Culture

Books:

Abercrombie. Enterprise Culture (1991);

Adorno. The Culture Industry: Selected Essays on Mass Culture (2006);

Alexander. Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates (1990);

Ang. Alter/Asians: Asian-Australian Identities in Art, Media and Popular Culture (2000);

Archer. Culture and Agency: The Place of Culture in Social Theory (1988);

Bachofen. Myth, Religion, and Mother Right (1992, in German 1961);  

Bakhtin. Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics (1984, in Russian 1963);

     -     Rabelais and His World (1968, in Russian 1965);

Balandier. Ambiguous Africa: Cultures in Collision (1966, in French 1957);

Barrett. Ideology and Cultural Production (1980);

Barthes. Mythologies (1972, in French 1957); 

Baudrillard. The System of Objects (2020, in French 1968);

     -     The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (2016, in French 1970);

     -     For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (2019, in French 1972);

     -     Symbolic Exchange and Death (2016, in French 1976);

     -     Simulacra and Simulation (1983, in French 1981);

Bauman. Culture as Praxis (1973);

    -     Liquid Modernity (2000);

Beauvoir. The Second Sex (2021, in French 1949);

Bell. End of Ideology (1960);

     -    The Reforming of General Education (1966);

     -     The Coming of Post-Industrial Society (1973);

     -    The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1976);

Bernstein. Class, Codes and Control, 4 Vols. (1971-1990);

Bourdieu. Reproduction in Education, Society and Culture (1977, in French 1970);

     -    Outline of a Theory of Practice (1977, in French 1972);

     -     Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (1984, in French 1979);

Cassirer. Language and Myth (1946, in German 1925);

     -     The Logic of the Cultural Sciences: Five Studies (2000, in German 1942);

     -     The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, 3 vol. (2020, in German 1923-1929); 

Certeau. Culture in the Plural (1998, in French 1974a);

     -     Practice of Everyday Life (2011, in French 1980);

Collins P. Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment (1990);

Debord. Society Of The Spectacle (2021, in French 1967).

Denzin. Indians on Display: Global Commodification of Native America in Performance, Art and Museums (2013).

Derrida. Of Grammatology (1998, in French 1967a);

Dewey. Art as Experience (1934);

Dilthey. Selected Works, 6 vols. (1989-2021);

Fanon. Black Skin, White Masks (2008, in French 1952); 

     -    The Wretched of the Earth (1963, in French 1961);

Fine. With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture (1987);

     -     Manufacturing Tales: Sex and Money in Contemporary Legends (1992);

     -     Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work (1996);

     -     Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming  (1998);

     -     Symbols, Selves and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Sociology and Social Psychology (2013); 

Foucault. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1988, in French 1961);

     -     The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (1973, in French 1963);

     -     The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1970, in French 1966);

     -     Archaeology of Knowledge (1982, in French 1969);

Frazier. Race and Culture Contacts in the Modern World (1957);

Freyer. Theory of Objective Mind: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Culture (1991, in German 1923).  

Fromm. The Forgotten Language: An Introduction to the Understanding of Dreams, Fairy Tales, and Myths (1951); 

      -     The Sane Society (1955);

Gans. Popular Culture and High Culture (1974);

Gellner. Plough, Sword and the Book: The Strucuture of Human History (1988);

Gilman. His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers (1923).

Gilroy. There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack: The Cultural Politics of Nation and Race (1987);

Gramsci. Prison Notebooks (Volumes 1, 2 & 3) (2011);

Habermas. The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989, in German 1962);

Hall. The Popular Arts (1964);

     -     Encoding and Decoding in the Television Discourse (1973);

     -     Resistance through Rituals: Youth Subcultures in Post-war Britain (1976);

     -     On Ideology (1978);

     -     Culture, Media, Language: Working Papers in Cultural Studies (1972–1979) (1980);

Hannerz. Cosmopolitans and Locals in World Culture (1990);

      -     Cultural Complexity (1992);

      -     Transnational Connections: Culture, People, Places (1996);

Haraway. A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century (1985):

Harvey. The Condition of Postmodernity (1989);

Hobsbowm. The Invention of Tradition (1983);

Hoggart. Higher Education and Cultural Change (1966);

     -     Contemporary Cultural Studies (1969);

