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The article analyses the area of cultural activities outside the institutional circulation of culture, or within that framework but focusing on social values of art. 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 ...
CONTENTS. Introduction: The Meanings of (Social) Life: On the Origins of a Cultural Sociology 3. The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics (with Philip Smith) 11. On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The “Holocaust” from War Crime to Trauma Drama 27.
2 kwi 2021 · A central reason for their appeal is their potential to promote anthropology’s distinctive pursuit of examining social life in concrete ethnographic contexts by offering more apposite tools for this purpose than the extensively discredited concepts of ‘society’ and ‘culture’.
27 sty 2018 · PDF | In this chapter, we present the major anthropological currents that directly or indirectly made use of the notion of society in their theoretical... | Find, read and cite all the...
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 ...
The volume under review purports to offer two things: first, a critical overview of what anthropologists have been carrying out for over sixty years in and on organisations; and second, an exploration of the contribution that this work has made to social theory at large.
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.
