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How do fashions in drinks work, and how are drinks fashions related
to changing trends in clothes and apparel? These twin questions are
posed and answered by the book Drinks in Vogue. Taking a radically
cross-disciplinary set of perspectives and ranging far and wide
across time and space, the book considers beverages as varied as
cocktails, wine, Champagne, craft beer, coffee, and mineral water.
The contributors present rich case materials which illuminate key
conceptual issues about how fashion dynamics work both within and
across the worlds of beverages and clothes. Covering both
contemporary and historical cases and drawing upon perspectives in
disciplines including sociology, history, and geography, among
others, the book sets out a novel research programme that
intersects fashion studies with food and drinks studies.
This collection offers a uniquely comprehensive guide to the sociology of the body. With a strong historical scope and conceptual framework, it provides an indispensible reference for undergraduate and postgraduate students, and a robust source for scholars working in the area. The central focus is on understanding sociology through the body; what is often described as re-reading sociology in a 'more corporeal light'. This is an interdisciplinary process, drawing on history, feminism, cultural history, art history, anthropology, social psychology, philosophy, medical sociology and media and communications, as well as sociology. While this has been primarily a Western practice, The Body seeks to broaden the perspective to include references that draw on alternative cultural assumptions, beliefs and practices (including Japan, and South America.)
Veils and veiling are controversial topics in social and political
life, generating debates across the world. The veil is enmeshed
within a complex web of relations encompassing politics, religion
and gender, and conflicts over the nature of power, legitimacy,
belief, freedom, agency and emancipation. In recent years, the veil
has become both a potent and unsettling symbol and a rallying-point
for discourse and rhetoric concerning women, Islam and the nature
of politics. Early studies in gender, doctrine and politics of
veiling appeared in the 1970s following the Islamic revival and
're-veiling' trends that were dramatically expressed by 1979's
Iranian Islamic revolution. In the 1990s, research focussed on the
development of both an 'Islamic culture industry' and greater urban
middle class consumption of 'Islamic' garments and dress styles
across the Islamic world. In the last decade academics have studied
Islamic fashion and marketing, the political role of the headscarf,
the veiling of other religious groups such as Jews and Christians,
and secular forms of modest dress. Using work from contributors
across a range of disciplinary backgrounds and locations, this book
brings together these research strands to form the most
comprehensive book ever conceived on this topic. As such, this
handbook will be of interest to scholars and students of fashion,
gender studies, religious studies, politics and sociology.
Veils and veiling are controversial topics in social and political
life, generating debates across the world. The veil is enmeshed
within a complex web of relations encompassing politics, religion
and gender, and conflicts over the nature of power, legitimacy,
belief, freedom, agency and emancipation. In recent years, the veil
has become both a potent and unsettling symbol and a rallying-point
for discourse and rhetoric concerning women, Islam and the nature
of politics. Early studies in gender, doctrine and politics of
veiling appeared in the 1970s following the Islamic revival and
're-veiling' trends that were dramatically expressed by 1979's
Iranian Islamic revolution. In the 1990s, research focussed on the
development of both an 'Islamic culture industry' and greater urban
middle class consumption of 'Islamic' garments and dress styles
across the Islamic world. In the last decade academics have studied
Islamic fashion and marketing, the political role of the headscarf,
the veiling of other religious groups such as Jews and Christians,
and secular forms of modest dress. Using work from contributors
across a range of disciplinary backgrounds and locations, this book
brings together these research strands to form the most
comprehensive book ever conceived on this topic. As such, this
handbook will be of interest to scholars and students of fashion,
gender studies, religious studies, politics and sociology.
Culture is unquestionably a central topic in the contemporary
social sciences. In order to understand how people think, feel,
value, act and express themselves, it is necessary to examine the
cultures they create, and are in turn created by. Here, David
Inglis shows how the study of culture can be transformed by
focusing in on how cultural forces shape, influence, structure -
and occasionally disrupt - the day-to-day activities of
individuals. Reconsidering different views on 'culture' - what it
is, how it operates, and how it relates to other aspects of the
human (and non-human) world - this new book covers key areas such
as: high culture versus popular culture modern and postmodern
culture globalization and culture culture and nature. Specific
issues covered range from the everyday aspects of sportive play,
artistic production and the mass media, to car culture and global
cuisine, and students are introduced to some of the major thinkers
on culture from Matthew Arnold to Bakhtin and Bourdieu. Written in
a concise, student-friendly manner, theoretical arguments are
illustrated with examples from film, architecture and daily life,
making this an informative and indispensable introduction for those
wishing to understand the complexities of culture.
