Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams' classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere.
Assembles a stellar team of internationally renowned and interdisciplinary social thinkers and theorists
Showcases 142 signed entries - from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, thevirtual, and the West - that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society
Builds on and updates Raymond Williams's classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society over the last 25 years
Includes a bibliographic resource to guide research and cross-referencing
The book is supported by a website: www.blackwellpublishing.com/newkeywords.
Excellents Resource for Students of Cultural and Media Studies
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The editors, Tony Bennett, Lawrence Grossberg and Meaghan Morris are well known academics and scholars in cultural studies. The New Keywords is a comprehensive resource for everyone furthering their studies in cultural and literary theory. In addition, students involved in anthropology, sociology and philosophy may find it very useful.
Another model for Taxonomy and Classification of Information
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View the Contents of this book to see how it fits as a re-newed model: Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction Aesthetics, Alternative, Art, Audience Behaviour, Biology, Body, Bureaucracy, Canon, Capitalism, Celebrity, Citizenship, City, Civilization, Class, Colonialism, Commodity, Communication, Community, Conservatism, Consumption, Copy, Country, Culture Deconstruction, Democracy, Desire, Development, Diaspora, Difference, Disability, Discipline, Discourse, Economy, Education, Elite, Emotion, Empirical, Environment / ecology, Equality, Ethnicity, Everyday, Evolution, Experience Family, Fashion, Feminism, Fetish, Freedom, Fundamentalism, Gay and Lesbian, Gender, Generation, Gene/genetic, Globalization, Government Heritage, History, Holocaust, Home, Human, Human Rights Ideology, Identity, Image, Indigenous, Individual, Industry, Information, Intellectual Justice, Knowledge, Liberalism Management, Marginal, Market, Mass, Materialism, Media, Memory Mobility, Modern, Movements, Multiculturalism Narrative, Nation, Nature, Network, Normal Objectivity, Orientalism, Other Participation, Person, Place, Policy, Political correctness Popular, Pornography, Postcolonialism, Postmodernism, Poverty Power, Pragmatism, Private, Public, Queer, Race, Radical, Reason, Reform/revolution, Relativism Representation, Resistance, Risk, Science, Self, Sexuality, Sign, Socialism, Society, Sovereignty, Space, Spectacle, State, Taste, Technology, Text, Theory, Therapy, Time, Tolerance, Tourism, Unconscious, Utopia, Value, Virtual, Welfare, West, the Work, Writing, Youth, About the Book: Over 25 years ago, Raymond Williams' Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society set the standard for how we understand and use the language of culture and society. Now, three luminaries in the field of cultural studies have assembled a volume that builds on and updates Williams' classic, reflecting the transformation in culture and society since its publication. New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society is a state-of-the-art reference for students, teachers and culture vultures everywhere.
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