Cultures and Societies in a Changing World

by Wendy Griswold

In today’s world, both cultures and societies are changing more quickly than ever before. The Third Edition of Cultures and Societies in a Changing World sheds light on the role culture plays in shaping our social world. A vital and personal aspect of individual identity, culture shapes a person’s norms, values, beliefs, and practices. This Third Edition introduces the sociology of culture and explores cultural phenomena including stories, beliefs, media, ideas, art, religious practices, fashions, and rituals from a global sociological perspective.

Genres: Nonfiction, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Cultural, Academic

224 pages, Paperback

First published February 14, 1994

About the author

Wendy Griswold is joint Professor of Sociology and English and Comparative Literature at Northwestern University. She is the author of Renaissance Revivals: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy in the London Theatre, 1576-1980 and Cultures and Societies in a Changing World as well as coeditor of Literature and Social Practice and Places within, places beyond: the question of Norwegian regionalism in literature.

Reviews

[lana banana]

non voglio più vedere questo libro in vita mia

[Iftekhar Mallick · Rating 4 out of 5]

I read it during my Undergraduate Psychology classes. It gave me some good insights to prepare my course project paper, "What is Beauty: I’ll Eat You Orange Lips".

[Xavier University Library · Rating 3 out of 5]

If you are interested in a theoretical analysis of culture, from a sociological perspective, this book is for you. This is not light reading, but highly fascinating, and I found myself thinking about how these theories can be applied in "practice" today in our (post)modern world. I will be using this text to teach a course in the fall, and I am excited at the possibilities of bringing in additional readings to bring this text "to life."

[Adeline · Rating 4 out of 5]

if i'm going to be reading these books for class i might as well start logging them

[Elizabeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.25 ⭐️

[RJ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent sociology primer on culture and meanings.

[Angel]

Well for a textbook I guess it could have been worse.

[Staszek · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read the third edition, actually.