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Culture

Culture (from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning "to cultivate") is a term that has different meanings. For example, in 1952, Alfred Kroeber and Clyde Kluckhohn compiled a list of 164 definitions of "culture" in Culture: A Critical Review of Concepts and Definitions. However, the word ...
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Totem and Taboo

Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Mental Lives of Savages and Neurotics is a book by Sigmund Freud published in German in 1913 under the title Totem und Tabu: Einige Übereinstimmungen im Seelenleben der Wilden und der Neurotiker. It is a...
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Sigmund Freud
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Reason and Revolution

Reason and Revolution

Reason and Revolution: Hegel and the Rise of Social Theory, published by Herbert Marcuse in 1941, is a dialectical study of the social theories of Hegel and Marx. The author characterises it as a reinterpretation of Hegel's philosophy, with the...
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Herbert Marcuse
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Absurdistan

Absurdistan

Absurdistan is a 2006 novel by Gary Shteyngart. It chronicles the adventures of Misha Vainberg, the 325-pound son of the 1,238th-richest man in Russia, as he struggles to return to his true love in the South Bronx. After Misha's father kills a...
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Gary Shteyngart
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May 2, 2006
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Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem

Wolf Totem is a semi-autobiographical novel about the experiences of a young student from Beijing who finds himself sent down to the countryside of Inner Mongolia in 1967, at the height of China's Cultural Revolution. The author, Lü Jiamin, wrote...
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Lu Jiamin
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Apr 2004
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Critical Path

Critical Path is a book written by US author and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller. First published in 1981, it is alongside Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth one of his best-known works. Vast in its scope, it describes Fuller's own vision of the...
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Buckminster Fuller
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1981
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Knowledge and Decisions

Knowledge and Decisions

Knowledge and Decisions is a non-fiction book by American economist Thomas Sowell. Sowell explicates social and economic knowledge and how it is transmitted through the many facets of society, and how that transmission affects decisions made....
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Thomas Sowell
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1996
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Economy and Society

Economy and Society is a book by political economist and sociologist Max Weber, published posthumously in Germany in 1922 by his wife Marianne. Alongside The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, it is considered to be one of Weber's most...
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Max Weber
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Social Evolution

Social Evolution

Social Evolution is the title of an essay by Benjamin Kidd, which became available as a book published by Macmillan and co London in 1894. In it, Kidd discusses the basis for society as an evolving phenomenon, with reference to past societies, the...
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Benjamin Kidd
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Whoever you are

Whoever you are

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Mem Fox
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Principles of Western Civilisation

Principles of Western Civilisation

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Benjamin Kidd
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The Science of Power

The Science of Power

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Benjamin Kidd
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One-dimensional man

One-dimensional man

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Herbert Marcuse
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Continuities in cultural evolution

Continuities in cultural evolution

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Margaret Mead
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Ethnic cultures of the world

Ethnic cultures of the world

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Philip M. Parker
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Prospects for conservatives

Prospects for conservatives

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Russell Kirk
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The time falling bodies take to light

The time falling bodies take to light

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William Irwin Thompson
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Negative ethnicity

Negative ethnicity

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Koigi wa Wamwere
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Blood, Bread, and Roses

Blood, Bread, and Roses

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Judy Grahn
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Gift Imagination and the Erotic Life of Pr

Gift Imagination and the Erotic Life of Pr

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Lewis Hyde
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Conscious evolution

Conscious evolution

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Barbara Marx Hubbard
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Race and Culture

Race and Culture

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Thomas Sowell
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The Theory Of Human Progression And Natural Probability Of A Reign Of Justice

The Theory Of Human Progression And Natural Probability Of A Reign Of Justice

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Patrick Edward Dove
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Cultural studies and cultural value

Cultural studies and cultural value

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John Frow
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The Spivak reader

The Spivak reader

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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In other worlds

In other worlds

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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
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We want some too

We want some too

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Hal Niedzviecki
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Pain, sex, and time

Pain, sex, and time

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Gerald Heard
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Glass, paper, beans

Glass, paper, beans

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Leah Hager Cohen
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Culture

Culture

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Adam Kuper
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The idea of a critical theory

The idea of a critical theory

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Raymond Geuss
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Max Weber

Max Weber

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Frank Parkin
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World prehistory

World prehistory

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Brian Fagan
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Africa counts

Africa counts

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Claudia Zaslavsky
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Aboriginal American Harpoons

Aboriginal American Harpoons

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Otis Tufton Mason
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Century of war

Century of war

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Gabriel Kolko
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Flesh and Blood

Flesh and Blood

x Author:
Reay Tannahill
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One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution

One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution

One Nation, Two Cultures: A Searching Examination of American Society in the Aftermath of Our Cultural Revolution is a book by Gertrude Himmelfarb.
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Gertrude Himmelfarb
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1999
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Essays in socio-economics

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Amitai Etzioni
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Moral Dimension

Moral Dimension

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Amitai Etzioni
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The Giddens reader

The Giddens reader

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Anthony Giddens
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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory

Capitalism and Modern Social Theory

x Author:
Anthony Giddens
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New rules of sociological method

New rules of sociological method

x Author:
Anthony Giddens
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Introduction to sociology

Introduction to sociology

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Anthony Giddens
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The constitution of society

The constitution of society

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Anthony Giddens
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Durkheim

Durkheim

x Author:
Anthony Giddens
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Politics, sociology and social theory

Politics, sociology and social theory

x Author:
Anthony Giddens
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Central problems in social theory

Central problems in social theory

x Author:
Anthony Giddens
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In defence of sociology

In defence of sociology

x Author:
Anthony Giddens
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The mountain of names

The mountain of names

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Alex Shoumatoff
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National Life From The Standpoint Of Science

National Life From The Standpoint Of Science

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Karl Pearson
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Modern social theory

Modern social theory

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Ian Craib
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Classical social theory

Classical social theory

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Ian Craib
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The things of the world

The things of the world

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Alfred Aho
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Bringing it all back home

Bringing it all back home

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Lawrence Grossberg
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Max Weber

Max Weber

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Reinhard Bendix
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Material World

Material World

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Peter Menzel
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Essentials of Sociology

Essentials of Sociology

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James M. Henslin
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Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity

Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity

Men to Boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity is a book by Gary Cross.
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Gary Cross
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Aug 2008
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Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture

Starbucked: A Double Tall Tale of Caffeine, Commerce, and Culture is a book by Taylor Clark.
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Taylor Clark
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Nov 2007
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Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture

Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture

Human-Built World: How to Think about Technology and Culture is a book by Thomas P. Hughes.
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Thomas P. Hughes
x Date of first publication:
Jul 2004
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