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Analyses different senses of the term 'culture' as these have developed over time and across disciplines
Collates a wide range of scholarship in one place, but remains concise, well-written, accessible and comprehensive
Explains complex ideas with clarity, drawing on examples such as cultural deprivation, multiculturalism and digital culture
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Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
While the term ‘culture’ has come to be very widely used in both popular and academic discourse, it has a variety of meanings, and the differences among these have not been given sufficient attention. This book explores these meanings, and identifies some of the problems associated with them, as well as examining the role that values should play in cultural analysis.
The development of four, very different, conceptions of culture is traced from the nineteenth century onwards: a notion of aesthetic cultivation associated with Matthew Arnold; the evolutionary view of culture characteristic of nineteenth-century anthropology; the idea of diverse cultures characteristic of twentieth and twenty-first century anthropology; and a conception of culture as a process of situated meaning-making – found today across anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. These conceptions of culture are interrogated, and a reformulation of the concept is sketched.
This book will be of interest to students and scholars across a variety of fields, including anthropology, sociology, cultural studies, and education.
Authors and Affiliations
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Open University, Milton Keynes, UK
Martyn Hammersley
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Concept of Culture
Book Subtitle: A History and Reappraisal
Authors: Martyn Hammersley
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22982-5
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22981-8Published: 16 August 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22984-9Published: 16 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22982-5Published: 30 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 120
Topics: Sociology of Culture, Cultural Theory, Social Theory, Cultural Anthropology