Culture and society : contemporary debates

Part I - Analytic debates: Understanding the relative autonomy of culture / Jeffrey C.Alexander -- The case for culture - The human studies / Wilhelm Dilthey -- Values and social systems / Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils -- Culture and ideological hegemony / Antonio Gramsci -- Signs and language / Ferdinand Saussure -- Approaches to culture : funcionalist -- The normative structure of science / Robert K. Merton -- Values and democracy Seymour Martin Lipset -- Approaches to culture : semiotic -- The world of wrestling / Roland Barthes -- Food as symbolic code / Marshall Sahlins -- Approaches to culture : dramaturgical -- Out-of-frame activity / Erving Goffman -- The Balinese cockfight as play / Clifford Geertz -- Approaches to culture : weberian -- Puritanism and revolutionary ideology / Michael Walzer -- French Catholicism and secular grace / Jesse R. Pitts -- Approaches to culture : durkheimian -- Liminality and community / Victor Turner -- Symbolic pollution / Mary Douglas -- Sex as symbol in Victorian purity / Carroll Smith-Rosenberg -- Approaches to culture : Marxian -- Rituals of mutuality / E.P. Thompson -- Masculinity and factory labor / Paul Willis -- Approaches to culture : poststructuralists -- Sexual discourse and power / Michel Foucault -- Artistic taste and cultural capital / Pierre Bourdieu -- Part II - Substantive debates: Moral order and social crisis-perspectives on modern culture / Steven Seidman -- The place of religion : is modernity a secular or sacred order? -- Social sources of secularization / Peter Berger -- The future of religion / Wolfgang Schluchter -- Civil religion in America / Robert Bellah -- The debate over the “end of ideology” : can secular reason create cultural order? -- Culture industry reconsidered / Theodor W. Adorno -- From consensual order to instrumental control / Herbert Marcuse -- The end of ideology in the West / Daniel Bell -- Beyond coercion and crisis: The coming of an era of voluntary community / Talcott Parsons -- Ideology, the cultural apparatus, and the new consciousness industry / Alvin Gouldner -- Modernism or postmodernism : dissolution or reconstruction of moral order? -- Modernism, postmodernism, and the decline of moral order / Daniel Bell -- The postmodern condition / Jean-Francois Lyotard -- Modernity versus postmodernity / Jurgen Habermas -- Mapping the postmodern Andreas Huyssen