Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Politics & Social Sciences

Clammer, John

Social Sciences

Routledge

The question of ‘postmodernity’ that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledged capitalist-industrialist economy, poses such fundamental questions to social theory. Is Japan in fact ‘unique’ and as such is it a society which escapes the net of conventional sociological abstractions? The book questions how special Japanese society really is, the limitations of Western social theory in grasping the fullness of this dynamic and a complex Asian society, and inquires as to how Japan in turn may speak to social theory and deepen and broaden the principles on which social theory attempts to explore and categorize the social and cultural worlds.   

Difference and Modernity: Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society

Reference

The sociology of art is now an established sub-discipline of sociology. But little work has been done to explore the implications not of society on art, but of art on the nature and principles of sociology itself. Vision and Society explores the ways in which art (here mainly understood as visual art) structures in fundamental ways the constitution of society, the relations between societies and the ways in which society and culture should be theorized. Building initially on an unfulfilled project by the French sociologist of art Nathalie Heinich to derive a sociology from art, this book pushes this idea in unconventional directions. Rethinking the relationships between the study of art and the study of sociology and anthropology, this book explores how this rethinking might impact sociological theory in general, and certain aspects of it in particular – especially the study of social movements, social change, the urban, the constitution of space and the ways in which human social relationships are mediated and expressed.

Arts & Photography

Difference and Modernity

Japan in Singapore: Cultural Occurrences and Cultural Flows

The Japanese impact on Southeast Asia has been profound, not only in terms of economic presence, but equally in terms of an increasingly visible cultural presence. Food, fashion, TV, film, religion, sport, popular music, ideas about management and social relationships and even local literatures have been profoundly impacted by the flows of cultural influences from Japan. This volume examines these flows and their consequences in Singapore, a Southeast Asian society in which the Japanese presence is so visible as to make it a regional paradigm for a study of cultural influence in the region.

Japan in Singapore

Ben-Ari, Eyal

Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption

This volume demonstrates a fresh approach to urban studies as well as a new way of looking at contemporary Japan which links economy and society in an innovative way.

Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series)

History

Asia

Wiley/Blackwell

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &amp; Francis, an informa company.

Difference & Modernity: Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society (Japanese Studies)

Contending that culture lies at the root of our current planetary and civilizational crisis, this book uniquely explores the nature of the specifically cultural dimensions of that crisis and how culture relates to the areas of politics, policy, economics, ecology and the whole discourse of sustainability. It debates how profoundly our world is shaped by capitalist culture, emphasizing the import of political culture and policy, social justice, leadership and community in the shaping of a new cultural sustainability. It also reintroduces questions of religion, art, citizenship and comparative culture into the sustainability debate and suggests ways in which the central issue of consumer culture can be rethought and others in which socially satisfactory transitions to a sustainable future might be achieved. Addressing the specific role of culture in our crisis and of how to build cultural resources for transition, this cutting edge text provides the reader with an introduction to the literature on culture and sustainability, and both practical and theoretical tools for creating and advancing a humane and ecologically responsible future.

Cultures of Transition and Sustainability: Culture after Capitalism

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Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Difference and Modernity: Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society

Vision and Society: Towards a Sociology and Anthropology from Art (Routledge Advances in Sociology)

Difference and Modernity

Japan in Singapore

Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption (IJURR Studies in Urban and Social Change Book Series)

Contemporary Urban Japan: A Sociology of Consumption

Japan in Singapore: Cultural Occurrences and Cultural Flows

Difference & Modernity: Social Theory and Contemporary Japanese Society (Japanese Studies)

Cultures of Transition and Sustainability: Culture after Capitalism