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Material Worlds eBook Series

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  • Explaining Traditions

    Folk Behavior in Modern Culture

    by Simon J. Bronner ...
    Series series Material Worlds
    Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining Traditions: Folk Behavior in Modern Culture, Simon J. Bronner discusses the underlying reasons ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

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  • The Minimal Self

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    "Even more valuable than its widely praised predecessor, The Culture of Narcissism." —John W. AldridgeFaced with an escalating arms race, rising crime and terrorism, environmental deterioration, and long-term economic decline, people have retreated from commitments that presuppose a secure and orderly world. In his latest book, Christopher Lasch, the renowned historian and social critic, ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Appropriate

    A Provocation

    by Paisley Rekdal ...
    A timely, nuanced work that dissects the thorny debate around cultural appropriation and the literary imagination.How do we properly define cultural appropriation, and is it always wrong? If we can write in the voice of another, should we? And if so, what questions do we need to consider first? In Appropriate, creative writing professor Paisley Rekdal addresses a young writer to delineate how the ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • Mass Communication and American Social Thought

    Key Texts, 1919-1968

    by Jane Addams, Theodor Adorno, Gordon Allport, Sherwood Anderson, Raymond Bauer, Daniel Bell, Bernard Berelson, Edward Bernays, Herbert Blumer, Warren Breed, Ernest W. Burgess, Hadley Cantril, John Cheever, Charles Horton Cooley, Reuel Denny, John Dewey, George Gallup, George Gerbner, Nathan Glazer, Herta Herzog, Max Horkheimer, Donald Horton, Helen MacGill Hughes, Julian Sorrell Huxley, Harold Innis, Elihu Katz, Ernst Kris, Galdys Engel Lang, Kurt Lang, Harold Dwight Lasswell, Paul F. Lazarsfeld, Alfred McLung Lee, Elizabeth Briant Lee, Daniel Lerner, Walter Lippman, Alain Locke, Leo Lowenthal, Helen M. Lynd, Robert S. Lynd, Dwight Macdonald, Duncan MacDougald, Herbert Marcuse, Thelma McCormack, Marshall McLuhan, Rolf Meyersohn, C Wright Mills, Newton Minow, Lewis Mumford, Gunnar Myrdal, Robert E. Park, Hortense Powdermaker, Saul Rae, Stuart Rice, David Riesman, John W. Riley, James Rorty, Edward Sapir, David Sarnoff, Herbert Schiller, Wilbur Schramm, Dallas Smythe, Hans Speier, Leila A. Sussmann, Sidney Verba, Norbert Wiener, Malcolm Willey, Louis Wirth, R Richard Wohl, Charles Wright, Robert K. Merton ...
    Series series Critical Media Studies: Institutions, Politics, and Culture
    This anthology of hard-to-find primary documents provides a solid overview of the foundations of American media studies. Focusing on mass communication and society and how this research fits into larger patterns of social thought, this valuable collection features key texts covering the media studies traditions of the Chicago school, the effects tradition, the critical theory of the Frankfurt ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • The Theory Toolbox

    Critical Concepts for the Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

    by Jeffrey T. Nealon, Susan Searls Giroux ...
    Series series Culture and Politics Series
    This text involves students in understanding and using the "tools" of critical social and literary theory from the first day of class. It is an ideal first introduction before students encounter more difficult readings from critical and postmodern perspectives.Nealon and Searls Giroux describe key concepts and illuminate each with an engaging inquiry that asks students to consider deeper and ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Folklore: The Basics

    by Simon J. Bronner ...
    Series series The Basics
    Folklore: The Basics is an engaging guide to the practice and interpretation of folklore. Taking examples from around the world, it explores the role of folklore in expressing fundamental human needs, desires, and anxieties that often are often not revealed through other means. Providing a clear framework for approaching the study of folklore, it introduces the reader to methodologies for ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • On Compromise

    Art, Politics, and the Fate of an American Ideal

    by Rachel Greenwald Smith ...
    A strident argument about the dangers of compromise in art, politics, and everyday lifeOn Compromise is an argument against contemporary liberal society’s tendency to view compromise as an unalloyed good—politically, ethically, and artistically. In a series of clear, convincing essays, Rachel Greenwald Smith discusses the dangers of thinking about compromise as an end rather than as a means. To ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Practicing Culture

    Edited by Craig Calhoun, Richard Sennett ...
    Series series Taking Culture Seriously
    Practicing Culture seeks to revitalize the field of cultural sociology with an emphasis not on abstract theoretical debates but on showing how to put theoretical sources to work in empirical research. Culture is not just products and representations but practices. It is made and remade in countless small ways and occasional bursts of innovation. It is something people do – and do in rich variety ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Truth Considered and Applied

    Examining Postmodernism, History, and Christian Faith

    by Stewart E. Kelly ...
    For philosophy and theology students, Truth Considered and Applied examines the leading theories of truth in relation to postmodernism, history, and the Christian faith. Author Stewart E. Kelly defends Christianity in the face of postmodernist challenges that would label such religious faith as merely one version of truth among many in a pluralistic world. Likewise, in looking at Christianity as a ... Read more

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  • The Year's Work in the Oddball Archive

    by Joseph Campana, Theodore Bale, Atia Sattar, Beth A. McCoy, Robin Blyn, Dennis Allen, Timothy Sweet, Charles M. Tung, Aaron Jaffe, Grant Farred, Seth Morton, David L. Martin ...
    Series series The Year's Work: Studies in Fan Culture and Cultural Theory
    "By playing with notions of collecting and cataloging, this anthology offers a range of investigations into detritus and forgotten ephemera."—Colin Dickey, coeditor of The Morbid Anatomy AnthologyThe modern age is no stranger to the cabinet of curiosities, the freak show, or a drawer full of odds and ends. These collections of oddities engagingly work against the rationality and order of the ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Framing Public Memory

    by Charles E. Morris III, Kendall R. Phillips, Bradford Vivian, Amos Kiewe, Barry Schwartz, Horst-Alfred Heinrich, Edward S. Casey, Charles E. Scott, Rosa A. Eberly, Professor Barbara Biesecker0, Professor Stephen Howard Browne1, Barbie Zelizer2 ...
    Series series Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique
    A collection of essays by prominent scholars from many disciplines on the construction of public memoriesThe study of public memory has grown rapidly across numerous disciplines in recent years, among them American studies, history, philosophy, sociology, architecture, and communications. As scholars probe acts of collective remembrance, they have shed light on the cultural processes of memory. ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Cool Characters

    Irony and American Fiction

    by Lee Konstantinou ...
    Charting a new course in the criticism of postwar fiction, Cool Characters examines the changing status of irony in American cultural and political life from World War II to the present, showing how irony migrated from the countercultural margins of the 1950s to the cultural mainstream of the 1980s. Along the way, irony was absorbed into postmodern theory and ultimately became a target of recent ... Read more

    $37.79 USD