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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 ...
Introduction: The Meanings of (Social) Life: On the Origins of a Cultural Sociology 3 1 The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Elements of a Structural 2 On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The “Holocaust” from 8 Modern, Anti, Post, and Neo: How Intellectuals Explain Hermeneutics (with Philip Smith) 11
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume, which is about social life and cultural sociology.
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.
to do history from the inside out as well as from the bottom up, anthropology offered the necessary dimension of culture, the systems of meaning that people invest in their social forms. Anthropologists' interest in history, although not entirely new, has become more intense and of a different kind. The past, once viewed as a more or less
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 Holocaust, it shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions.
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...
