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16 cze 2005 · Abstract. 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.
This article elaborates a theoretical approach to “social context” that draws on the social sciences of anthropology and sociology to understand the multiple dimensions of social and cultural phenomena in daily life as they relate to the health behavior of underserved ii women.
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.
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.
2 kwi 2021 · ABSTRACT. This introduction to the special issue Qualifying Sociality through Values interrogates the relationship between sociality and values, two concepts that have gained increasing traction in anthropology, but which have not previously been jointly considered.
psychological basis for approaching social stimulus situations on a meaning-ful level, in terms of their patterning and properties studied by the social sciences. However, certain distinctions survive in the claims of some sociologists and some cultural anthropologists which impede the social psychologist's
Based on: The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology, by Alexander Jeffrey C. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 296 pp. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 0-195-16084-3.
