Cultural Turn: Scene-setting Essays on Contemporary Cultural Theory Book

In this informative and accessible book, David Chaney explains the ``turn to culture'' and the lessons to be drawn from this movement. Concepts of culture have generated perspectives and methodologies that have challenged critical orthodoxies and attracted the energetic enthusiasm of younger scholars. More significantly, the forms of contemporary culture demand a radical reappraisal of the terms of description of the modern world.The Cultural Turn offers a sociology of contemporary culture that is not imprisoned in the radical postures and jargon of cultural studies. Chaney's purpose, to review the character and lessons of this ``tun to culture'' in a number of academic fields, to explore key themes in contemporary culture in some detail, and fninally, to examine some of the ways in which cultural forms are increasingly seen to dominate social reality, is achieved through a series of lucid and thought-provoking essays.Read More