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2 kwi 2021 · In this view, human affairs are fundamentally shaped by social life and conditions; what matters most for their outcome is people’s relationships, social encounters, and the influence of others.
The secret to the compulsive power of social structures is that they have an inside. They are not only external to actors but internal to them. They are meaningful. These meanings are structured and socially produced, even if they are invisible. We must learn how to make them visible.
Culture is understood here in its wide anthropological and sociological sense; by the subjects of culture, the author means individual producers, informal groups and social movements, NGOs, subjects of social economics, etc.
9 paź 2003 · This book presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the...
16 cze 2005 · Abstract. What makes us human? Why do people think, feel, and act as they do? What is the essence of human nature? What is the basic relationship between the individual and society? These questions have fascinated people for centuries.
17 maj 2021 · In anthropologically informed discussions of culture, the etic is the ‘hardware’ level of the bare substance of the cultural signals, and the emic is the symbolic or social function (meaning) of those signals. Two important principles are at work here.
9 paź 2003 · Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, it shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions.
