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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.
THE MEANINGS OF (SOCIAL) LIFE On the Origins of a Cultural Sociology M odern men and women go about their lives without really knowing why. Why do we work for such a long time every day? Why do we finish one war only to fight another? Why are we so obsessed with technology? Why do we live in an age of scandal?
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 concrete actions and institutions.
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/9780195160840.002.0005, accessed 11 Sept. 2022.
With Roger Friedland, Nicholas Entrikin, Steven Seidman, Kenneth Thompson, Bernhard Giesen, and Ron Eyerman I have shared not only the deepest friendship but an ongoing conversation about the meanings of social life and the social life of meanings.
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...
