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Internationally renowned scholars address the Cuban diaspora from multiple perspectives and locations.
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Imported schnapps gin has a remarkable history in West Africa. Gin was imported in great quantities between 1880 and World War I, when its consumption showed access to the modern, international world. Subsequently schnapps was transformed into a good that signified traditional, local culture. Today, imported schnapps has high status because of its importance for African ritual and as symbol of the status of chiefs and elders, but actual consumption is limited. This book explores this unexpected trajectory of commoditisation to investigate how imported goods acquire specific local meanings. This analysis of consumption and marketing of gin contributes to our understanding of patterns of consumption, rejection and appropriation within processes of identity formation, elite formation, and the redefinition of community in colonial and postcolonial West Africa.
Jenever. --- Gin --- Liquors --- Social aspects --- History. --- Africa, West --- West-Afrika. --- Social life and customs. --- History --- Sociology of culture --- West Africa
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In contemporary global capitalist culture, time-consciousness becomes more important than self-consciousness. In the realm of lived time, the identity of the self opens up to an encounter with otherness. Insights into the ways in which this dynamic unfolds enable one to affirm human temporalities in their potential difference to the temporalities of global capitalism. The book offers an empirical exploration of lived temporalities on markets, in buses and in traditional subsistence in Guatemala, and a theoretical exploration of these through the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and inter-relational approaches within psychoanalysis.
Cultural studies --- Cultural Studies. --- Culture. --- Deleuze. --- Ethnography. --- Ethnology. --- Guatemala. --- Inter-relational Theory. --- Sociology of Culture. --- Time; Guatemala; Deleuze; Inter-relational Theory; Ethnography; Culture; Ethnology; Cultural Studies; Sociology of Culture --- Culture and globalization. --- Time perception. --- Chronometry, Mental --- Duration, Intuition of --- Intuition of duration --- Mental chronometry --- Time --- Time, Cognition of --- Time estimation --- Orientation (Psychology) --- Perception --- Globalization and culture --- Globalization --- Guatemala --- Deleuze --- Inter-relational Theory --- Ethnography --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Cultural Studies --- Sociology of Culture
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In 1981, the European and World Values surveys started the empirical investigations of value orientations on a global scale. This volume builds on these surveys, which now cover a time period of a quarter of a century. Two chapters discuss basic theoretical and methodological issues of value research, while four chapters focus on contemporary processes of value change: cultural globalization, individualization, secularization and democratization. These analyses of the data from the value surveys give new life to social science classics such as Tocqueville, Durkheim, Marx and Weber. The analyses are also of interest to the practitioners of economic and social development as well as educational and cultural policies. Contributors include: Chris Cochran, Yilmaz Esmer, Ronald Inglehart, Neil Nevitte, Shalom Schwartz, Thorleif Pettersson and Christian Welzel. This book was originally published as Volume 5 numbers 2-3 (2006) of Brill's journal ‘Comparative Sociology'.
Social values. --- Social surveys. --- Culture. --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Community surveys --- Surveys, Social --- Social sciences --- Surveys --- Values --- Social aspects --- Research
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French language --- Culture --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Study and teaching --- Study and teaching (secondary) --- Social aspects
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This book, first published in 2007, is an international overview of the state of our knowledge in sociocultural psychology - as a discipline located at the crossroads between the natural and social sciences and the humanities. Since the 1980s, the field of psychology has encountered the growth of a new discipline - cultural psychology - that has built new connections between psychology, sociology, anthropology, history and semiotics. The handbook integrates contributions of sociocultural specialists from fifteen countries, all tied together by the unifying focus on the role of sign systems in human relations with the environment. It emphasizes theoretical and methodological discussions on the cultural nature of human psychological phenomena, moving on to show how meaning is a natural feature of action and how it eventually produces conventional symbols for communication. Such symbols shape individual experiences and create the conditions for consciousness and the self to emerge; turn social norms into ethics; and set history into motion.
Psychology --- Social psychology. --- Culture. --- Psychologie sociale --- Culture --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Mass psychology --- Psychology, Social --- Human ecology --- Social groups --- Sociology --- Social aspects --- Health Sciences --- Psychiatry & Psychology
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This volume presents a selection of the philosophical papers which Richard Rorty has written over the past decade, and complements three previous volumes of his papers: Objectivity, Relativism, and Truth, Essays on Heidegger and Others and Truth and Progress. Topics discussed include the changing role of philosophy in Western culture over the course of recent centuries, the role of the imagination in intellectual and moral progress, the notion of 'moral identity', the Wittgensteinian claim that the problems of philosophy are linguistic in nature, the irrelevance of cognitive science to philosophy, and the mistaken idea that philosophers should find the 'place' of such things as consciousness and moral value in a world of physical particles. The papers form a rich and distinctive collection which will appeal to anyone with a serious interest in philosophy and its relation to culture.
