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This volume brings together major statements by the leading contemporary scholars of cultural analysis. Part I surveys the range of current analytical debate over culture. Part II turns to substantive debates, including those over the role of religion, secular ideology, and mass culture, and brings to light disputes about the meaning of modernity.

This book is designed to bring the analysis of symbolic phenomena more directly into the discourse of sociology. The human studies are in the midst of an explosion of cultural interest. In diverse disciplinary orientations throughout Europe and in literary studies in the United States, semiotics and structuralism-and the poststructuralist movements which have followed in their wake-have fundamentally affected contemporary understandings of soc...

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Social Postmodernism defends a postmodern perspective anchored in the politics of the new social movements. The volume preserves the focus on the politics of the body, race, gender, and sexuality as elaborated in postmodern approaches.

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Het is winter. Twee jonge vosjes, die nog nooit sneeuw hebben gezien, mogen van mama buiten spelen. Als ze maar niet te ver weg gaan. Maar dat doen ze toch, en dan verdwalen ze. Hoe moeten ze nu de weg terug vinden?

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Long recognised as a foundational figure in the development of social scientific thought, Emile Durkheims work has been the subject of intense debate over the years. This authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays re-examines the impact of Durkheim's thought, considering the historical contexts of his work as well as evaluating his ideas in relation to current issues and controversies. Leading authorities in the field have contribute...

He ate gunpowder every morning, " complained one umpire, "and washed it down with warm blood." That described John McGraw, who in the 1890s was the rowdiest member of the ferocious Baltimore Orioles, the club that pioneered the hit-and-run, the cutoff, the squeeze play, and the "Baltimore chop." In 1902 he began his thirty-season reign as manager of the Giants, winning ten pennants--a record matched only by Casey Stengel. His career in basebal...