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What light can sociology shed on art and culture in contemporary
society? What is distinctive about the sociological understanding
of art? In what ways is the sociology of art today developing new
insights into the nature of artistic life? This volume contains
essays by a wide range of authors, each of whom is concerned with
showing the multiple ways in which artistic processes are
profoundly shaped by their social settings. Encompassing a wide
range of artistic fields, including painting, film, ballet and
architecture, the book demonstrates how sociological appreciations
of art and artists provide rich and stimulating alternative
perspectives to conventional art criticism.
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.
Globalization has become perhaps the most central--and one of the
most contested--terms in the social sciences in the present day. If
one wishes to understand the conditions in which different groups
of people live today, it seems increasingly impossible to ignore
the aspects of those conditions that are seen to be characterized,
or influenced, by "global" forces, movements and phenomena.
Regarding particular phenomena, no matter how apparently "local" or
parochial in nature, as being located within "global" flows or
systems or structures, seems today to be a very necessary component
of any effective sort of social investigation. Many social
scientific scholars in the last decade or so have engaged in a
"global turn" in their thinking, investigating key areas and facets
of human life--such as work, economy, cities, politics, and
media--in terms of how these are being affected, influenced and
changed by (what can be taken to be) "globalizing forces." Themes
of inter-societal, trans-societal and cross-planetary connections,
structures, processes and movements are increasingly central across
the social sciences, including sociology, anthropology, geography,
political science, economics, international relations, and many
humanities disciplines too. Moreover, such themes--and the
controversies and polemics often attached to them--have become
common currency in many spheres outside the academy, with
politicians, businesspeople, political activists and citizens of
all varieties taking up ideas associated with "globalization," and
deploying them both to make sense of, and also sometimes to try to
change, the world around them. This book covers the issues of
globalization as they relate to food. Contributors include Carole
Counihan, Alan Warde, Pat Caplan, Alex McIntosh, Rick Wilk, Jeff
Sobal, Marianne Lien and Krishnendu Ray.
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.
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