EVERYDAY LIFE AND CULTURAL THEORY
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EVERYDAY LIFE AND CULTURAL THEORY (ebook)

BEN HIGHMORE

$1,040.00
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Editorial:
ROUTLEDGE
Materia
SOCIOLOGIA
ISBN:
9781134595594
Páginas:
208
Formato:
Epublication content package
Idioma:
Inglés
DRM
Si

Everyday Life and Cultural Theory provides a unique critical and historical introduction to theories of everyday life. Ben Highmore traces the development of conceptions of everyday life, from the cultural sociology of Georg Simmel, through the Mass-Observation project of the 1930s to contemporary theorists such as Michel de Certeau.

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