Theory of Culture: 2 (New Directions in Cultural Analysis) - Tapa dura

With the increasing focus on the concept of culture by sociologists and other social scientists, there is now a need for clarifying and developing theoretical perspectives on this issue. The contributors to this volume have answered this call, each adding new insight to the debate over culture, its definition, and its relationship with other basic categories in sociological theory. Along the way they touch on other fundamental issues, such as the interrelationship of culture with society, the human personality, and the wider environment of the human condition.

Richard Munch is University Professor of Sociology at Heinrich-Heine-Universitat, Dusseldorf. Neil J. Smelser is University Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, and author of Social Paralysis and Social Change (California, 1991).