David Oswell has written a comprehensive 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;
- analyzes the central problems: identity, body, economy,
globalization and empire;
- introduces the latest developments on materiality, agency,
technology and nature.
Culture and Society is an invaluable guide for students
navigating the dynamic debates and intellectual challenges of
cultural studies. Its breadth and unparallelled coverage of
cutting-edge theory will also ensure that it is read by anyone
interested in questions of materiality and culture.
Too often cultural studies discourse seems cut off from wider
developments in social theory. As 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"
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