Bourdieu and Culture is an accessible and balanced introduction to Bourdieu''s work, placing him in an appropriate intellectual and historical context. Robbins argues that Bourdieu is best understood as a cultural analyst.'
Julian Steward and the Great Basin is a critical assessment of Steward's work, the factors that influenced him, and his deep effect on American anthropology. Steward (1902-1972) was one of the foremost American exponents of cultural ecology, the idea that societies evolve in adaptation to their human and natural environments. He was also central ......
Speaking Culturally examines the changing cultural demographics of the United States from a linguistic perspective. The author highlights the discourses associated with gender and with African Americans, Hispanic Americans and Asian Americans.'
Traditionally social science has treated culture as a peripheral issue. However, culture has moved to the core of the debate. It examines the impact of this transformation or "cultural turn" on the major social science disciplines. The authors draw on inter-disciplinary perspectives to pinpoint the weaknesses involved in overstating the cultural ......
A primary resource of key statements on photographic meaning, representation and visual culture. The editors combine classic and contemporary essays from a range of scholars including Barthes, Sontag, Baudrillard and Mulvey. The reader is divided into three parts, which present the culture of the image and the making of meaning; the history and ......
Reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, this book shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. It offers a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and bibliography.
Reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, this book shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. It offers a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and bibliography.
`I waited with great anticipation to receive Jon Prosser's book, School Culture. The wait was worth it and I wasn't to be disappointed... This is a fine book bringing to a reader a credible and solid set of work' - Youth and Policy `The most helpful book on genuine school improvement that I have ever read' - LDR National College for School Leadership `Jon Prosser has put together an eclectic volume. School Culture is not isolated from out of school forces, most of the authors argue Jon Prosser and Terry Warbuton's piece analyzing the visual representation of schools and teaching shows this in a looking-glass manner. The different chapters challenge us to think again about what we mean by ethos and atmosphere. What the volume demonstrates is just how difficult and challenging it is to define what constitutes a school's culture' - Journal of Education for Teaching School culture is today one of the most important themes in education and educational research. This book draws on a wide range of contemporary perspectives to provide an insight into the key issues and concepts which underpin school culture. The first part of the book is concerned with culture as an holistic concept. The second part adopts the stance that school culture is the sum of its subcultures.The contributors focus on significant groups such as teachers and students, or theme, for example sexuality, and examine in depth the nature and character of schooling.
Challenging practitioners, Fukuyama and Sevig propose that integrating spiritual values in multicultural counselling and exploring spirituality from multicultural perspectives are mutually beneficial processes.'