Horkheimer. Traditional and Critical Theory (1937);

     -     Dialectics of the Enlightenment (1972, in German 1947b),

Huntington. The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order (1996);

     -     Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress (2000);

Inglehart. Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society (1990);

     -     Modernization and Postmodernization (1997);

     -     Rising Tide: Gender Equality and Cultural Change around the World (2003);

     -     Human Beliefs and Values: A Cross-Cultural Sourcebook based on the 1999-2002 values Surveys (2004);

     -     Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence (2005);

     -     Cosmopolitan Communications: Cultural Diversity in a Globalized World (2009);

     -     Cultural Evolution: People's Motivations are Changing, and Reshaping the World (2018);

Irigaray. Je, Tu, Nous: Towards a Culture of Difference (2007, in French 1990);

Jameson. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991);

Kellner. Media Culture (1995);

     -     The Postmodern Turn (1997);

     -     The Postmodern Adventure: Science, Technology, and Cultural Studies at the Third Millennium (2001);

Knorr-Cetina. Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge (1999);

Lefebvre. Critique of Everyday Life: The Three-Volume Text (2014, in French 1947, 1961, 1968, 1981);

Lenski. Ecological-Evolutionary Theory (2006).

Luckmann. Structures of the Life-World, 2 Vols. (1973-1989);

Marcuse. Eros and Civilization: A Philosophical Inquiry into Freud (1955);

     -     One-Dimensional Man (1964);

     -     A Critique of Pure Tolerance 1965);

     -     Kultur und Gesellschaft (1965);

Martineau. Society in America, 3 vols. (1837);

     -     How to Observe Morals and Manners (1838);

     -     Eastern Life: Present and Past; 3 vol. (1848);

Merton. Science, Technology and Society in Seventeenth-century England (1936);

Mumford. Technics and Civilization (1934);

     -     The Culture of Cities (1938);

Ogburn. Social Change with Respect to Culture and Original Nature (1922);

Redfield. The Folk Culture of Yucatan (1941); 

Robertson. Globalization: Social Theory and Global Culture (1992);

     -     Global Culture: Consciousness and Connectivity (2017);

Runciman. The Theory of Cultural and Social Selection (2009).

Said. Orientalism (1978);

     -     Literature and Society (1980);

     -     Musical Elaborations (1991);

     -     Culture and Imperialism (1993);

     -     Nationalism, Colonialism, and Literature (1998);

Sanderson. Social Transformations: A General Theory of Historical Development (1995);

Sklair. The Anthropocene in Global Media: Neutralizing the Risk (2020).

Smelser. Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (2004);

     -     Dynamics of the Contemporary University: Growth, Accretion, and Conflict (2013).

Sorokin. Social and Cultural Dynamics, 4 vols. (1937-1941);

Spencer. Descriptive Sociology, 8 vols. (1873-1934);

Spengler. The Decline of the West (2021, in German 1918, 1922);

Spivak. In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics (1987);

     -     Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture (1988);

Sumner. Folkways: A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals (1906);

Thomas W. The Polish Peasant in Europe and America, 5 vol. (1918-1919);

     -     Old World Traits Transplanted (1921);

Tönnies. Community and Society (2021, in German 1887);

Touraine. The Post-Industrial Society (1971, in French 1969); 

Toynbee. A Study of History, 12 vols. (1934-1961);

Turner B. Society and Culture (2001);

Turner J. Human Institutions: A Theory of Societal Evolution (2003); 

Virilio. Negative Horizon: An Essay in Dromoscopy (2005);

Walby. Theorizing Patriarchy (1990);

Weber A. Ideen zur Staats und Kultursoziologie (1927);

     -     Kulturgeschichte als Kultursoziologie (1935);

Williams. Culture and Society 1780-1950 (1958);

Willis. Profane Culture (1978);

     -     Culture, Media, Language (1980);

     -     Moving Culture (1990);

     -     Common Culture  (1990);

Worsley. The Three Worlds: Culture and World Development (1984);

     -     Knowledges: Culture, Counterculture, Subculture (1997); 

Wuthnow., Zerubavel, Znaniecki. Cultural Reality (1919);

     -     Cultural Sciences: Their Origin and Development (1952);

Žižek. The Sublime Object of Ideology (1989).

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