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It is a solidarity that recognises the individual’s freedom to live life as it is achieved and not ascribed. In spite of the inclusion of the title ‘Body’, the book is characterised by an understanding of human experience and social life as it is primarily cognitively conceived.
CONTENTS. Introduction: The Meanings of (Social) Life: On the Origins of a Cultural Sociology 3. The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics (with Philip Smith) 11. On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The “Holocaust” from War Crime to Trauma Drama 27.
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 · Abstract. This book presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. 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.
Though the term society and culture is used today as a scientific concept by most of the social sciences, its most comprehensive definition has been provided in anthropology. Humans are social beings. That is why we live together in societies. Day-to-day we interact with each other and develop social relationships. Every society has a culture ...
This introductory chapter discusses the theme of this volume, which is about social life and cultural sociology.
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)
