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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.
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One of the great advantages of this new theoretical concept...
- With Philip Smith
The contrast here is to the “thin description” that...
- Watergate as Democratic Ritual
In June 1972, employees of the Republican party made an...
- A Cultural Sociology of Evil
Thus, in social scientific formulations of culture, a...
- Preface
During this same period of time, I developed a close network...
- Acknowledgments
Introduction The meanings of (social) life: On the Origins...
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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.
This volume presents a new approach for understanding how culture works in contemporary societies and shows how some unseen cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions. Keywords: social life, cultural sociology, dialectics, cultural thought, cultural logics, cultural pragmatics, contemporary societies, cultural structures.
27 sie 2020 · While the main historical sources for the meanings of ‘culture’ are literary studies and anthropology, this term has become widely used within sociology, and is also the basis for the field of cultural studies. This chapter outlines four main senses that...
'Index', The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (New York, 2003; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 May 2012), https://doi.org/, accessed 5 Mar. 2024.
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...
In The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical...
