Suchergebnisse

Captured by the City: New Perspectives in Urban Culture Studies is a collection of eighteen essays on urban places, people, and phenomena. In it, cities in North America, Europe, and Asia offer themselves as dynamic encounters to those who study them and to those who live in them on a daily basis. Different disciplines - sociology, anthropology, performance studies, architectural history, linguistics, media studies, and documentary poetics, to name just a few - intersect here to help shape a

I consider the main problem areas in the academic project "The 1990s: The Semantics of Russian Culture," undertaken by researchers, recent graduates, & the first postgraduates of the Moscow Instit for European Cultures. The areas include new figures on the public scene; new forms of communication; new institutions; current processes in culture & society. I examine the social & historical framework of the formation of culture studies as an academic discipline in contemporary Russia, the alternative perspectives & tasks of the sociology of culture in Russian today. Adapted from the source document.

'Democracy and Political Culture' attempts to give a total picture of the political-social culture of Great Britain in the 20th century. It is a study of British democracy and asks the question: what does it mean to describe Britain as a democratic society?