Society and Culture: Scarcity and Solidarity

by Bryan S. Turner and Chris Rojek

Book Overview

Society and Culture reclaims the classical heritage, provides a clear-eyed assessment of the promise of sociology in the 21st century and asks whether the cultural turn′ has made the study of society redundant.

Sociologists have objected to the rise of cultural studies on the grounds that it produces cultural relativism and lacks a stable research agenda. This book looks at these criticisms and illustrates the relevance of...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761970495
• ISBN13: 9780761970491
• Release Date: June 2001
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.2" x 9.3"