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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.
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.
(or ethnology), social anthropology, linguistic anthropology, and psychological anthropology are the fields that examine the social and cultural creations of human groups.
This course examines how a variety of cultural traditions propose answers to the question of how to live a meaningful life. It considers the meaning of life, not as a philosophical abstraction, but as a question that individuals grapple with in their daily lives, facing difficult decisions between meeting and defying ….
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
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 ...
'Notes', The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (New York, 2003; online edn, Oxford Academic, 24 May 2012), https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195160840.002.0024, accessed 26 July 2023.
