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The Cultural Reader: About

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Article Summaries and Reviews in Cultural Studies. The Cultural Reader is a blog aimed at helping out anyone interesting in studying and understanding culture. The blog contains an ever-growing collection of reviews, summaries and essays, usually of high profile and well known articles and books from the field of cultural studies, sociology, anthropology etc. Recently we also started a (hoping to be) lively Facebook group. Devoted to assorted cultural topics, and I'd really love to see you there. Theory,...

The Cultural Reader: Emile Durkheim - Elementary Forms of Religious Life - summary and review

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Article Summaries and Reviews in Cultural Studies. Friday, April 18, 2014. Emile Durkheim - Elementary Forms of Religious Life - summary and review. Elementary Forms of Religious Life" is one of Emile Durkheim's most notable and complex pieces of writing. The article relates to the sociology of religion but also sets forth Durkheim. In summary, the key point in Durkheim's "Elementary Forms of Religious Life" is the relation he offers between social structure of religion and what can be described as ontol...

The Cultural Reader: Mary Douglas – Ritual Uncleanness –summary and review

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Article Summaries and Reviews in Cultural Studies. Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Mary Douglas – Ritual Uncleanness –summary and review. In chapter 1 of her famous " Purity and Danger. Titled "Ritual Uncleanness", structuralist anthropologist Mary Douglas bases her distinction between the clean and sacred and the unclean and unsacred, while refuting dominant attitudes in 19. Like Douglas, Frazer, Smith, Durkheim. And other anthropologists established the relationship between sanctity and profanity as central...

The Cultural Reader: Emile Durkheim / What is Social Fact? – summary and review

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Article Summaries and Reviews in Cultural Studies. Sunday, April 13, 2014. Emile Durkheim / What is Social Fact? 8211; summary and review. Emile Durkheim's ground breaking article "What is Social Fact? Is one of the better known articulations of the "building blocks" of functionalist and structuralist sociology. Durkheim defines social facts as predominantly "things", that is real agents, that should be at the focal point of the study of society. For Durkheim. Social facts are quite simply the things tha...

The Cultural Reader: Mary Douglas – secular defilement –summary and review

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Article Summaries and Reviews in Cultural Studies. Wednesday, March 14, 2012. Mary Douglas – secular defilement –summary and review. Chapter 2 of Mary Douglas's " Purity and Danger. Douglas negated the distinction between "primitive" rituals and modern hygiene codes. She argues that symbolic system of defilement can be rather similar and the only difference is the way in which it is manifested in different cultures. See also: Mary Douglas - Ritual Uncleanness. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). To us an...