TY - BOOK AU - Alexander,Jeffrey C. AU - Seidman,Steven TI - Culture and society: Contemporary debates SN - 0521350867 U1 - 306 20 PY - 1990/// CY - Cambridge [England], New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Culture N1 - Collection of thirty-one extracts from previously published material, 1942-1988; Includes bibliogr. references; The case for culture - Approaches to culture: functionalist, semiotic, dramaturgical, Weberian, Durkheimian, Marxian, poststructuralist - The place of religion : is modernity a secular or sacred order? - The debate over the "end of ideology" : can secular reason create cultural order? - Modernism or postmodernism : dissolution or reconstruction of moral order? ER -