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Perhaps the most sensible way to understand models of personhood, then, is to frame them as ideological forces and expectations that influence but do not strictly determine social life and lived experience (Fortes [1973] 1987, 251; McIntosh 2009, 18).
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.
5 wrz 2018 · Article PDF Available. Social and Cultural Anthropology. September 2018. DOI: 10.1002/9781118924396.wbiea2193. Authors: Joao Pina-Cabral. University of Lisbon. Citations (3) References (51)...
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.
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.
16 cze 2005 · What makes us human? Why do people think, feel, and act as they do? What is the essence of human nature? What is the basic relationship between the individual and society? These questions have fascinated people for centuries.
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.
