An Essay on Culture: Symbolic Structure and Social Structure

The result of thirty—five years of thought and research on culture by one of the best and most literate writers in sociology, this wide—ranging review of the meaning and study of culture is Bennett Berger at his best. Drawing on his unsurpassed knowledge of the scholarly literature and on his wealth of personal experience, Berger reviews and synthesizes recent work in cultural sociology from a materialist perspective. An Essay on Culture culminates in a call for an empirical research progra...