Culture --- Philosophy --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects --- Philosophy. --- Culture. --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Politics and culture. --- Culture and politics --- Political aspects --- Arts and Humanities
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This volume brings together over 25 articles by many of the most important authors who have worked on issues directly related to the theme of religion and globalization. An additional emphasis on culture flags the inclusion of the relation of religion to its wider social context and also permits questioning the boundaries of religion so as to avoid a strong bias in favour of the analysis of institutionalized religion. The key emphasis of the book, however, is the focus specifically on religion, a topic that is still largely ignored in the burgeoning literature on globalization. The articles are divided into five subthemes: theoretical issues; historical approaches to religion and globalization; forms and boundaries of religion; key issues (such as ecology and gender); and regional perspectives. Contributors: Afe Adogame, Elisabeth Arweck, Lori Beaman, Peter Beyer, John Boli, Gary Bouma, Dave Brewington, George Van Campbell, José Casanova, Paul Freston, Nobutaka Inoue, Laurel Kearns, Otto Maduro, Vasilios Makrides, Meredith McGuire, Vincenzo Pace, Rubina Ramji, James T. Richardson, Ole Riis, Roland Robertson, Marie-Andrée Roy, Shandip Saha, John H. Simpson, James V. Spickard, William Stahl, George Thomas, Bryan Turner, Margit Warburg, Michael Wilkinson.
Religion. --- Globalization. --- Culture. --- Religion --- Mondialisation --- Culture --- Globalization --- 291 --- Religion, Primitive --- Atheism --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Global cities --- Globalisation --- Internationalization --- International relations --- Anti-globalization movement --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Social aspects
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2007 CHOICE Outstanding Academic TitleIn this highly original book, anthropologist F. Allan Hanson reveals an entirely unanticipated but vital link between two of the most widely discussed features of contemporary American society: the computer revolution and the culture wars. Hanson argues that the culture wars stem from a divergence in the evolutionary paths of society and culture. Societies have evolved significantly over the last few millennia from small bands of farmers or hunter-gatherers into huge, internally diverse nation-states, while cultures—the closed systems of meanings and symbols that kept small, face-to-face societies together—have failed to keep pace. If cultures became more open, Hanson contends, then the maladaptive rupture between society and culture would be healed and the clashes that currently beset us would be greatly diminished. Interweaving lucid analysis with concrete case studies of common law, education, and other areas of contemporary life, Hanson demonstrates how the widespread use of computers is, in fact, encouraging more originality and open-mindedness, with the potential to ease polarization and calm the culture wars.
Indexing --- Classification --- Culture. --- Information technology --- Books --- Index preparation --- Preparation of indexes --- Subject analysis --- Information organization --- Filing systems --- Knowledge, Classification of --- Cultural sociology --- Culture --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Technologie de l'information --- Indexation --- Aspect social
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The Chicana/o Cultural Studies Forum brings together a diverse group of scholars whose work spans the interdisciplinary fields of Chicana/o studies and cultural studies. Editor Angie Chabram-Dernersesian provides an overview of current debates, locating Chicana/o cultural criticism at the intersections of these fields. She then acts as moderator of a virtual roundtable of critics, including Frances Aparicio, Lisa Lowe, George Lipsitz, Wahneema Lubiano, Renato Rosaldo, José David Saldívar, and Sonia Saldívar-Hull. This highly collaborative and deeply interdisciplinary project addresses the questions: What is the relationship between Chicana/o studies and cultural studies? How do we do cultural studies from within Chicana/o cultural studies? How do Chicana/o cultural studies formations (hemispheric, borderland, and feminist) intermingle? The lively conversations documented here attest to the vitality and spirit of Chicana/o cultural studies today and track the movements between disciplines that share an interest in the study of culture, power relations, identity, and representation. This book offers a unique resource for understanding not just the development of Chicana/o cultural studies, but how new social movements and epistemologies travel and affiliate with progressive forms of social inquiry in the global era.
Culture --- Mexican Americans --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Chicanos --- Hispanos --- Ethnology --- Study and teaching --- Intellectual life --- Social aspects --- #SBIB:39A74 --- Etnografie: Amerika --- Chicanao. --- beginnings. --- book. --- captures. --- character. --- collective. --- cultural. --- deeply. --- exemplified. --- since. --- studies. --- that.
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