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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’.
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 · 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 ...
1 gru 2022 · Aurora Donzelli's aim is to connect a micro-analysis of talk (speech events) with social settings and cultural meanings to achieve a more thorough understanding of the way both are dialectically constituted and change.
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.
The secret to the compulsive power of social structures is that they have an inside. They are not only external to actors but internal to them. They are meaningful. These meanings are structured and socially produced, even if they are invisible. We must learn how to make them visible.
1 mar 2023 · Using a metaphor from physics, Strathern describes her analysis of the concept of relations as the exploration of the forces of a magnet hidden in sociological language. Since these forces are taken as a basic reality of human life, they are at the core of the most basic assumptions of anthropological theories.
