Cultural Analysis

Robert Wuthnow, James Davison Hunter, Albert Bergesen & Edith Kurzweil

Cultural Analysis is a systematic examination of the theories of culture contained in the writings of four contemporary social theorists – Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault and Jürgen Habermas. Each of these writers represents a distinct tradition which has become increasingly prominent in the study of culture: Berger’s work represents an extension of the phenomenological perspective; Douglas draws on the Durkheimian tradition of cultural anthropology to investigate the structures of meaning and moral order; Foucault has adapted a variety of structural analysis which focuses on the ordering of discourse; and Habermas currently stands as the leading representative of critical theory.

This study of their work clarifies their contributions to the analysis of culture and shows the converging assumptions that the authors believe are laying the foundation for a new approach to the study of culture. The focus is specifically on culture, a concept that remains subject to ambiguities of treatment, and concentrates on questions concerning the definition and content of culture, its construction, its relations with social conditions, and the manner in which it may be changing. In particular, the book shows that Berger, Douglas, Foucault and Habermas have made strides towards defining culture as an objective element of social interaction which can be subjected to critical investigation.

ISBN 0710099940
uit 1984
272 pagina’s 
Afmetingen: 14 x 21.5 x 2.1 cm
Uitgever: Routledge

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