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Material culture in the social word : values, activities, lifestyles
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ISBN: 033519821X 0335198228 Year: 1999 Publisher: Milton Keynes : Open University Press,

Critical social theory : culture, society and critique
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ISBN: 0761954791 9780761954798 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Sage

Materiality and society
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ISBN: 1280951192 0335224733 9780335224739 9781280951190 9780335224739 0335208568 9780335208562 033520855X 9780335208555 Year: 2005 Publisher: Maidenhead Open University Press

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This book examines the relationships between society and material culture: the interaction between people and things. Tim Dant argues that the traditional approach to material culture has focused on the symbolic meanings of objects, largely overlooking the material impact that objects have on everyday life in late modernity. Dant resists the now well-established model of consumption as the principal relationship with `things'' in our lives. Using the motor car as a recurring theme, he shows how we confront our society through material interaction with the objects that surround us. Materiality

Material culture in the social world: values, activities, lifestyles
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ISBN: 9780335198214 Year: 2008 Publisher: Maidenhead Open University Press

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Television and the moral imaginary : society through the small screen
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ISBN: 9780230234819 Year: 2012 Publisher: Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan

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Critical social theory : culture, society, and critique
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ISBN: 0761954783 9786610538713 1280538716 1847871194 Year: 2003 Publisher: London : SAGE,

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Critical theory has left an indelible mark on postwar social thought. But what are the relations between critical theory and 'the cultural turn'? This text demonstrates the origins of critical theory in the Marxian analysis of the capitalist mode of production and Freudian psychoanalysis.


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Knowledge, ideology and discourse : a sociological perspective
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ISBN: 0415047862 Year: 1991 Publisher: London New York Routledge

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