TY - BOOK AU - Alexander,Jeffrey C AU - Seidman,Steven TI - Culture and society : contemporary debates SN - 9780521359399 AV - HM101 .C8955 1990 PY - 1990/// CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Culture N1 - Collection of thirty-one extracts from previously published material, 1942-1988; Includes bibliographical 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 -