ABSTRACT

An up-to-date and comprehensive survey of over 350 of the key terms encountered in cultural theory today. Each entry provides clear and succinct explanations for students throughout a wide range of disciplines.

chapter |14 pages

INTRODUCTION

chapter |3 pages

archetype

chapter |3 pages

artworld

chapter |12 pages

avant-garde

chapter |2 pages

bureaucracy

chapter |17 pages

canon

chapter |1 pages

conflict theory

chapter |8 pages

consciousness

chapter |3 pages

counterculture

chapter |12 pages

cultural anthropology

chapter |12 pages

dialectics

chapter |10 pages

essentialism

chapter |1 pages

feudalism

chapter |12 pages

folk music

chapter |2 pages

hermeneutics

chapter |7 pages

holism

chapter |1 pages

humanism

chapter |1 pages

hypothetico-deductive method

chapter |3 pages

ideal type

chapter |1 pages

ideological state apparatus

chapter |4 pages

ideology

chapter |1 pages

internalism and externalism

chapter |1 pages

International Style

chapter |4 pages

intertextuality

chapter |1 pages

labelling

chapter |1 pages

labour

chapter |7 pages

language

chapter |8 pages

lifestyle

chapter |5 pages

meaning

chapter |11 pages

metaphysics

chapter |13 pages

nation-state

chapter |12 pages

phenomenology

chapter |12 pages

positivism

chapter |3 pages

praxis

chapter |4 pages

propaganda

chapter |9 pages

punk

chapter |18 pages

relations of production

chapter |4 pages

Social Darwinism

chapter |10 pages

social stratification

chapter |3 pages

stigma

chapter |4 pages

style

chapter |2 pages

superstructure

chapter |2 pages

symbol

chapter |23 pages

symptom

chapter |4 pages

value