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