{"product_id":"understanding-culture-gavin-kendall-9780761965145","title":"Understanding Culture: Cultural Studies, Order, Ordering","description":"\u003cb\u003eUnderstanding Culture\u003c\/b\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Gavin Kendall,Gary M. Wickham\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0761965149\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780761965145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sage Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/29\/2001\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.92lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.65d","brand":"Gavin Kendall","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065105527039,"sku":"9780761965145","price":195.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_dadeff8b-7bdb-4be7-8380-2e383f9a6939.jpg?v=1768673021","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/understanding-culture-gavin-kendall-9780761965145","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}