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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.
8 mar 2013 · The Chemistry of Social Life. Michael Macy Authors Info & Affiliations. Science. 8 Mar 2013. Vol 339, Issue 6124. pp. 1150 - 1151. DOI: 10.1126/science.1232679. How did life emerge from lifeless chemicals? A possible answer is a chemical reaction that catalyzes its own reproduction (1).
According to Radcliffe-Brown (1958: 167), “the empirical reality with which social anthropology has to deal, by description, by analysis and in comparative studies is the process of social life of a certain limited region during a certain period of time”.
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.
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.
9 paź 2003 · Its discourse defines the nature of civil and uncivil motives and relationships, and its institutions, both communicative and regulative, crystallize these collective meanings in the...
16 cze 2005 · Contrary to theories that depict the individual's relation to society as one of victimization, endless malleability, or just a square peg in a round hole, he proposes that the individual human being is designed by nature to be part of society.
