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Introduction -- Fear, interest and honor -- The spirit and its expression -- The ancient world -- Medieval Europe -- From Sun King to revolution -- Imperialism and World War I -- World War II -- Hitler to Bush and beyond -- General findings and conclusions.

This introduction charts several of rhythm's various returns as a way of laying out the theoretical and methodological field in which the articles of this special issue find their place. While Henri Lefebvre's rhythmanalysis is perhaps familiar to many, rhythm has appeared in a wide repertoire of guises, in many disciplines over the decades and indeed the centuries. This introduction attends to the particular roles of rhythm in the formation of modernity ranging from the processes of industrialization and the proliferation of new media technologies to film and literary aesthetics as well as conceptualizations of human psychology, social behaviour and physiology. These are some of the historical antecedents to the contemporary understandings of rhythm within body studies to which most of the contributions to this issue are devoted. In this respect, the introduction outlines recent approaches to rhythm as vibration, a force of the virtual, and an intensive excess outside consciousness.

The trajectories of social and cultural theory / Anthony Elliott -- Critical theory of the Frankfurt School / Jordan McKenzie -- Structuralism and post-structuralism / Sam Han -- Structuration theories : Giddens and Bourdieu / Anthony Elliott -- Feminist and post-feminist theories / Ann Branaman -- Zygmunt Bauman and social theory / Keith Tester -- Ideology and social and cultural theory / John Cash -- Psychoanalytic social theory / Anthony Elliott -- Social theories of risk / Patrick Brown -- Networks / Thomas Birtchnell -- Globalization theory / Eric L. Hsu -- Cultural and social things : is there a difference? / Charles Lemert -- British cultural theory / Nick Stevenson -- American cultural theory / Sam Han -- Queer theory / Max Kirsch -- The new mobilities paradigm and social theory / Louis Everuss -- Race/ethnicity and social and cultural theory / Anthony Moran -- Media and cultural identity / Nick Stevenson -- The place of space in social and cultural theory / Simon Susen -- Posthumanism / Anthony Elliott.

Aaron Wildavsky's cultural theory (eg, see "Choosing Preferences by Constructing Institutions: A Cultural Theory of Preference Formation," American Political Science Review, 1987, 81, 1, Mar, 3-21 [also see abstract of "Can Norms Rescue Self-Interest or Macro Explanation Be Joined to Micro Explanation?" in SA 41:1]), which is designed to overcome shortcomings in rational choice theory & to account for people's political preferences, is critically assessed. It is argued that Wildavsky's cultural theory does not facilitate the criticism of political preferences because its understanding of them is based on the libertarian premises that structure our politics. By restricting the influences on an individual's political preferences, cultural theory parallels the naturalistic tendencies of endogenous determinism by reducing society to the status of a physical object, & reproduces the deracinated & conservative view of economistic & libertarian theory. It is concluded that cultural theory -- both in its passive, socially reductive mode & in its active atomistic rationalism -- fails to allow for the criticism of preferences, & shares with liberalism an ahistorical view of the origins of political values. Adapted from the source document.

A STRIKING NEW ATTEMPT TO GO BEHIND THE LIBERAL AND RATIONAL-CHOICE STARTING POINT IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND POLITICAL PREFERENCES IS FOUND IN AARON WILDAVSKY'S CULTURAL THEORY. EVEN WHILE REJECTING METHODOLOGICAL INDIVIDUALISM, CULTURAL THEORY'S MONOCAUSALLY SOCIAL THEORY OF PREFERENCE FORMATION RETAINS IN A NEW GUISE THE LIBERAL PRESERVATION OF PREFERENCES FROM CRITICISM BY REESTABLISHING A DETERMINISTIC VIEW OF THE FORMATION OF VALUES, LEADING IT TO SHARE WITH LIBERALISM AN AHISTORICAL VIEW OF THIER ORIGINS.

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the convergences and divergences of social and cultural theory, and in so doing offers a novel agenda for social and cultural research in the twenty-first century.This Handbook, edited by Anthony Elliott, develops a powerful argument for bringing together social and cultural theory

If today students of social theory read Jurgen Habermas, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens, then proper regard to the question of culture means that they should also read Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and Slavoj Zizek. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Cultural Theory offers a concise, comprehensive overview of the convergences and divergences of social and cultural theory, and in so doing offers a novel agenda for social and cultural research in the twenty-first century. This Handbook, edited by Anthony Elliott,develops a powerful argument for bringing together social and cultural theory more systematically than ever before. Key social and cultural theories, ranging from classical approaches to postmodern, psychoanalytic and post-feminist approaches, are drawn together and critically appraised. There are substantive chapters looking at – among others – structuralism and post-structuralism, critical theory, network analysis, feminist cultural thought, cultural theory and cultural sociology. Throughout the Handbook there is a strong emphasis on interdisciplinarity, with chapters drawing from research in sociology, cultural studies, psychology, politics, anthropology, women's studies, literature and history.Written in a clear and direct style, this Handbook will appeal to a wide undergraduate and postgraduate audience across the social sciences and humanities.