Beyond the cultural turn : new directions in the study of society and culture /
Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new d...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, Calif. :
University of California Press,
©1999.
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| Series: | Studies on the history of society and culture ;
34. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Victoria E. Bonnell and Lynn Hunt
- pt. 1. Culture as Concept and Practice. 1. The Concept(s) of Culture / William H. Sewell, Jr. 2. Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History / Richard Biernacki
- pt. 2. Knowledge in the Social Sciences. 3. Science Studies after Social Construction: The Turn toward the Comparative and the Global / Margaret C. Jacob. 4. The Privatization of Citizenship: How to Unthink a Knowledge Culture / Margaret R. Somers
- pt. 3. Narrative, Discourse, and Problems of Representation. 5. Cultural History and the Challenge of Narrativity / Karen Halttunen. 6. Colonizers, Scholars, and the Creation of Invisible Histories / Steven Feierman. 7. Cultural Analysis and Moral Discourses: Episodes, Continuities, and Transformations / Sonya O. Rose
- pt. 4. Reconstructing the Categories of Body and Self. 8. Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective / Caroline Bynum. 9. Problematizing the Self / Jerrold Seigel
- Afterword / Hayden White.
