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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... traditional life. Classical and modern sociologists did not believe this to be true. They saw the break from the “irrationalities” of traditional society as radical and dichotomous. One needs to develop an alternative, more cultural ...
... traditional life. Classical and modern sociologists did not believe this to be true. They saw the break from the “irrationalities” of traditional society as radical and dichotomous. One needs to develop an alternative, more cultural ...
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... tradition and modernity. The extraordinary German founder of sociology, Max Weber, devoted a large part of his maturity to the historical-comparative study of world religions. He showed that the human desire for salvation became ...
... tradition and modernity. The extraordinary German founder of sociology, Max Weber, devoted a large part of his maturity to the historical-comparative study of world religions. He showed that the human desire for salvation became ...
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... traditional life, we can find out how and why only by following a cultural-sociological path. In the history of social science, the “friends of culture” have tended to be conservative. They have betrayed a nostalgia for the organicism ...
... traditional life, we can find out how and why only by following a cultural-sociological path. In the history of social science, the “friends of culture” have tended to be conservative. They have betrayed a nostalgia for the organicism ...
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... traditions. More important, they are manifestations of deeper contradictions relating to axiomatic and foundational logics in the theory of culture. Pivotal to all these disputes is the issue of “cultural autonomy” (Alexander, 1990a ...
... traditions. More important, they are manifestations of deeper contradictions relating to axiomatic and foundational logics in the theory of culture. Pivotal to all these disputes is the issue of “cultural autonomy” (Alexander, 1990a ...
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... traditional sociology of culture approach treats culture as a dependent variable, whereas in cultural sociology it ... traditions argue that culture is something important in society, something that repays careful sociological study ...
... traditional sociology of culture approach treats culture as a dependent variable, whereas in cultural sociology it ... traditions argue that culture is something important in society, something that repays careful sociological study ...
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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