The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural SociologyIn 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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It is not to lapse into the idealism against which sociology should indeed define itself, nor the wish-fulfilling ... Socially constructed subjectivity forms the will of collectivities; shapes the rules of organizations; defines the ...
It is not to lapse into the idealism against which sociology should indeed define itself, nor the wish-fulfilling ... Socially constructed subjectivity forms the will of collectivities; shapes the rules of organizations; defines the ...
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In chapter 2, I try to come to grips with the event that has been defined as the greatest evil of our time, the Holocaust. This evil is a constructed one, for it is not a fact that reflects modern reality but a collective representation ...
In chapter 2, I try to come to grips with the event that has been defined as the greatest evil of our time, the Holocaust. This evil is a constructed one, for it is not a fact that reflects modern reality but a collective representation ...
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In this approach, culture becomes defined as a “soft,” not really independent variable: it is more or less confined to participating in the reproduction of social relations. A notion that has emerged from the extraordinary new field of ...
In this approach, culture becomes defined as a “soft,” not really independent variable: it is more or less confined to participating in the reproduction of social relations. A notion that has emerged from the extraordinary new field of ...
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... 1987) and define dramatic meaning (Frye, 1971, [1957]). Caught up in the ongoing crises of modernity, the classical founders of the discipline believed that epochal historical transformations had emptied the world of meaning.
... 1987) and define dramatic meaning (Frye, 1971, [1957]). Caught up in the ongoing crises of modernity, the classical founders of the discipline believed that epochal historical transformations had emptied the world of meaning.
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In his formulation there always will be systems of stratification defined by class, and all that is important for dominant groups is to have their cultural codes embraced as legitimate. In the final analysis, what we have here is a ...
In his formulation there always will be systems of stratification defined by class, and all that is important for dominant groups is to have their cultural codes embraced as legitimate. In the final analysis, what we have here is a ...
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Índice
| 3 | |
| 11 | |
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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| Título | The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology |
| Autor | Jeffrey C. Alexander |
| Editor | Oxford University Press, 2003 |
| ISBN | 0198036469, 9780198036463 |
| N.º de páginas | 312 páginas |
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