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Product Description Using the practices and artifacts of everyday life as a launchpad, Understanding Culture and Society explores the cultures of ethnicity, gender, identity, class, age, shopping, and more. It uses a range of illustrations and case studies from music and computer games to sports and local clubs. Key themes include: How "meaning" is manufactured The construction of identity Classifications of cultures The politics of power How cultures are transformed About the Author Dr Mark J Smith is Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences, The Open University as well as Visiting Professor at the University of Oslo. He previously taught social and cultural theory at the University of Sussex, Brighton University and Queen’s University (Canada). His publications include Ecologism: Towards Ecological Citizenship (Open University Press/University of Minnesota Press, 1998), Culture: Reinventing the Social Sciences (Open University Press, 2000).

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01 December 2007
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