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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. The class perspective is very important for the author and he puts special emphasis on those phenomena of culture which ...
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.
21 kwi 2022 · ‘On the Concept of Social Class’ concerns a key term of modern social theory, that of social class. The conceptual thinking that has emerged in this context typically describes social differentiation as stratification and stratification as social class.
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.
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 ...
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...
INTRODUCTION. Is "class" an appropriate concept for anthropological analysis? Toward the end of his life, Lloyd Fallers concluded that "social stratification" (which he took to include class) does not exist (31, p. 3), or at least the term is so loaded with cultural bias that it should be abandoned.
