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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... become routinized in a fateful and permanent way. It is striking that the French founder of modern sociology, Emile Durkheim, suffered from a similar theoretical affliction. There is a great divide between Durkheim's early and middle ...
... become routinized in a fateful and permanent way. It is striking that the French founder of modern sociology, Emile Durkheim, suffered from a similar theoretical affliction. There is a great divide between Durkheim's early and middle ...
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... be entirely reflective and critical about. If we understand this, we can separate knowledge from power and not become only a servant to it. This page intentionally left blank THE STRONG PROGRAM IN CULTURAL The Meanings of (Social) Life 9.
... be entirely reflective and critical about. If we understand this, we can separate knowledge from power and not become only a servant to it. This page intentionally left blank THE STRONG PROGRAM IN CULTURAL The Meanings of (Social) Life 9.
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... become superstructures and ideologies driven . by these more “ real ” and tangible social forces . In this approach , culture be- comes defined as a “ soft , ” not really independent variable : it is more or less con- fined to ...
... become superstructures and ideologies driven . by these more “ real ” and tangible social forces . In this approach , culture be- comes defined as a “ soft , ” not really independent variable : it is more or less con- fined to ...
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... become possible to discover in what ways cul- ture intersects with other social forces, such as power and instrumental reason in the concrete social world. This brings us to the third characteristic of a strong program. Far from being ...
... become possible to discover in what ways cul- ture intersects with other social forces, such as power and instrumental reason in the concrete social world. This brings us to the third characteristic of a strong program. Far from being ...
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... become particularly powerful in the United States, where these kinds of proper- ties assimilate best to professional norms within sociology. The great strength of this approach is that it offers explicit causal links between culture and ...
... become particularly powerful in the United States, where these kinds of proper- ties assimilate best to professional norms within sociology. The great strength of this approach is that it offers explicit causal links between culture and ...
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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The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology Jeffrey C. Alexander Vista previa restringida - 2003 |
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