Understanding Culture: Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering by Kendall, Gavin

Understanding Culture: Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780761965145)

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Format: Hardcover
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Understanding Culture: Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering by Kendall, Gavin

Understanding Culture: Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering

$195.00
Understanding Culture: Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering by Kendall, Gavin

Understanding Culture: Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering

$195.00
Format: Hardcover
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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,Gary M. Wickham
ISBN-10: 0761965149
ISBN-13: 9780761965145
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 03/29/2001
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.65d
By Gavin Kendall
By Gavin Kendall
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Gavin Kendall is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Gary Wickham is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Murdoch University, Australia.

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