What is the role of intellectuals in the modern world? How does intellectual work connect to modern cultural development as a whole? Bauman answers these questions through a discussion of the nature of modernism and post-modernism in the analysis of culture.
What is a consumer society? Does being a consumer make us less authentic or more materialistic? How and why do we shop? How should we understand the economy? Is our seemingly insatiable desire for goods destroying the planet? Can we reconcile curbs on consumption with goals such…
This volume aims to understand why some economies succeed and some fail, and why some communities prosper while others stagnate, so economics must be seen as embedded in politics and society. It is a study of this embeddedness.
Diplomatic ritual in the "land of the Tejas"--Political kinship through settlement and marriage -- Civil alliance and "civility" in mission-presidio complexes -- Negotiating fear with violence : Apaches and Spaniards at midcentury -- Contests and alliances of norteño manhood : t…
Inglehart uses a massive body of time-series survey data from twenty-six nations, gathered from 1970 through 1988, to analyze the cultural changes that are occurring as younger generations gradually replace older ones in the adult population. These changes have far-reaching poli…
Inglehart uses a massive body of time-series survey data from twenty-six nations, gathered from 1970 through 1988, to analyze the cultural changes that are occurring as younger generations gradually replace older ones in the adult population. These changes have far-reaching poli…
Waste is a key category for understanding cultural value. It is not just the "bad stuff" we dispose of; it is material we constantly struggle to redeem. Cultures seem to spend as much energy reclassifying negativity as they do on establishing the negative itself. The huge tertia…
Speurtocht naar de oorsprong en de aard van de antipathie tegen de moderne westerse samenleving en ideeën.
Focusing on the period between the 1970s and the present, "Life as Surplus" is a pointed and important study of the relationship between politics, economics, science, and cultural values in the United States today. Melinda Cooper demonstrates that the history of biotechnology c…
"All Honourable Men examines the cultural values of honour and patriarchy in Lebanon, with a particular concern to show how they influenced confessional identity and conflict in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.
