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The author reviews the primary frameworks through which North American sociologists have conceived of the relation between formal education and culture and explains how sociologists' preponderant conception of formal schooling as an individual-level phenomenon and a metrical quantity has come to constrain intellectual progress in much of the subfield. The author offers two analytic strategies that might help loosen this constraint. [Reprinted by permission of Sage Publications Inc., copyright 2008 The American Academy of Political and Social Science.]

Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously

Public space is a physical spot where public activities occur. By comparing the theatre of Dionysus in Athens polis and courtyard theatre in ancestral hall in Ming and Qing dynasty, in view of the component of the space, the activities in the space and sense of time and space on the stage, this article describes how the civic culture and subordinate culture occurred in the theatres, analyses the effects that theatre spaces and senses of the time and space made on the political culture. In the last part, the article in view of environmental psychology reveals the connection between the space and culture, which are the persistent vitality in the two political cultures.

The East Siberian Arctic is an enormous territory. In many respects it still remains little explored. The main matrix for assembling versatile knowledge about the nature and man of the region is the Bering Land concept. In this article, the history of the development of theorethical grounds of the research and exploration of the region is discussed. The history of human settlement in arctic West Beringia spans approximately 50,000 years. More than two-century-long practice of archaeological study comprises three periods: the initial stage ending before WWII; post-war period, or Soviet stage (1940s to 1991); and the modern post-Soviet stage (1991 to the present day). Basic ideas on geology and paleogeography of the region were formed during the first two stages; then methodological grounds were expanded in archaeological studies. The first Pleistocene site was discovered in the area in the early 1970s. The knowledge on the ancient past of Beringia has been largely obtained within the modern stage of research when various evidence of the past human activity has been received, which enables to reconstruct the process of human settlement in the area. Unique objects of the world cultural heritage, such as Zhokhov and Yana sites, have been revealed. These materials allow identification of the complex technologies of the Stone Age, thanks to which people occupied these areas, and evaluation of the features of the socio-cultural development of the ancient population of the region. Results of the studies performed recently demonstrate a giant scholarly potential for further research in that area. Qualitative changes in the examination of the region are largely associated with the expansion of scholarly tools.

We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustees under God, of the civilization of the world. God has not been preparing the English speaking and Teutonic peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain [and] idle contemplation and self admiration. No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns. He has made us adept in government that we may administer government among savages and senile people.—U.S. Senator Albert Beveridge, ca. 1890

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Enlightenment in the Peat Moss -- PART ONE: A NEW WORLD IN THE NORTH -- 1 The Moral Geography of Scotland -- 2 Natural History and Civil Cameralism -- 3 Improving the Scottish Climate -- PART TWO: RIVAL ECOLOGIES -- 4 Alternate Highlands -- 5 Rival Ecologies of Global Commerce -- 6 Larch Autarky -- PART THREE: STATIONARY HIGHLANDS -- 7 Coal Exhaustion in 1789 -- 8 Overpopulation and Extirpation -- 9 Wasteland Island -- 10 "A Stationary Condition for Ever" -- Conclusion: The Ghosts of the Enlightenment -- Maps -- List of Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Illustrations.

The highly acclaimed first edition of The Art of Democracy won the 1996 Ray and Pat Brown Award for ""Best Book,"" presented by the Popular Culture Association.

Cover -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- The philosophy behind the book -- What are culture and identity? -- The importance and origins of culture and identity -- Using the skills of sociology -- Exam focus -- Study guidance -- Using concept maps -- The content of the book -- 2 Key Issues in the Study of Culture and Identity -- Introduction -- What is culture? -- What is identity? -- Attempts to define culture -- Non-sociological uses of the concept of culture -- Socialization, norms and values -- Evaluating the concept of culture: three problems -- Understanding the concept of identity: do not lose sight of the individual -- Conclusion -- 3 Classical Views on Culture and Identity -- Introduction -- Introducing two classical views on culture -- View one: culture as order - functionalism -- View two: culture as ideological control - Marxism -- Conclusion -- 4 The Development of 'Action' Sociology and Interactionists -- Introduction -- The role of meanings and motives in society -- Georg Simmel -- Contemporary forms of action sociology -- Conclusion -- 5 Socialization, Self-Identity and the Life Course -- Introduction -- Socialization -- Self-identity and the map of one's life -- The life course -- Age and ageing -- Returning to the relationship between the individual and society -- Conclusion -- 6 How Much Agency Do Individuals Have in Culture? -- Introduction -- Thinking using culture: the creative self -- Clarifying what is meant by 'agency' -- Reflexivity -- Conclusion -- 7 Modern and Postmodern Culture and Identity -- Introduction -- What is modernity? -- What is postmodernity? -- Postmodern identities -- Evaluation of postmodernism -- Theories of risk -- Conclusion -- 8 Mass Culture and Popular Culture -- Introduction -- Basic definitions -- The 'mass society thesis'.

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