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By Robert Wuthnow,James Davison Hunter,Albert J. Bergesen,Edith Kurzweil

First released in 1984, Cultural Analysis is a scientific exam of the theories of tradition inside the writings of 4 modern social theorists: Peter L. Berger, Mary Douglas, Michel Foucault, and Jürgen Habermas.


This examine in their paintings clarifies their contributions to the research of tradition and indicates the converging assumptions that the authors think are laying the basis for a brand new method of the research of tradition. the point of interest is in particular on tradition, an idea that is still topic to ambiguities of remedy, and concentrates on questions about the definition and content material of tradition, its development, its relatives with social stipulations, and the way during which it can be altering. The books demonstrates how those writers have made strides in the direction of defining tradition as an aim component to social interplay which are subjected to severe investigation.

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