Table of Contents:
- Culture in classical social theory
- Culture and social integration in the work of Talcott Parsons
- Culture as ideology in western marxism
- Culture as action in symbolic interactionism, phenomenology, and ethnomethodology
- The Durkheimians : ritual, classification, and the sacred
- Structuralism and the semiotic analysis of culture
- The poststructural turn
- Culture, structure, and agency : three attempts at synthesis
- British cultural studies
- The production and reception of culture
- Culture as text : narrative and hermeneutics
- Psychoanalytic approaches to culture and the self
- The cultural analysis of postmodernism and postmodernity
- Postmodern and poststructural critical theory
- Cultural theories of race and gender
- The body in cultural theory