Culture and society : contemporary debates / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman. - Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1990. - vii, 375 p. ; 24 cm.

Collection of thirty-one extracts from previously published material, 1942-1988.

Includes bibliographical references.

The case for culture -- Approaches to culture: functionalist, semiotic, dramaturgical, Weberian, Durkheimian, Marxian, poststructuralist -- The place of religion : is modernity a secular or sacred order? -- The debate over the "end of ideology" : can secular reason create cultural order? -- Modernism or postmodernism : dissolution or reconstruction of moral order?

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