Culture is unquestionably a central topic in the contemporary
social sciences. In order to understand how people think, feel,
value, act and express themselves, it is necessary to examine the
cultures they create, and are in turn created by. Here, David
Inglis shows how the study of culture can be transformed by
focusing in on how cultural forces shape, influence, structure -
and occasionally disrupt - the day-to-day activities of
individuals.
Reconsidering different views on 'culture' - what it is, how it
operates, and how it relates to other aspects of the human (and
non-human) world - this new book covers key areas such as:
- high culture versus popular culture
- modern and postmodern culture
- globalization and culture
- culture and nature.
Specific issues covered range from the everyday aspects of
sportive play, artistic production and the mass media, to car
culture and global cuisine, and students are introduced to some of
the major thinkers on culture from Matthew Arnold to Bakhtin and
Bourdieu.
Written in a concise, student-friendly manner, theoretical
arguments are illustrated with examples from film, architecture and
daily life, making this an informative and indispensable
introduction for those wishing to understand the complexities of
culture.
This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry
for the first time. The authors provide the essential resources for
the study of sport within culture and popular culture. Sport is an
important part of cultural life, yet until recently it has tended
to remain on the margins of academic cultural studies.
Beginning by considering sport in relation to the pre-cultural
studies tradition of cultural commentary, The Uses of Sport then
moves on to a critical engagement with a number of themes relevant
to contemporary cultural studies including: community and social
capital, cultural populism, cultural materialism, visual culture
and film, and postmodernism and citizenship.
As sport continues to gain cultural and academic significance,
this textbook will become the definitive resource for students and
scholars of cultural studies, sociology, and sport and leisure
studies.
Under what social conditions do particular sorts of arts and
aesthetics arise and flourish, and under what conditions do they
decline and disappear? What types of artistic and aesthetic
practices exist outside of museums, galleries, and other
high-cultural institutions? In what ways are social relations and
broader cultural forces embedded within particular artworks, or
specific artistic genres and forms? What roles can and do aesthetic
orientations and artistic processes and products play in social
life? In what ways are arts and aesthetics socially organized,
regulated, distributed, and utilized? How are art worlds connected
to other major social institutions, such as politics and the
economy, and has art become just an offshoot of consumer and
celebrity culture?
Serious work on dizzying questions such as these has a long
pedigree, stretching back at least to the writings of Giambattista
Vico and Madame de Stael in the eighteenth century. Very simply
put, both these authors were concerned with tracing the manifold
relations that can pertain between the arts and, more broadly,
aesthetics on the one hand, and society on the other. Since then,
social scientists in many disciplines have had compelling things to
say about art and aesthetics. In some disciplines such as
anthropology this is a fact of long standing, while in others like
human geography it is of more recent provenance. But the most
striking recent surge of interest in the area has taken place in
sociology, where never before have cultural forces and phenomena
been so centrally on the research agenda.
Addressing the need for an authoritative reference work to make
sense of this rapidly growing and ever more complex corpus of
scholarly literature, Art and Aesthetics is a new title in the
Routledge series, Critical Concepts in the Social Sciences. Edited
by two leading scholars, this new Major Work from Routledge brings
together in four volumes foundational and the very best
cutting-edge scholarship to provide a synoptic view of all the key
issues and current debates.
In particular, this new collection brings together for the first
time the most important research on how social relations are
embodied in artistic and aesthetic products and processes, and how
these in turn can affect social life and societal organization.
Rooted in sociology, but also embracing a broad range of diverse
contributions from other disciplines such as anthropology,
philosophy, art history, cultural studies, media studies, film
studies, gender studies, and postcolonial studies Art and
Aesthetics demonstrates the great vitality of this area of research
and teaching. It highlights both how social scientists are
increasingly developing sophisticated ways of understanding
artistic and aesthetic issues, and also how scholars in the
humanities are drawing upon social-scientific ideas and methods in
order more fully to engage with such matters than hitherto was
possible.
Art and Aesthetics is fully indexed and has a comprehensive
introduction, newly written by the editors, which places the
material in its historical and intellectual context. It is an
essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by
scholars and students interested in the relations between arts,
aesthetics, culture, and society as a vital one-stop research and
pedagogic resource.
This textbook puts sport in the spotlight of cultural inquiry
for the first time. The authors provide the essential resources for
the study of sport within culture and popular culture. Sport is an
important part of cultural life, yet until recently it has tended
to remain on the margins of academic cultural studies.
Beginning by considering sport in relation to the pre-cultural
studies tradition of cultural commentary, The Uses of Sport then
moves on to a critical engagement with a number of themes relevant
to contemporary cultural studies including: community and social
capital, cultural populism, cultural materialism, visual culture
and film, and postmodernism and citizenship.
As sport continues to gain cultural and academic significance,
this textbook will become the definitive resource for students and
scholars of cultural studies, sociology, and sport and leisure
studies.
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