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Culture, Society, and Democracy The Interpretive Approach

208 Pages

by Routledge

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208 Pages

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This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer the Left. Written by leading scholars, it develops new conceptions of social critique, new techniques of interpretive analysis, and new concepts for the sociology of democratic practice. It is a volume for the twenty-first-century, where global and local... Read more

Chapter 1 Cultural Sociology and the Democratic Imperative, Isaac Reed; Chapter 2 Invitation to a Practical Cultural Sociology, Paul Lichterman; Chapter 3 Beyond the Politics of Denunciation, Nina Eliasoph; Chapter 4 From Mass to Public, Ronald N. Jacobs; Chapter 5 The Healing of Wounds, Fuyuki Kurasawa; Chapter 6 Place Destruction and Cultural Trauma, J. Nicholas Entrikin; Chapter 7 The Social Structure of Denial, Eviatar Zerubavel;