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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.
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One of the great advantages of this new theoretical concept...
- With Philip Smith
The contrast here is to the “thin description” that...
- Watergate as Democratic Ritual
During the summer of 1972 one can trace a complex symbolic...
- A Cultural Sociology of Evil
Thus, in social scientific formulations of culture, a...
- Preface
During this same period of time, I developed a close network...
- Acknowledgments
Introduction The meanings of (social) life: On the Origins...
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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.
It is a solidarity that recognises the individual’s freedom to live life as it is achieved and not ascribed. In spite of the inclusion of the title ‘Body’, the book is characterised by an understanding of human experience and social life as it is primarily cognitively conceived.
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.
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.
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...
27 lut 2024 · In his 1982 book Social Anthropology, Leach raised his doubts about Fei’s studies: “Although Fei titled his book Peasant Life in China, he gave no evidence to show that the social system he described was typical for the whole country.” Fei summarized Leach’s arguments into two questions: First, is it appropriate for anthropologists to ...
