Co-opting culture : culture and power in sociology and cultural studies / edited by B. Garrick Harden and Robert Carley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harden, B. Garrick, 1981-

Carley, Robert F., 1973-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Race relations.

Power (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

xxi, 315 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, MD : Lexington Books, [2009]

Contents:

Defrocking the "high priest of modernity" : Anthony Giddens and the misappropriation of trust in radical modernity / Keith Kerr and Xi Chen

Power, culture, and hegemony : a theoretical exploration of Gesellschaft / B. Garrick Harden

The unicorn is dead : postmodernism, consumption, and the production of the "self" / Ryan Ashley Caldwell

Some brief notes toward a labor-based theory of culture / Robert Carley

Gender queer productions and the bridge of cultural legitimacy : "realness" and "identity" in Paris is burning / Ryan Ashley Caldwell

Ambiguity will not stand : an exploratory study of transsexuality, and the intimate relationship between sex, race, technology, nature, and the "nature" of desire / Robert Carley

Inter(sex)tions : gender, culture, and globalization / Wendy A. Burns-Ardolino

Popular classes and neoliberalism : the practices of television mediators in Argentina / Pablo Castagno

Modernity, development, hegemony : social change and ethnic assimilation in the lower Rio Grande Valley / Jesse A. Garcia

"Like the wildest creation of a dream" : dialectics, visualization technologies ... / Christopher M. Sutch

Racial determinism and the interlocking economies of power and violence in Dungeons and dragons / Ilan Mitchell-Smith

Heebsters : community and identity (re) construction of urban Jewish hipsters / Marcus Aldredge

In blog we trust : an antiphon / B. Garrick Harden

Conspicuous charity / Lindsay Anderson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-307) and index.

ISBN:

9780739125977

0739125974

9780739137048

0739137042

OCLC:

303087212