Collection of thirty-one extracts from previously published material , 1942-1988.

Includes bibliographical references.

The case for culture -- Approaches to culture: functionalist, semiot ic, dramaturgical, Weberian, Durkheimian, Marxian, poststructuralist -- The place of religion : is modernity a secular or sacred order? -- The debate over the "end of ideology" : can secular reason create cultural order? -- Modernism or postmodernism : dissolution or reconstruction o f moral order?