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Preface

Part I:Theory Of Culture

Chapter 1:Culture: Coherent or Incoherent

Chapter 2:The Cultic Roots of Culture

Chapter 3:The Order-maintaining and Order-transforming Dimensions of Culture

Chapter 4:The Concept of Culture and Its Place within a Theory of Social Action:A Critique of Talcott Parsons's Theory of Culture

Chapter 5:Representative Culture and Cultural Representation

Chapter 6:Infrastructure and Superstructure:Revisions in Marxist Sociology of Culture

Part II:Culture, Collectiv purpose, And Polity

Chapter 7:Collective Purpose and Culture:Findings and Implications from Some Studies of Societies

Chapter 8:Social Norms in the Institutional Culture of the German Federal Parliament

Part III:Culture, Inequality, And Life-Style

Chapter 9:The Production and Reproductionof Inequality:A Theoretical Cultural Analysis

Chapter 10:Cultural Production, Consumption, and the Development of the Cultural Sphere

Part IV:Culture, Technology, And Work

Chapter 11:The Promise of a Cultural Sociology:Technological Discourse and the Sacred and Profane Information Machine

Chapter 12:Culture and the Locus of Work in Contemporary Western Germany:A Weberian Configurational Analysis

Chapter 13:Culture and Crisis:Making Sense of the Crisis of the Work Society

Notes