Collection of thirty-one extracts from previously published material, 1942-1988
Includes bibliographical references
edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman
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?