ISBN:
0203005201
,
9780203005200
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (x, 159 p)
Edition:
1st ed
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
The new sociology
Parallel Title:
Print version Culture and everyday life
Keywords:
Culture
Abstract:
Culture is unquestionably a central topic in the contemporary social sciences. In order to understand how people think, feel, value, act and express themselves, it is necessary to examine the cultures they create, and are in turn created by. Here, David Inglis shows how the study of culture can be transformed by focusing in on how cultural forces shape, influence, structure - and occasionally disrupt - the day-to-day activities of individuals. Reconsidering different views on 'culture' - what it is, how it operates, and how it relates to other aspects of the human (and non-human) world - this
Description / Table of Contents:
Culture, "nature", and everyday lifeModern culture and everyday life -- "High", "popular", and "low" cultures in everyday life -- Globalization, culture, and everyday life.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [144]-153) and index
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