I. Culture as an important component of politics
a. Difficult to isolate and study
II. Why culture?
a. The promise and peril of the 20th century
b. The disappointment of the social sciences
c. The influence of daily practice
III. Culture as a shifting terrain
a. Pluralist causality
b. Cultural study and a ‘post-‘ world
IV. Civil Society
a. Liberal conception
b. Marxist conception
c. New (liberal?) vision of civil society