Kendall, Gavin; Wickham, Gary

Understanding culture: cultural studies, order, ordering - New Delhi Sage Pub. 2001 - 179 p. 23 cm ; Pbk

Chapter 1 -- Surveying the Field of Cultural Studies;
Chapter 2 --The Notion of Ordering as an Organising Principle for Cultural Studies;
Chapter 3 --Building a Method for Cultural Studies as the Study of Ordering;
Chapter 4 --Ordering Through the Cluture of Government --
a Colonial Example;
Chapter 5 --Ordering Through the Culture of Law and Regulation;
Chapter 6 --Ordering Through the Culture of Everyday Life;
Chapter 7 --Ordering Through Routinisation --
Technique, Technology and Self.

Understanding Culture offers an accessible and comprehensive overview of the field of cultural studies whilst also proposing a different way of d̀oing' 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

978-0761965157


Sociology
Culture--Philosophy
Culture--Study and teaching

306 KEN