Description: Cultural Theory is a concise, highly readable introduction to a frequently marginalized field. This balanced, wide-ranging overview of contemporary cultural theory covers the major thinkers and key concepts that have appeared and developed over the last century. Assuming no specialist knowledge, this introduction deals accessibly with some of the most sophisticated and complex issues in contemporary social thought, including symbolic interactionism, structuralism, psychoanalysis, and the theories of Parsons, Derrida, and Giddens. The volume has an abundance of special features for the beginner, with summaries, biographical notes, suggestions for further reading, and heavy cross-referencing. For anyone with an interest in the theoretical study of culture and society, this book is an ideal guide.

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