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Cultural Reproduction
Taylor and Francis 2002; US$ 45.95This timely and lively book teems with new insights and speculations about how culture is reproduced. Drawing on a wide range of perspectives, it will be recognized as a key text in the sociology of culture and cultural studies. more...
Visual Culture
Routledge 1995; US$ 57.95This collection of original and exciting essays explores the 'visual' character of contemporary culture. Examining film, painting, propaganda, photography and television, this is an indispensible guide to this field. more...
Transgression
Taylor and Francis 2003; US$ 50.95Transgression is truly a key idea for our time. Society is created by constraint and boundaries, but as our culture is increasingly subject to uncertainty and flux we find it more and more difficult to determine where those boundaries lie. In this fast moving study, Chris Jenks ranges widely over the history of ideas, the major theorists, and the... more...
Thought as a System
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 33.95Bohm suggests that collective thought and knowledge have become so automated that we are in large part controlled by them, with a subsequent loss of authenticity, freedom and order. more...
Childhood
Taylor and Francis 2005; US$ 51.95In this book Chris Jenks looks at what the ways in which we construct our image of childhood can tell us about ourselves. After a general discussion of the social construction of childhood, the book is structured around three examples of the way the image of the child is played out in society: the history of childhood from medieval times through... more...
Subculture
SAGE Publications 2004; US$ 47.95This illuminating book, which explores the idea of subcultures, traces the concept back to the works of Tonnies and Durkheim. Jenks also analyses subcultures in American urban sociology and criminology. Finally, he evaluates the work of Stuart Hall and the Birmingham School and argues for the continuing relevance of subcultures. more...
Rationality, Education and the Social Organization of Knowledege (RLE Edu L)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 105.00The manner in which we variously come to an understanding of our world presents problems for us all, but the unified method by which we ought best to acquire such knowledge represents the particular problem of contemporary education. This important book seeks to explore some of the underlying practises and assumptions that go to produce and sustain... more...









