Jan-Erik Lane, Svante Ersson

Culture and Politics (eBook, ePUB)

A Comparative Approach

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition of a well-established text has been expanded and fully updated in line with new events. It provides a comprehensive introduction to the enduring phenomenon of culture and its impact on contemporary society and politics, and is a book that no serious scholar or student of political culture should be without.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317155973
• Artikelnr.: 45096397

Autorenporträt

Jan-Erik Lane, University of Freiburg, Germany and Svante Ersson is Associate Professor at University of Umeå, Sweden.

Inhaltsangabe

Does Culture Matter?
I: Culture and Outcomes
1: 'Culture' and the Concepts of Culture
2: What Culture Matters For: Outcomes
II: Ethnicity
3: Ethnic Groups and Nations
4: Outcomes of Ethnicity
III: Civilizations
5: Civilizations and the Major Types of Religion
6: Religion and its Outcomes
IV: Legacies
7: Historical Legacies and the Colonial Heritage
8: Family Structure and Democracy
V: Universal Values
9: Universal Values: Three Main Theories
10: Value Orientations: How Real Are They?
11: Gender (Sex) as a Major Cultural Cleavage
12: Conclusion: The Impact of Culture on Outcomes

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Introductory Chapter: On Cultural Analysis of Politics Part 1: On the Methodology of Cultural Analysis 1. Cultural Enquiry: Scientific Objectivity and Ethical Neutrality 2. Cultural Studies: Subjectivism and 'Verstehen' Part 2: Elements of Culture 3. Ethnicity 4. Religion 5. Tradition 6. Religion or Tradition: The Lack of Modernization in the Arab world Part 3: Research into Value-Orientations: Some Critiques 7. Methodology for the Enquiry into Value-Orientations 8. Gender and Homosexuality 9. Basic Value-Orientations 10. Social Capital: Identification of the Concept(s) 11. Ambiguity of Post-Materialism 12. What are Self-Expression or Emancipatory Values? Part 4: Exploration into New Values 13. Happiness or Life Satisfaction 14. Culture and Ecology 15. Globalization Values 16. Culture and Conflicts 17. Causes of Cultural Conflicts 18. New Aspects of the Attitudes towards Homosexuality and Gender