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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 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.
Containing contributions from American and British social anthropologists and historians, the volume bridges the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics, and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural basis of economic life and the sociology of culture.
2 mar 2020 · Thought as an area of study in anthropology involves exploration of people’s beliefs and inner thinking as it is “expressed in social life, for example, when people say what they think or express it through their actions, in rituals and other public performances.” (p. 136).
1 dzień temu · Cultural anthropology, also known as social anthropology, is the study of the learned behavior of groups of people in specific environments. Cultural anthropologists base their work in ethnography, a research method that uses field work and participant-observation to study individual cultures and customs.
16 cze 2005 · What do people want? How do people think? How do emotions operate? How do people behave? And how do they interact with each other? The answers are often surprising, and along the way, the author explains how human desire, thought, feeling, and action are connected.
He writes that if ‘a cultural sociology is concerned to explain social life as an expression of culture’, then ‘a sociology of culture, by contrast, is concerned to explain cultural life as an expression of the social’.
