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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... human beings. They have pointed, in other words, to the compulsory aspects of social life. But what fascinates and frightens me are those collective forces that are not compulsory, the social forces to which we enthusiastically and ...
... human beings. They have pointed, in other words, to the compulsory aspects of social life. But what fascinates and frightens me are those collective forces that are not compulsory, the social forces to which we enthusiastically and ...
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... human sciences, the symbolic revolution in anthropology, and the cultural turn in American historiography. Behind all these contemporary developments has been the continuing vitality of psychoanalytic thinking in both intellectual and ...
... human sciences, the symbolic revolution in anthropology, and the cultural turn in American historiography. Behind all these contemporary developments has been the continuing vitality of psychoanalytic thinking in both intellectual and ...
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... human desire for salvation became patterned in different ways, that each difference contained a practical ethic, and that these ethics, carried on the wings of salvation, had enormous impact on the social organization of practical life ...
... human desire for salvation became patterned in different ways, that each difference contained a practical ethic, and that these ethics, carried on the wings of salvation, had enormous impact on the social organization of practical life ...
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... human beings cannot be entirely reflective and critical about. If we understand this, we can separate knowledge from power and not become only a servant to it. 1 THE STRONG PROGRAM IN CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY Elements of a.
... human beings cannot be entirely reflective and critical about. If we understand this, we can separate knowledge from power and not become only a servant to it. 1 THE STRONG PROGRAM IN CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY Elements of a.
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... human sciences. As with any profound intellectual shift, this has been a process characterized by leads and lags. In Britain, for example, culture has been making headway since the early 1970s. In the United States, the tide began to ...
... human sciences. As with any profound intellectual shift, this has been a process characterized by leads and lags. In Britain, for example, culture has been making headway since the early 1970s. In the United States, the tide began to ...
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Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity | |
A Cultural Sociology of Evil | |
The Discourse of American Civil Society with Philip Smith | |
Watergate as Democratic Ritual | |
The Sacred and Profane Information Machine | |
How Intellectuals Explain Our | |
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