Cultures and Societies in a Changing World

by Wendy Griswold

Cultures and Societies in a Changing World provides students with the basic skills necessary to understand the importance of culture and interpret the world in cultural terms. Griswold encourages students to explore the concept of culture and the nature of its relationship to the social world; understand seemingly structural issues like poverty or ethnicity by applying cultural analysis to these issues; broaden their cultural and social horizons so that they may effectively operate in the global economy and international culture of the twenty-first century. The metaphor of a diamond is used to focus on the links between culture and society, and how they can be applied to a study of social problems, to business practice in the global marketplace, and to the media.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Cultural, Academic

200 pages, Paperback

First published February 14, 1994

About the author

Wendy Griswold is joint Professor of Sociology and English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. She is the author of Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theatre, 1576-1980 and Cultures and Societies in a Changing World as well as coeditor of Literature and Social Practice and Places within, places beyond: the question of Norwegian regionalism in literature.

Reviews

[lana banana]

non voglio più vedere questo libro in vita mia

[Iftekhar Mallick · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it during my Undergraduate Psychology classes. It gave me some good insights to prepare my course project paper, "What is Beauty: I’ll Eat You Orange Lips".

[Xavier University Library · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you are interested in a theoretical analysis of culture, from a sociological perspective, this book is for you. This is not light reading, but highly fascinating, and I found myself thinking about how these theories can be applied in "practice" today in our (post)modern world. I will be using this text to teach a course in the fall, and I am excited at the possibilities of bringing in additional readings to bring this text "to life."

[Adeline · Rating 4 out of 5]

if i'm going to be reading these books for class i might as well start logging them

[RJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent sociology primer on culture and meanings.

[Angel]

Well for a textbook I guess it could have been worse.

[Staszek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read the third edition, actually.