Culture and Economy After the Cultural Turn

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Larry Ray, Andrew Sayer
SAGE, Oct 28, 1999 - Social Science - 277 pages
Traditionally social science treated culture as a peripheral issue, but the last twenty years have witnessed a cultural turn throughout the social sciences. Culture is now at the core of debate.

Culture and Economy After the Cultural Turn examines the impact of the cultural turn for the social sciences in relation to the decline of interest in economic aspects of society. It presents a number of responses to the changing relationship between culture and economy, and to the way in which the cultural turn has sought to understand it. Contributors from a wide range of disciplines present differing views oon these matters in relation to issues of political sensibilities and movements, equality and recognition, `cultural manageme

 

Contents

Valuing Culture and Economy
53
Economy Equality and Recognition
76
Market Boundaries and the Commodification
92
Ways Forward
112
Capitalisms Cultural Turn
135
Social Engineering in
162
Social Differentiation Transgression and the Politics
189
The Dramatics of Environmental
211
Comments on the 1997 British
229
Culture and Economy
246
Index
270
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Andrew Sayer is Professor of Social Theory and Political Economy at Lancaster University.

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