Toward Assimilations of Political Economy and Postmodernism with Cultural Studies
Author: Eung-Jun Min
Publisher:
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 556
ISBN-13:
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Modernization and Postmodernization
Author: Ronald Inglehart
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2020-06-30
Total Pages: 463
ISBN-13: 0691214425
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRonald Inglehart argues that economic development, cultural change, and political change go together in coherent and even, to some extent, predictable patterns. This is a controversial claim. It implies that some trajectories of socioeconomic change are more likely than others--and consequently that certain changes are foreseeable. Once a society has embarked on industrialization, for example, a whole syndrome of related changes, from mass mobilization to diminishing differences in gender roles, is likely to appear. These changes in worldviews seem to reflect changes in the economic and political environment, but they take place with a generational time lag and have considerable autonomy and momentum of their own. But industrialization is not the end of history. Advanced industrial society leads to a basic shift in values, de-emphasizing the instrumental rationality that characterized industrial society. Postmodern values then bring new societal changes, including democratic political institutions and the decline of state socialist regimes. To demonstrate the powerful links between belief systems and political and socioeconomic variables, this book draws on a unique database, the World Values Surveys. This database covers a broader range than ever before available for looking at the impact of mass publics on political and social life. It provides information from societies representing 70 percent of the world's population--from societies with per capita incomes as low as $300 per year to those with per capita incomes one hundred times greater and from long-established democracies with market economies to authoritarian states.
New Media, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory after Postmodernism
Author: R. Samuels
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2009-12-07
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 0230104185
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity. In fact, by showing how individual autonomy is now being generated through technological and cultural automation, Samuels posits that we must rethink modernity and postmodernity.
Postmodernism and China
Author: Xudong Zhang
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2000-10-27
Total Pages: 465
ISBN-13: 0822380226
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFew countries have been so transformed in recent decades as China. With a dynamically growing economy and a rapidly changing social structure, China challenges the West to understand the nature of its modernization. Using postmodernism as both a global frame of periodization and a way to break free from the rigid ideology of westernization as modernity, this volume’s diverse group of contributors argues that the Chinese experience is crucial for understanding postmodernism. Collectively, these essays question the implications of specific phenomena, like literature, architecture, rock music, and film, in a postsocialist society. Some essays address China’s complicity in—as well as its resistance to—the culture of global capitalism. Others evaluate the impact of efforts to redefine national culture in terms of enhanced freedoms and expressions of the imagination in everyday life. Still others discuss the general relaxation of political society in post-Mao China, the emergence of the market and its consumer mass culture, and the fashion and discourse of nostalgia. The contributors make a clear case for both the historical uniqueness of Chinese postmodernism and the need to understand its specificity in order to fully grasp the condition of postmodernity worldwide. Although the focus is on mainland China, the volume also includes important observations on social and cultural realities in Hong Kong and Taiwan, whose postmodernity has so far been confined—in both Chinese and English-speaking worlds—to their economic and consumer activities instead of their political and cultural dynamism. First published as a special issue of boundary 2, Postmodernism and China includes seven new essays. By juxtaposing postmodernism with postsocialism and by analyzing China as a producer and not merely a consumer of the culture of the postmodern, it will contribute to critical discourses on globalism, modernity, and political economics, as well as to cultural and Asian studies. Contributors. Evans Chan, Arif Dirlik, Dai Jinhua, Liu Kang, Anthony D. King, Jeroen de Kloet, Abidin Kusno, Wendy Larson, Chaoyang Liao, Ping-hui Liao, Sebastian Hsien-hao Liao, Sheldon Hsiao-peng Lu, Wang Ning, Xiaobing Tang, Xiaoying Wang, Chen Xiaoming, Xiaobin Yang, Zhang Yiwu, Xudong Zhang
The Cultural Context of Economics and Politics
Author: T. William Boxx
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 112
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcept for chap. 1, papers presented at a conference held Apr. 14, 1993, at Saint Vincent College, Latrobe, Pa., sponsored by the College's Center for Economic and Policy Education. Includes bibliographical references. 1. Political Economy and Culture: Principles of the Social Order / T. William Boxx and Gary M. Quinlivan -- 2. Culture, Economics and Politics / Thomas Sowell -- 3. Go to Harvard and Turn Left: The Rise of Socialist Ideology in Higher Education / Dwight R. Lee -- 4. Economic and Political Perspectives in the Entertainment Media / S. Robert Lichter -- 5. Taking Care of Business, Taking Care of Culture: The American Corporation and the American Culture Wars / George Weigel -- 6. Cultural Studies and the Conditions for Entrepreneurship / Don Lavoie -- 7. Our Economic Culture / Peter L. Berger -- 8. The Family Connection in Democratic Capitalist Societies / Brigitte Berger.
