Culture and Society by David Oswell

Culture and Society by David Oswell

Presents an introduction to cultural studies that guides the reader through the field's central foundations and its freshest ideas. This book grounds the reader in the foundations of cultural studies and cultural theory: language and semiology, ideology and power, mass and popular culture.

Too often cultural studies discourse seems cut off from wider developments in social theoryAs a sociologist with a strong cultural studies sensibility, David Oswell is ideally placed to put this right. Through a series of well-judged and historically nuanced readings of cultural, social theory and critical philosophy, this book provides just the bridge between cultural studies and wider debates that we need
Nick Couldry
Redaer in Media, Communications and Culture, London School of Economics and Political Science

This book is an addition to the burgeoning field of Cultural Studies and is a useful companion volume to what Oswell elegantly describes as ‘a book in a sea of other books and writings about culture’. Nevertheless, it is a useful guide where Oswell manages to decant sophisticated concepts and revisit the tropes in an imag-inative and engaging way, which should appeal to a wide readership
Sociology

David Oswell is Director of Research in the internationally renowned Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the author of Pleasure Principles: Explorations in Politics, Sexuality and Ethics (Lawrence & Wishart, 1993), Television, Childhood and the Home: A History of the Making of the Child Television Audience in Britain (Oxford University Press, 2002), Culture and Society: An Introduction to Cultural Studies (SAGE, 2006), The Sociology of Childhood (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and various articles in academic journals and edited collections. His current research is focused on culture, governmentality, and the built, natural and immaterial environment.

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ISBN 13	9780761942696
ISBN 10	0761942696
Title	Culture and Society
Author	David Oswell
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	SAGE Publications Inc
Year published	2006-12-07
Number of pages	256
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