Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-modernism

Jim Collins

Psychology Press, 1989 - Art - 157 pages

Jim Collins argues that postmodernism and popular culture have together undermined the master system of "culture." By looking at a wide range of texts and forms he investigates what happens to the notion of culture once different discourses begin to envision that culture in conflicting ways, constructing often contradictory visions of it simultaneously.

About the author

Jim Collins holds B.S. and M.B.A. degrees from Stanford University. A visiting professor of business administration at Stanford Graduate School of Business, he is a management consultant. He has written several articles for the Harvard Business Review, Inc., Fortune magazine, California Management Review and Stanford Magazine. He is the co-author of Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies; Managing the Small to Mid-Sized Firm: Readings, Cases and Instructor's Manual; Beyond Entrepreneurship; and Great by Choice. He has also worked with Hewlett Packard and McKinsey & Co.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Uncommon Cultures: Popular Culture and Post-modernism; Language Education; Literature-cultural studies
• Author: Jim Collins
• Publisher: Psychology Press, 1989
• ISBN: 0415901375, 9780415901376
• Length: 157 pages
• Subjects: Art / Popular Culture; Literary Criticism / General; Literary Criticism / Semiotics & Theory; Philosophy / History & Surveys / Modern; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social; Social Science / Media Studies; Social Science / Popular Culture