Collection of thirty-one extracts from previously published material, 1942-1988
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Includes bibliographical references
NOTES PERTAINING TO TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
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edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman
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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?