The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural SociologyOxford University Press, 18 sept 2003 - 312 páginas 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 empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, he shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions. Only when these deep patterns of meaning are revealed, Alexander argues, can we understand the stubborn staying power of violence and degradation, but also the steady persistence of hope. By understanding the darker structures that restrict our imagination, we can seek to transform them. By recognizing the culture structures that sustain hope, we can allow our idealistic imaginations to gain more traction in the world. A work that will transform the way that sociologists think about culture and the social world, this book confirms Jeffrey Alexander's reputation as one of the major social theorists of our day. |
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... 1. Sociology. 2. Prejudices. 3. Culture. 4. Violence. I. Title. HM585 .A5 2003 301—dc21 2002155273 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper To the members of the CULTURE CLUB Past, Present, and.
... 1. Sociology. 2. Prejudices. 3. Culture. 4. Violence. I. Title. HM585 .A5 2003 301—dc21 2002155273 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper To the members of the CULTURE CLUB Past, Present, and.
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... United States, where I now reside. During this same period of time, I developed a close network of personal relationships that also nourished the ideas presented here. With Roger Friedland, Nicholas Entrikin, Steven Seidman, Kenneth ...
... United States, where I now reside. During this same period of time, I developed a close network of personal relationships that also nourished the ideas presented here. With Roger Friedland, Nicholas Entrikin, Steven Seidman, Kenneth ...
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... United States and Europe is shrouded in the rhetoric of good and evil, of friends and enemies, of honor, conscience, loyalty, of God and country, of civilization and primeval chaos. These are not just ideas. They are feelings, massive ...
... United States and Europe is shrouded in the rhetoric of good and evil, of friends and enemies, of honor, conscience, loyalty, of God and country, of civilization and primeval chaos. These are not just ideas. They are feelings, massive ...
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... United States. Tens of billions of dollars were spent on this pursuit, which formed a backdrop to Soviet President Michael Gorbachev's suit to end the Cold War. While personally resistant to President Reagan's claims, sociologically I ...
... United States. Tens of billions of dollars were spent on this pursuit, which formed a backdrop to Soviet President Michael Gorbachev's suit to end the Cold War. While personally resistant to President Reagan's claims, sociologically I ...
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... United States, the tide began to turn unmistakably only in the mid-1980s. In continental Europe, it is possible to argue that culture never really went away. Despite this ongoing revival of interest, however, there is anything but ...
... United States, the tide began to turn unmistakably only in the mid-1980s. In continental Europe, it is possible to argue that culture never really went away. Despite this ongoing revival of interest, however, there is anything but ...
Índice
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The Holocaust from War Crime to Trauma Drama | 27 |
3 Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity | 85 |
4 A Cultural Sociology of Evil | 109 |
5 The Discourse of American Civil Society with Philip Smith | 121 |
6 Watergate as Democratic Ritual | 155 |
7 The Sacred and Profane Information Machine | 179 |
How Intellectuals Explain Our Time | 193 |
Notes | 229 |
References | 271 |
Index | 293 |
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