, and gender are mediated through or intersect with politics, society, and economy
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Theory; Chapter 1: Defrocking the ""High Priest of Modernity:"" Anthony Giddens and the Misappropriation of Trust in Radical Modernity; Chapter 2: Power, Culture, and Hegemony: A Theoretical Exploration of Gesellschaft; Chapter 3: The Unicorn is Dead: Postmodernism, Consumption, and the Production of the ""Self'; Chapter 4: Some Brief Notes toward a Labor-Based Theory of Culture; Part 2: Gender and Sexuality
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5: Gender Queer Productions and the Bridge of Cultural Legitimacy: ""Realness"" and ""Identity"" in Paris is BurningChapter 6: Ambiguity Will Not Stand: An Exploratory Study of Transsexuality, and the Intimate Relationship between Sex, Race, Technology, Nature, and the ""Nature"" of Desire; Part 3: Globalization; Chapter 7: Inter(sex)tions: Gender, Culture, and Globalization; Chapter 8: Popular Classes and Neoliberalism: The Practices of Television Mediators in Argentina; Chapter 9: Modernity, Development, Hegemony: Social Change and Ethnic Assimilation in the Lower Rio Grande Valley
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10: ""Like the Wildest Creation of a Dream"": Dialectics, Visualization Technologies, and Aesthetics in the Writings of Francis Younghusband, George Mallory, and the Members of the 1999 Mallory & Irvine Research ExpeditionPart 4: Popular Culture; Chapter 11: Racial Determinism and the Interlocking Economies of Power and Violence in Dungeons and Dragons; Chapter 12: Heebsters: Community and Identity (Re)construction of Urban Jewish Hipsters; Chapter 13: In Blog We Trust -An Antiphon; Chapter 14: Conspicuous Charity; Index; About the Contributors
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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