Beyond the Cultural Turn (eBook)

New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture

Victoria E. Bonnell, Lynn Hunt (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
361 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-92216-7 (ISBN)

Infos

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 assessment of the trend toward culturalism by one its most influential proponents.

Beyond the Cultural Turn offers fresh theoretical readings of the most persistent issues created by the cultural turn and provocative empirical studies focusing on diverse social practices, the uses of narrative, and the body and self as critical junctures where culture and society intersect.


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 disciplin

CONTRIBUTORS:
Richard Biernacki
Caroline Bynum
Steven Feierman
Karen Halttunen
Margaret C. Jacob
Sonya O. Rose
Jerrold Seigel
William H. Sewell Jr.
Margaret R. Somers
Hayden White

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 28.4.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: Studies on the History of Society and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Comparative • Controversy • Culturalism • cultural practice • Cultural Studies • Hayden White • Historical research • History • invisible history • Knowledge • Knowledge Culture • narrative • Narrative discourse • Narrative theory • narrativity • New Cultural History • Postmodernism • Postmodernity • privatization of citizenship • Representation • research practices • Science Studies • Social construction • Social Practices • Social Sciences • Sociology • studies on the history of society and culture series • study of history • Study of Society
• ISBN-10: 0-520-92216-6 / 0520922166
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-92216-7 / 9780520922167