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Only by understanding the nature of social narrative can we see how practical meanings continue to be structured by the search for salvation. How to be saved—how to jump to the present from the past and into the future—is still of urgent social and existential concern.
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 · Abstract. 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...
1 sty 2012 · In this article the author examines the process of the formation of hidden cultural meanings and their influence on the action of carrier groups and the practices of remembering.
He writes that if ‘a cultural sociology is concerned to explain social life as an expression of culture’, then ‘a sociology of culture, by contrast, is concerned to explain cultural life as an expression of the social’.
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.
1 paź 2002 · This article addresses the problem of the construction of context as a key analytical concept in the methodology of social and cultural anthropology. It takes a developmental view, showing how the problem has been re-defined over time.
