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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.
The key difference between social and cultural animals is that only the latter act on the basis of abstract meanings, such as rules and plans. Animals who do not have language cannot make use of abstract meanings, because they cannot process them.
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.
16 cze 2005 · This book not only summarizes what we know about people; it also offers a coherent, easy-to-understand though radical, explanation. Turning conventional wisdom on its head, the author argues that culture shaped human evolution.
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 · 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 ...
28 lut 2017 · The article reviews discussions on how personhood relates to various societies in various times, how it changes, and how it is influenced by power relations. Relationships between personhood and both the mind and the body, as well as the connections between personhood and humanness, are also explored.
