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Anthony Giddens in chapter 1 of his work Modernity and Self-Identity gives a holistic approach to the concept of "modernity". Such an approach is made possible through his revision of modernity with respect to the pre-modern social life.
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.
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.
18 wrz 2003 · 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...
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...
Introduction The meanings of (social) life: On the Origins of a Cultural Sociology Notes 1 The Strong Program In Cultural Sociology: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics (with Philip Smith)
27 sty 2018 · In this chapter, we present the major anthropological currents that directly or indirectly made use of the notion of society in their theoretical reflections and analyses of empirical data.