Overview
Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of doing′ cultural studies. It focuses on the ways in which cultural objects and practices serve as both a means of ordering people′s lives and as markers of that ordering. The book reviews the state of the discipline of cultural studies and suggests a new theoretical and methodological orientation drawing on the work of: Foucault; scepticism, Wittgenstein; Harvey Sacks and John Law; uses insights from a variety of sources to examine the complex ways in which meanings are manufactured as lives are ordered in particular social settings: personal life, education, health, the city and law; and pre
- | Author: Gavin Kendall
- | Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
- | Publication Date: Mar 29, 2001
- | Number of Pages: 192 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 0761965149
- | ISBN-13: 9780761965145
