ISBN:
9780761959885
,
0761959882
,
0761959890
Language:
English
Pages:
LV, 148 S
,
8°
Edition:
New ed.
Series Statement:
Theory, culture & society
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Bauman, Zygmunt, - 1925- Culture as praxis
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bauman, Zygmunt, - 1925- Culture as praxis
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Culture
;
Social structure
;
Sociology Methodology
;
Anthropology
;
Kultur
;
Soziologische Theorie
;
Moderne
;
Soziale Werte
;
Culture Philosophy
;
Kultursoziologie
;
Kultur
;
Philosophie
Abstract:
In this major work, Zygmunt Bauman seeks to classify the meanings of culture. He distinguishes between culture as a concept, culture as a structure and culture as praxis and analyzes the different ways in which culture has been used in each of these settings. For Bauman, culture is a living, changing aspect of human interaction which must be understood and studied as a universal of human life. At the heart of his approach is the proposition that culture is inherently ambivalent. With a major new introduction to this new edition, this classic work emerges as a crucial link in the development of Bauman's thought. By his own admission, it was the first of his books to grope towards a new kind of social theory, in contrast to the false certainties and gross theorems that dominated much of the post-war period. This is Bauman at his best, at his most subtle and his most searching.
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