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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I would like to record my gratitude to my hosts on these occasions, Michael Walzer at Princeton and Neil Smelser in Palo Alto, both of whom, by their intellectual examples and their exemplary persons, have had profound effects on my ...
I would like to record my gratitude to my hosts on these occasions, Michael Walzer at Princeton and Neil Smelser in Palo Alto, both of whom, by their intellectual examples and their exemplary persons, have had profound effects on my ...
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In Britain, for example, culture has been making headway since the early 1970s. In the 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 ...
In Britain, for example, culture has been making headway since the early 1970s. In the 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 ...
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... mechanisms through which culture links with social structure and action. There is no clearer example of this latter process than in Policing the Crisis (Hall, Jefferson, Clarke, & Roberts, The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology 17.
... mechanisms through which culture links with social structure and action. There is no clearer example of this latter process than in Policing the Crisis (Hall, Jefferson, Clarke, & Roberts, The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology 17.
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While Weber, for example, argued that forms of eschatology have determinate outputs on the way that social life is patterned, for Bourdieu cultural content is arbitrary and without import. In his 18 The Meanings of Social Life.
While Weber, for example, argued that forms of eschatology have determinate outputs on the way that social life is patterned, for Bourdieu cultural content is arbitrary and without import. In his 18 The Meanings of Social Life.
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Audience ethnographies, for example, are undertaken to document the decisive impact of class, race, and gender on the ways that television programs are understood. Here we find the sociology of culture writ large.
Audience ethnographies, for example, are undertaken to document the decisive impact of class, race, and gender on the ways that television programs are understood. Here we find the sociology of culture writ large.
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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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