Summary
Contents
Subject index
With the ‘cultural turn’, the concept of culture has assumed enormous importance in our understanding of the interrelations between social, political, and economic structures, patterns of everyday interaction, and systems of meaning-making. In The SAGE Handbook of Cultural Analysis, the leading figures in their fields explore the implications of this paradigm shift. Addressed to academics and advanced students in all fields of the social sciences and humanities, this Handbook is at once a synthesis of advances in the field, with a comprehensive coverage of the scholarly literature, and a collection of original and provocative essays by some of the brightest intellectuals of our time.
Research Theory and Practice
The chapters gathered in this final part of the book move from the descriptions of current methodologies associated with particular disciplinary or interdisciplinary traditions of inquiry that are considered in Part I to critical reflections on the theory-practice nexus. We understand this in its broadest sense as concerning the relations between the theoretical, methodological, ethical and political issues associated with different traditions of cultural research. Given this, we have avoided the temptation to organize this part of the book on the model of a methods manual ranging across all of the methods that might be drawn on for the purposes of cultural analysis to focus on areas of debate and practice where the theory-practice nexus has been the ...
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