Culture and society : Contemporary debates /
Ed. by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman.
- Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990.
- vii, 375 p. ; 24 cm.
- 306 .
Collection of thirty-one extracts from previously published material, 1942-1988.
Includes bibliogr. references.
The case for culture - Approaches to culture: functionalist, semiotic, dramaturgical, Weberian, Durkheimian, Marxian, poststructuralist - The place of religion : is modernity a secular or sacred order? - The debate over the "end of ideology" : can secular reason create cultural order? - Modernism or postmodernism : dissolution or reconstruction of moral order?