Culture and Everyday Life David Inglis • How should we understand what we do in everyday life? • In what ways are our everyday habits and routines shaped by culture? • What is 'culture' and how does it impact on everything we think and do? If we want to understand how people in different parts of the globe think, feel, value, act and express themselves, we have to examine the cultures that they create and are in turn created by. This lively and accessible new book reconsiders the different views as to what culture is, how it operates and how it relates to other aspects of the human (and non-human) world. Key areas covered include: * Culture and nature * High culture versus popular culture * Modern and post-modern culture * Globalization and culture The book discusses many of the major thinkers on culture, from Mathew Arnold to Bakhtin and Bourdieu. Theoretical arguments are illustrated with everyday examples from sport, art and the mass media, to car culture and global cuisine, making this a highly informative guide to the sociology of culture that will be indispensable reading for students of sociology and cultural studies. David Inglis is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Aberdeen. He writes in the areas of sociology of culture and social theory. He has authored numerous books and articles in these areas, including Confronting Culture: Sociological Vistas (Polity, 2003 with John Hughson), and he is editor of The Sociology of Art (Palgrave, 2005).