Culture, society, and democracy : the interpretive approach / edited by Isaac Reed and Jeffrey C. Alexander ; with Nina Eliasoph ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reed, Isaac (Isaac Ariail)

Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947-

Eliasoph, Nina.

Series:

Yale cultural sociology series

The Yale cultural sociology series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Democracy.

Physical Description:

v, 199 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boulder : Paradigm Publishers, [2007]

Summary:

What is the link between explaining society and criticizing it? This book is about developing a new answer to this question in the context of social theory strongly committed to democracy and the progressive 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 meet, when critical theory must examine its most fundamental presuppositions.

Contents:

Cultural sociology and the democratic imperative / Isaac Reed

Invitation to a practical cultural sociology / Paul Lichterman

Beyond the politics of denunciation : cultural sociology as the "sociology for the meantime" / Nina Eliasoph

From mass to public : rethinking the value of the culture industry / Ronald N. Jacobs

The healing of wounds : forgiveness as a cultural practice / Fuyuki Kurasawa

Place destruction and cultural trauma / J. Nicholas Entrikin

The social structure of denial : a formal sociological analysis of conspiracies of silence / Eviatar Zerubavel.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594513411

1594513414

9781594513428

1594513422

OCLC:

80917424