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Book SynopsisShowcases 142 signed entries - from art, commodity, and fundamentalism to youth, utopia, the virtual, and the West - that capture the practices, institutions, and debates of contemporary society. This book builds on Raymond Williams' classic Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society, by reflecting the transformation in culture and society.
Trade Review"We think in words. A careful discussion of the words we use helps us to think more clearly about modern western society. All academic libraries catering for the humanities or social sciences should consider requiring a reference copy, as should those public libraries which still feel their mission is to assist their readers in thinking clearly, rather than just to provide them with entertainment."
Martin Guha, King's College LondonTable of ContentsAcknowledgements
Abbreviations.
Introduction
A.
Aesthetics.
Alternative.
Art.
Audience
B.
Behaviour.
Biology.
Body.
Bureaucracy
C.
Canon.
Capitalism.
Celebrity.
Citizenship.
City.
Civilization.
Class.
Colonialism.
Commodity.
Communication.
Community.
Conservatism.
Consumption.
Copy.
Country.
Culture
D.
Deconstruction.
Democracy.
Desire.
Development.
Diaspora Difference.
Disability.
Discipline.
Discourse
E.
Economy.
Education.
Elite.
Emotion.
Empirical.
Environment/ecology.
Equality.
Ethnicity.
Everyday.
Evolution.
Experience
F.
Family.
Fashion.
Feminism.
Fetish.
Freedom.
Fundamentalism
G.
Gay and Lesbian.
Gender.
Generation.
Gene/genetic.
Globalization.
Government
H.
Heritage.
History.
Holocaust.
Home.
Human.
Human Rights
I.
Ideology.
Identity.
Image.
Indigenous.
Individual.
Industry.
Information.
Intellectual
J.
Justice
K.
Knowledge.
L.
Liberalism
M.
Management.
Marginal.
Market.
Mass.
Materialism.
Media.
Memory.
Mobility.
Modern.
Movements.
Multiculturalism
N.
Narrative.
Nation.
Nature.
Network.
Normal
O.
Objectivity.
Orientalism.
Other
P.
Participation.
Person.
Place.
Policy.
Political correctness.
Popular.
Pornography.
Postcolonialism.
Postmodernism.
Poverty.
Power.
Pragmatism.
Private.
Public
Q.
Queer
R.
Race.
Radical.
Reason.
Reform/revolution.
Relativism.
Representation.
Resistance.
Risk
S.
Science.
Self.
Sexuality.
Sign.
Socialism.
Society.
Sovereignty.
Space.
Spectacle.
State
T.
Taste.
Technology.
Text.
Theory.
Therapy.
Time.
Tolerance.
Tourism
U.
Unconscious.
Utopia
V.
Value.
Virtual
W.
Welfare.
West, the.
Work.
Writing
Y.
Youth.
Notes on editors and contributors.
References
