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CONTENTS. Introduction: The Meanings of (Social) Life: On the Origins of a Cultural Sociology 3. The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics (with Philip Smith) 11. On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The “Holocaust” from War Crime to Trauma Drama 27.
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 · 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.
Read online or download for free from Z-Library the Book: The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology, Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780195160840, Year: 2003, Language: English, Format: PDF, Filesize: 1.54 MB
During recent decades, Jeffrey C. Alexander has been occupied with studying social life from a cultural perspective, developing a cultural sociology concerned with the shaping or constitutive impact of cultural formations and discursive practices on other aspects of social life.
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology. Jeffrey C. Alexander. Oxford University Press, Sep 18, 2003 - Social Science - 312 pages. In The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey...
Jeffrey Alexander, one of the proponents of the strong programme in cultural sociology, develops an approach to the study of power which departs from two main conceptualizations: that is, power as determined by social structure and material resources, and power as knowledge in the Foucauldian sense.
