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9 paź 2003 · Download Citation | The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology | This book presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and...
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.
on observations of life in contemporary Western society. Lévi-Strauss’s anthropology emphasizes the close relationship between field work and theory, between the description of social phenomena and structural analysis, as two phases of the same proc ess. The ethnographic study of societies must have a concrete,
that the basis of order in social life is the presence of symbols that demarcate boundaries. One of Douglas’s main concerns is how communities differentiate themselves from one another and how they are internally differentiated. She distinguishes groups on the basis of their degree of social control and of the rigidity of their grid
In its broadest sense, Social Anthropology is the study of what it means to be human. Social Anthropologists seek to describe and understand the huge variation in forms of human existence and the ways in which these forms change over time. Social anthropology is critical, comparative and reflexive. It is a foundation discipline within the ...
Presenting a ground-breaking revitalisation of contemporary social theory, this book revisits the rise of the modern world to reopen the dialogue between anthropology and sociology.
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.
