Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Studies on the History of Society and Culture , No 34)

Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Studies on the History of Society and Culture , No 34)

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Book Description
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 directions in the theory and practice of historical research.

The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the cultural turn and its postmodernist critiques of knowledge. Essays by leading historians and historical sociologists reflect on the uses of cultural theories and show both their promise and their limitations. The afterword by Hayden White provides an assessment of the trend toward culturalism by one its most influential proponents.

Beyond the Cultural TurnContributors:
Richard Biernacki
Caroline Bynum
Steven Feierman
Karen Halttunen
Margaret C. Jacob
Sonya O. Rose
Jerrold Seigel
William H. Sewell Jr.
Margaret R. Somers
Hayden White

About the Author
Victoria E. Bonnell is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Center for Slavic and East European Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, author of Iconography of Power: Soviet Political Posters under Lenin and Stalin (California, 1997), and editor of The Russian Worker: Life and Labor under the Tsarist Regime (California, 1983), among other works. Lynn Hunt is Annenberg Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania, and is author of The Family Romance of the French Revolution (California, 1992), and editor of The New Cultural History (California, 1989), among other works.

Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture (Studies on the History of Society and Culture , No 34),Victoria E. Bonnell,Lynn Avery Hunt,Richard Biernacki,University of California Press,0520216792,Congresses,Culture,Historical sociology,Popular Culture - General,Social Science,Social history,Sociology,Sociology - General,Sociology - Social Theory

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