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2 kwi 2021 · Proponents of the ethical turn have drawn attention to how evaluation makes specifically ethical considerations pervasive in social and personal life (e.g. Laidlaw Citation 2014; Lambek Citation 2015; Keane Citation 2017).
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...
Only by understanding the nature of social narrative can we see how practical meanings continue to be structured by the search for salvation. How to be saved—how to jump to the present from the past and into the future—is still of urgent social and existential concern.
Based on: The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology, by Alexander Jeffrey C. Oxford, UK; New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 296 pp. $29.95 cloth. ISBN: 0-195-16084-3.
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.
10 mar 2021 · This afterword to the Qualifying Sociality through Values special issue reflects on the challenge, aptly considered by each contributor, to revamp and rejuvenate the sociality concept in light of the ethical turn. It poses three questions.
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.