From the Margins to the Centre
Author: Justin O'Connor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 135193533X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach of the chapters in this volume derives from recently conducted research grounded in an attempt to examine some of the issues posed in what can be described as postmodernist theorising on the nature of the contemporary city. Implicit in the very conception of the book, and running through each of the contributions, is the view that contemporary popular culture is crucial to the understanding of the transformations to which we refer, and that the investigation of this popular culture needs to move beyond the parameters of cultural studies to include sociological, political and economic analyses. In addition to students of popular cultural studies, the book will be of interest to all those studying sociology, urban studies and cultural studies, as well as those with a desire to have contemporary social theorising more firmly located in empirical investigation.
Cultures Merging
Author: Eric L. Jones
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2016-06-28
Total Pages: 315
ISBN-13: 0691171041
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Economists agree about many things--contrary to popular opinion--but the majority agree about culture only in the sense that they no longer give it much thought." So begins the first chapter of Cultures Merging, in which Eric Jones--one of the world's leading economic historians--takes an eloquent, pointed, and personal look at the question of whether culture determines economics or is instead determined by it. Bringing immense learning and originality to the issue of cultural change over the long-term course of global economic history, Jones questions cultural explanations of much social behavior in Europe, East Asia, the United States, Australia, and the Middle East. He also examines contemporary globalization, arguing that while centuries of economic competition have resulted in the merging of cultures into fewer and larger units, these changes have led to exciting new syntheses. Culture matters to economic outcomes, Jones argues, but cultures in turn never stop responding to market forces, even if some elements of culture stubbornly persist beyond the time when they can be explained by current economic pressures. In the longer run, however, cultures show a fluidity that will astonish some cultural determinists. Jones concludes that culture's "ghostly transit through history" is much less powerful than noneconomists often claim, yet it has a greater influence than economists usually admit. The product of a lifetime of reading and thinking on culture and economics, a work of history and an analysis of the contemporary world, Cultures Merging will be essential reading for anyone concerned about the interaction of cultures and markets around the world.
New Media, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory After Postmodernism
Author: Robert Samuels
Publisher:
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781349382354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cultural Logic of Contemporary Capitalism
Author: Nico Baumbach
Publisher:
Published: 2016-05-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780822368472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1984 Fredric Jameson wrote that "everything in our social life--from economic value and state power to practices and to the very structure of the psyche itself--can be said to have become 'cultural' in some original and yet untheorized sense." The essays in this special issue track the status of this claim some thirty years later, inquiring into the relationship of art, aesthetics, and cultural production to political economy today. At a moment when interpretation (including "ideology critique" and "symptomatic reading") has been variously supplanted by descriptivism, empiricism, and the return of metaphysics, contributors here pursue the possibilities for an engaged cultural criticism that is attentive to form while rejecting a depoliticized formalism. Spanning a wide range of cultural sites--from recent Hollywood cinema to post-broadcast television, manufactured landscape photography, contemporary West African art, and "new materialism" in philosophy--they ask what the "formal tendencies" of contemporary cultural production (including theory itself) can tell us about the cultural logic of contemporary capitalism. The collection includes a new interview with Jameson conducted by the editors. Contributors: Jennifer Bajorek, Nico Baumbach, Jonathan Beller, Alexander R. Galloway, Fredric Jameson, Sulgi Lie, Alberto Toscano, Amy Villarejo, Damon R. Young, Genevieve Yue
Beyond Modernism and Postmodernism
Author: Maurice R. Berube
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2001-11-30
Total Pages: 152
ISBN-13: 0313073562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBerube examines the political matrix of intellectual and cultural America. In a wide-ranging series of essays from the rise of the postmodern intellectual to a modernist appreciation of the spiritual quality of the paintings of Jackson Pollock, Berube stakes out his claim that all areas of human endeavor are rooted in a politics of culture. The essay collection is divided into three sections: The first two essays deal with the postmodern intellectual and the corporate university; the second section plumbs the depth of a conservative school reform movement and asks whether we have not reached an end to education reform. The last section contains essays pertaining to precarious state of arts education in the schools, reflections on a modernist literary canon, the contribution of Pollock and plumbing alternative views of Jesus as the penultimate revolutionary. Of particular interest to scholars, students, and other researchers involved with cultural studies and education.
