Culture and society : contemporary debates /
edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1990
- vii, 375 p. ; 24 cm.
Collection of thirty-one extracts from previously published material, 1942-1988.
Includes bibliographical references.
The case for culture -- Approaches to culture: functionalist, semiotic, dramaturgical, Weberian, Durkheimian, Marxian, poststructuralist -- The place of religion : is modernity a secular or sacred order? -- The debate over the'end of ideology' : can secular reason create cultural order? -- Modernism or postmodernism : dissolution or reconstruction of moral order?