Beyond the Cultural Turn New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture

Name: Beyond the Cultural Turn New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture
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ISBN: 9780520216792

ISBN-10: 0520216792

ISBN-13: 9780520216792

Edition: 1999

Authors: Victoria E. Bonnell, Lynn Hunt, Hayden White

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Nothing has generated more controversy in the social sciences than the turn toward culture, variously known as the linguistic turn, culturalism, or postmodernism. This book examines the impact of the cultural turn on two prominent social science disciplines, history and sociology, and proposes new directions in the theory and practice of historical research. The editors provide an introduction analyzing the origins and implications of the cultural turn and its postmodernist critiques of knowledge. Essays by leading historians and historical sociologists reflect on the uses of cultural theories and show both their promise and their limitations. The afterword by Hayden White provides an…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 7/5/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 361
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.518
Language: English



Preface


Introduction




Culture as Concept and Practice



The Concept(s) of Culture




Method and Metaphor after the New Cultural History




Knowledge in the Social Sciences



Science Studies after Social Construction: The Turn toward the Comparative and the Global




The Privatization of Citizenship: How to Unthink a Knowledge Culture




Narrative, Discourse, and Problems of Representation



Cultural History and the Challenge of Narrativity




Colonizers, Scholars, and the Creation of Invisible Histories




Cultural Analysis and Moral Discourses: Episodes, Continuities, and Transformations




Reconstructing the Categories of Body and Self



Why All the Fuss about the Body? A Medievalist's Perspective




Problematizing the Self



Afterword



Notes on Contributors


Index