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This book is different. Its purpose is to lay out a research program for a cultural sociology and to show how this program can be concretely applied to some of the principal concerns of contemporary life. A great aporia marks the birth of sociology—a great, mysterious, and unexplained rupture.
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.
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.
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 ...
book Reviews and Review articles. While book reviews are unlikely to form part of your required course readings, you should consult them whenever you need help understanding or contextualizing an ethnogra-phy or monograph. Book reviews in anthropology journals succinctly ad-dress the scope and contribution of a specific work, allowing you to get a
25 lip 2008 · In this paper I explore ways in which anthropologists can and have approached life‐histories. I consider some of the theoretical background to this and discuss life‐writing, biography and autobiography.
