Common Culture

• Author : Paul Willis
• Publisher : Westview Press
• Release : 05 September 1990

• Author : Marshall William Fishwick
• Publisher : Praeger
• Release : 18 September 1982

• Author : DAVID DAVIDSON
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 18 September 2021

• Author : Michael Petracca,Madeleine Sorapure
• Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
• Release : 22 July 2011

This popular culture reader helps students develop critical and analytical skills and write clear prose while immersing themselves in subjects they find interesting: advertising, television, popular music, technology, sports, and movies.

• Author : Chris Barker
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 09 June 2004

Contains over 200 entries on key concepts and theorists of cultural studies.

• Author : Mike Featherstone
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 07 December 1990

Implicit within claims that society itself is in some sense postmodern is an argument about the priority of consumption as a determinant of everyday life. In this view, mass media advertising and market dynamics lead to a constant search for new fashions, new styles, new sensations and experiences. Material goods are consumed as `communicators'; they are valued as signifiers of taste and of lifestyle. This volume examines the viability of this portrait of contemporary society. Mike Featherstone explores the roots

• Author : Anonim
• Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
• Release : 01 January 2000

What is the status of the American family? How is it changing? Are these changes making anything better? What is the future of the family? Does religion offer a positive answer? Not since Habits of the Heart has one book confronted these important issues with such personal and societal impact. This groundbreaking study argues for the creation of a new family ethic that must be central to the agendas of both contemporary society and the church. The Family, Culture, and

• Author : O. W. Wolters,Olivers Wolters Wolters
• Publisher : SEAP Publications
• Release : 18 September 1999

A new edition of this classic study of mandala Southeast Asia. The revised book includes a substantial, retrospective postscript examining contemporary scholarship that has contributed to the understanding of Southeast Asian history since 1982.

• Author : Harold Entwistle
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 08 December 2011

This book examines the concepts of equality, class, culture, work and leisure and explores their interrelationship through the discussion of some current problems, especially the problems posed for schools for the 'culturally deprived.' The debate about differential provision of schooling for different social groups is taken up through examination of the assumption that schools are middle-class institutions, and the claims and counter claims about the possibility of there being a common culture as the basis for a common curriculum

• Author : Frank Hoffmann,Marshall Fishwick,B Lee Cooper
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 19 March 2021

A comprehensive, informal overview of world history and popular culture. Popular Culture: From Cavespace to Cyberspace traces the history of people's cultures from primitive to postmodern times. Educational, informative, and absorbing, this book contains interesting facts on such figures as King Tut, Henry Ford, Bill Gates, and Madonna, linking you to the world, past and present. Popular Culture highlights important historical events such as the American, French, Russian, and Chinese Revolutions while examining world-changing social movements. You will go on

• Author : Tim Edwards
• Publisher : SAGE
• Release : 01 August 2007

"Written by some of the leading thinkers in the field, the book is an excellent resource for longstanding and contemporary issues in cultural theory. Comprehensive and well-written." - David Oswell, Goldsmiths College This timely volume provides a framework for understanding the cultural turn in terms of the classical legacy, contemporary cultural theory and cultural analysis. It reveals the significance of Marxist humanism, Georg Simmel, the Frankfurt School, Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School, Giddens, Bauman, Foucault, Bourdieu and Baudrillard. Readers

• Author : Jay Scherer,David Rowe
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 15 August 2013

This book examines the political debates over the access to live telecasts of sport in the digital broadcasting era. It outlines the broad theoretical debates, political positions and policy calculations over the provision of live, free-to-air telecasts of sport as a right of cultural citizenship. In so doing, the book provides a number of comparative case studies that explore these debates and issues in various global spaces.

• Author : William Kilpatrick
• Publisher : Simon and Schuster
• Release : 01 September 1993

An analysis of why American schools fail to provide a moral education argues that the new decision-making-based educational theory fails to teach values

• Author : Christian Reus-Smit
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 09 August 2018

The rise of non-Western Great Powers, the spread of transnational religiously-justified insurgencies, and the resurgence of ethno-nationalism raise fundamental questions about the effects of cultural diversity on international order. Yet current debate - among academics, popular commentators, and policy-makers alike - rests on flawed understandings of culture and inaccurate assumptions about how historically cultural diversity has shaped the evolution of international orders. In this path-breaking book, Christian Reus-Smit details how the major theories of international relations have consistently misunderstood the

• Author : Ross McKibbin,Fellow and Tutor in Modern History Ross McKibbin,R. Mc Hissun
• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• Release : 18 September 1998

In this book McKibbin investigates the ways in which class culture characterised English society and intruded every aspect of life, during the period 1918-1951. He also shows the increasing effects of Americanisation on this culture.