Cultural theory

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Under cultural theory refers to the developing theoretical foundations of cultural studies research. Analogous to the other use of the term theory (e.g. in literary theory , film theory , etc.), the term refers to both the individual theoretical drafts and the entirety of these theories.

Each individual cultural theory is a theoretical draft to understand “ culture ” in general (as opposed to “society”, for example ) or the phenomena, mechanisms and basic structures of the culture of a particular community or ethnic group . Often, however, it is also a question of counter-drafts to theories of human nature and to theories of non-man-made, "uncultivated" nature .

Cultural theory is thus at the intersection of various scientific disciplines such as sociology , ethnology , anthropology , but also art theory , political science and history , provided that these aim at the fundamental characteristics of culture or cultures in their comprehensive sense and thus a fundamental understanding of the totality of human beings Strive for expressions of life in social interaction.

Michael Buchholz , for example, gave an impression of the various facets of the topic based on some of the relevant literature in 2013 in his series Kleiner Literaturrundflug published by the DGPT under the title The Thinking of Culture .

Important cultural theorists

literature

  • Arnold Groh: Theories of Culture. Routledge, London 2019, ISBN 978-1-138-66865-2
  • Christiane Ackermann u. Michael Egerding (Ed.): Literary and cultural theories in German medieval studies. A manual. De Gruyter, Berlin / Boston 2015.
  • Ansgar Nünning (Hrsg.): Metzler Lexikon literary and cultural theory. Approaches - people - basic concepts. 4th updated and expanded edition. Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2008, ISBN 978-3-476-02241-7
  • Martin Ludwig Hofmann et al. (Ed.): Culture Club. Classics of cultural theory. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt
    • Volume 1. 2004, ISBN 3-518-29268-4 (Freud, Simmel, Luhmann, Bourdieu, Butler, Latour)
    • Volume 2. 2006, ISBN 3-518-29398-2 (Max Weber, Siegfried Kracauer, Martin Heidegger, Helmuth Plessner, Margaret Mead, Hannah Arendt, Marshall McLuhan, Richard Hoggart, Vilém Flusser, Raymond Williams, Paul Feyerabend, Jean-François Lyotard, Ivan Illich, Clifford Geertz, Jacques Derrida and Stuart Hall)
  • Doris Bachmann-Medick : Cultural Turns. New orientations in cultural studies. 5. Edit again Rowohlt, Reinbek 2014. English translation and rev. ed .: Cultural Turns: New Orientations in the Study of Culture. Berlin / Boston, De Gruyter 2016.
  • Thomas Jung: History of modern cultural theory. Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1999
  • Rolf Löther: On the unity of natural theory and cultural theory. In: Zs. F. Wissenschaftsforschung 3 (1986) 3, pp. 59-67.
  • Wolfgang Müller-Funk : Cultural Theory. Introduction to key texts in cultural studies. 2nd revised and expanded edition. A. Francke Verlag (UTB for Science), Tübingen 2010, ISBN 978-3-8252-2828-6
  • Stephan Moebius & Dirk Quadflieg (eds.): Culture. Present theories. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2006, ISBN 3-531-14519-3
  • Johannes Heinrichs : Draft systemic cultural theory. Krems 1998
  • ders .: Culture - in the art of concepts. Steno, Munich 2007
  • Andreas Wimmer: Processual cultural theory. On the dynamics of negotiating meanings. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden 2005
  • Alfons Schnase: Evolutionary Epistemology and Biological Culture Theory. Konrad Lorenz under suspicion of ideology. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2005
  • Peter Dreschel: Suggestions for the construction of a “cultural theory” and what one could understand by a “cultural interpretation”. In: Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology. Special issue 26. 1984, pp. 44-84
  • WK Schulz: Knowledge-sociological aspects of the cultural theory Georg Simmels. In: Cologne journal for sociology and social psychology. 37, 1985, pp. 277-287
  • Geert and Gert-Jan Hofstede: Cultures and Organizations: Software of the Mind. New York: McGraw-Hill USA, 2004

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Michael B. Buchholz : The thinking of culture . Small literary tour. In: DGPT (Ed.): Psycho-News-Letter . No.  96 , 2013 ( dgpt.de [PDF; 995 kB ; accessed on October 25, 2018]).