Publisher's Synopsis
This is a collection of essays concerning the study of culture from a sociological perspective. Exploring and extending recent studies of culture with both qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book focuses on the ways in which contemporary cultural products function as vocabularies of public life.;The book, covering a range of topics, among which is an examination of the symbolic structure of religion, science and the arts, is unified by a common concern for the concrete manifestations of culture and the importance of understanding its internal structure.
