The cultural turn

From Geography

The cultural turn is the turn towards culture in social sciences in the late twentieth century. Post-modernism and Post-structuralism are tendencies/movements which has evolved from the cultural turn. The essence of the cultural turn was to turn culture in to the subject of debate. Whereby the emphasis on meaning and no less on the epistemology. Culture in this context means the social process in which people make their identities, define the values and beliefs they have and make sense of their own world.

The cultural turn builds further on the critisism of the Linguistic turn. 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
• Clifford Geertz

References

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

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