Understanding sport An introduction to the sociological and cultural analysis of sport by HornelhJohn

Representations of Islam in the news a cross-cultural analysis

Cultural theory an introduction by Smith, Philip (Philip Daniel) 1964-, Riley, Alexander

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…”

Introducing cultural and media studies a semiotic approach by Davis, Lloyd 1959-2005, Mules, Warwick