Sketches in the theory of culture / Zygmunt Bauman; edited by Dariuz Brzeziński, translated by Katarzyna Bartoszyńska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017, author.

Contributor:

Brzeziński, Dariusz, editor.

Bartoszynska, Katarzyna, translator.

Standardized Title:

Szkice z teorii kultury. English

Language:

English

Polish

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Semiotics.

Social structure.

Physical Description:

xxv, 289 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

English edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA : Polity Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English; translated from the original Polish.

Contents:

Sign and culture

The origins of the semiotic theory of culture, or the crisis of cultural anthropology

Towards a semiotic theory of culture

Man and sign

The problem of universals and the semiotic theory of culture

Some research problems in the semiotic theory of culture

Culture and social structure

Cultural and extra-cultural organization of society

Economics, culture, and typologies of societies

Cultural determinants of the research process

Three observations about problems of contemporary education

Masses, classes, elites: semiotics and the re-imagination of the sociological function of culture.

Notes:

"First published in Polish as Szkice z teorii kultury by Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, Warsaw, 2016"--Title verso page.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-268) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Bauman, Zygmunt, 1925-2017. Sketches in the theory of culture.

ISBN:

9781509528295

1509528296

9781509528301

150952830X

OCLC:

1043967436

Publisher Number:

40028734642