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The contemporary cultural setting, which blends mediated with politically inscribed meanings, needs to be understood as a new public sphere. Historically, the modern European nation-state was constructed around an ideal of free expression and the participation of citizens in government. This free expression took place in the public
Our models address: (1) the spread, via imitation, of modern institutions around the world (memetic replication); (2) the construal, by socio-cultural forces and by state organizations, of the modern citizen-subject (social subjectification); (3) the continual search for new meanings to replace traditional religious meaning-systems (compensatory...
With reference to various cultural texts and social contexts, we study examples of cultural production from history and politics to lived experiences of the everyday, from photography and art to cinema and museum, from popular culture to lifestyle etc.
CULTURAL THEORY. SAGE Benchmarks in Culture and Society is a new series of major works that present 4-volume collections of key classic and contemporary articles on the substantive interdisciplinary topics at the heart of the social sciences.
Historical and contemporary research within the areas of philosophy of science, general methodology, sociology, socio-cultural anthropology, cultural studies, communication studies etc. is greatly
French and English social theorists understood the history of society as a progressive development from simple to more complex levels of organization and functioning.
3 gru 2020 · Contemporary cultural sociology specifies the concept of culture by developing three core, irreducible, but compatible, theoretical elements: action, discourse, and cultural production. In doing so, the field has been influenced by a range of broader trends, including pragmatism, cognitive science, semiotics, hermeneutics, organizational theory
