The cultural turn

From Geography

The cultural turn is the turn towards culture in social sciences. Post-modernism and Post-structuralism is a theory which has evolved from the cultural turn. The essence of the cultural turn was to turn culture in to the subject of debate. The difference between the cultural turn and The linguistic turn is that the linguistic turn is focused on Language and language as action. Where the cultural turn is focused on culture and society as a whole.

Prominent figures in the cultural turn

• Pierre Bourdieu
• Michel Foucault

References

• Bonnel, E. & Hunt, L. (1999) Beyond the cultural turn
• Unknown. Retrieved 2012 October 3 from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_turn

Contributors

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