Dit boek is speciaal gericht op academici. Het geeft u handreikingen om uw schrijfstijl te verbeteren. Daarbij is er speciale aandacht voor zakelijke correspondentie.  Meer

Ads, Fads, and Consumer Culture—now in its fifth edition—draws on both academic and applied perspectives to offer a lively critique of contemporary advertising and its effects on American society.  Meer

A sociology textbook/mystery novel, that allows students to join Sherlock Holmes and Watson as they discover a fresh area ripe for acrimony and intrigue: social theory.  Meer

A sociology textbook/mystery novel, that allows students to join Sherlock Holmes and Watson as they discover a new area ripe for acrimony and intrigue: social theory.  Meer

Ettore Gnocchi, the famed postmodern theorist, has been murdered at his own dinner party. To find out who killed Gnocchi, the detective Solomon Hunter must first explore postmodernism itself.  Meer

What makes the 'self'? How is it created, defined, and transformed? Arthur Asa Berger's fascinating, educational whodunit novel unravels the mysteries of cultural studies theory, and more specifically, the complexities of postmodernism and identity.  Meer

From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which now approach film in terms of their visual excitement.  Meer

Looks into why people travel, examining travel and tourism as a cultural phenomenon through social, cultural, psychological, and economic forces. This book explores the role of travel in contemporary lives, from university travel-abroad programs to package tours and family vacations.  Meer

Presents concepts written by leading communication and cultural theorists, such as Saussure, LZvi-Strauss, de Certeau, McLuhan, Postman, and many others.  Meer

Presents concepts written by communication and cultural theorists, such as Saussure, LZvi-Strauss, de Certeau, McLuhan, Postman, and many others. This guide, in fifty short segements, covers a range of important ideas from psychoanalysis and semiology to humor, otherness, and nonverbal communication, for anyone interested in how we communicate.  Meer

Where did you see it that perfect quotation from Foucault or Kristeva to use in your upcoming keynote address? Stop the search and pick up Arthur Berger‘s handy book of over 300 concise quotations from the vast literature in cultural theory.  Meer

Is television a cultural wasteland, or a medium that has brought people more great art, music, dance, and drama than any previous media? How do we study and interpret television?  Meer

From their inception, video games quickly became a major new arena of popular entertainment. Beginning with very primitive games, they quickly evolved into interactive animated works, many of which now approach film in terms of their visual excitement.  Meer

This book offers a semiotically informed ethnographic study of contemporary culture in Rajasthan and in India generally. It adapts the methodology of analyzing cultures found in Roland Barthes' semiotic portrait of Japanese culture, Empire of Signs, but adds an analysis of lifestyles as explicated in the work of social anthropologist Mary Douglas, political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, and a number of other social scientists.  Meer

This book offers a semiotically informed ethnographic study of contemporary culture in Rajasthan and in India generally. It adapts the methodology of analyzing cultures found in Roland Barthes' semiotic portrait of Japanese culture, Empire of Signs, but adds an analysis of lifestyles as explicated in the work of social anthropologist Mary Douglas, political scientist Aaron Wildavsky, and a number of other social scientists.  Meer

In Blind Men and Elephants, Arthur Asa Berger uses case histories to show how scholars from different disciplines and scholarly domains have tried to describe and understand humor.  Meer

Just as a distinctive literary voice or style is marked by the ease with which it can be parodied, so too can specific aspects of humor be unique. Playwrights, television writers, novelists, cartoonists, and film scriptwriters use many special technical devices to create humor.  Meer

The average person in America watches four hours of television per day and spends the equivalent of nine years of his or her life in front of the television set.  Meer

To be civilized involves, among other things, making, using, and buying objects. Although speculation on the significance of objects often tends to be casual, there are professionals--anthropologists, historians, semioticians, Marxists, sociologists, and psychologists--who analyze material culture in a systematic way and attempt to elicit from it reliable information about people, societies, and cultures.  Meer

Where did you see it—that perfect quotation from Foucault or Kristeva to use in your upcoming keynote address? Stop the search and pick up Arthur Berger’s handy book of over 300 concise quotations from the vast literature in cultural theory.  Meer