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In the history of the social sciences there has always been a sociology of cul-ture. Whether it had been called the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of art, the sociology of religion, or the sociology of ideology, many sociologists paid respect to the significant effects of collective meanings.
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.
27 sty 2018 · Boas and his followers built upon the principle that culture, as the expression of society, is the outcome of historical interchanges between different social groups.
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.
‘social anthropology’ is the more usual designation. In continental Europe, the word ‘anthropology’ often still tends to carry the meaning ‘physical anthropology’, though there too ‘social anthropology’ is now rapidly gaining ground as a synonym for ‘ethnology’. Indeed, the main
9 paź 2003 · Only when these deep patterns of meaning are revealed, it argues, can we understand the stubborn staying power of violence and degradation, but also the steady persistence of hope. By understanding the darker structures that restrict our imagination, we can seek to transform them.
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. Exposing our everyday myths and...
