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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... created meanings; it aimed to expose how the ideal structures of culture are formed by other structures—of a more material, less ephemeral kind. By the mid-1980s, an increasing if still small number of social scientists had come to ...
... created meanings; it aimed to expose how the ideal structures of culture are formed by other structures—of a more material, less ephemeral kind. By the mid-1980s, an increasing if still small number of social scientists had come to ...
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... creation of an ever-shifting narrative frame. It is with this in mind that in chapter 8 I offer a cultural-sociological approach to the venerable topic of intellectual ideology. Comparing intellectuals to priests and prophets, I bracket ...
... creation of an ever-shifting narrative frame. It is with this in mind that in chapter 8 I offer a cultural-sociological approach to the venerable topic of intellectual ideology. Comparing intellectuals to priests and prophets, I bracket ...
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... creation of modernity, not to the project of its ongoing institutionalization. We must go beyond this disconnect, which has merely been replicated by more contemporary theories of social life. If we are to understand how the insights of ...
... creation of modernity, not to the project of its ongoing institutionalization. We must go beyond this disconnect, which has merely been replicated by more contemporary theories of social life. If we are to understand how the insights of ...
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... creating, or mapping out, the culture structures (Rambo & Chan, 1990) that form one dimension of social life. It is the ... created the analytically autonomous culture object does it become possible to discover in what ways culture ...
... creating, or mapping out, the culture structures (Rambo & Chan, 1990) that form one dimension of social life. It is the ... created the analytically autonomous culture object does it become possible to discover in what ways culture ...
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... created a revolution in the human sciences by insisting on the textuality of institutions and the discursive nature of human action. When viewed from a contemporary strong program perspective, such approaches 16 The Meanings of Social Life.
... created a revolution in the human sciences by insisting on the textuality of institutions and the discursive nature of human action. When viewed from a contemporary strong program perspective, such approaches 16 The Meanings of Social Life.
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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