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Theory of culture

Theory of culture [world wide web resource] / edited by Richard Münch and Neil J. Smelser. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992. - Web resouce (xiii, 410 p. : ill.). - New directions in cultural analysis ; 2 .

Based on papers from a conference held July 23-25, 1988 in Bremen, sponsored by the Theory Sections of the American Sociological Association and the German Sociological Association.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Culture : coherent or incoherent / Neil J. Smelser -- The cultic roots of culture / Eugene Halton -- The order-maintaining and order-transforming dimensions of culture / S.N Eisenstadt -- The concept of culture and its place within a theory of social action : a critique of Talcott Parson's theory of culture / Michael Schmid -- Representative culture and cultural representation / Johannes Weiss -- Infrastrucutre and superstructure : revisions in Marxist sociology of culture / Robert Wuthnow -- Collective purpose and culture : findings and implications from some studies of societies / Guy E. Swanson -- Social norms in the institutional culture of the German Federal Parliament / Renate Mayntz -- The production and reproduction of inequality : a theoretical cultural analysis / Richard Münch -- Cultural production, consumption, and the development of the cultural sphere / Mike Featherstone. The promise of a cultural sociology : technological discourse and the sacred and profane information machine / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- Culture and the locus of work in contemporary western Germany : a Weberian configurational analysis / Stephen Kalberg -- Culture and crisis : making sense of the crisis of the work society / Klaus Eder.



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