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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... institutions, no matter how impersonal or technocratic, have an ideal foundation that fundamentally shapes their organization and goals and provides the structured context for debates over their legitimation.2 When described in the folk ...
... institutions, no matter how impersonal or technocratic, have an ideal foundation that fundamentally shapes their organization and goals and provides the structured context for debates over their legitimation.2 When described in the folk ...
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... institutions if a society was to be able to function as a coherent enterprise. The result was a theory that seemed ... institutional dynamics to such an extent that it is difficult to imagine where culture's autonomy might lie in any ...
... institutions if a society was to be able to function as a coherent enterprise. The result was a theory that seemed ... institutional dynamics to such an extent that it is difficult to imagine where culture's autonomy might lie in any ...
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... institutions and the discursive nature of human action. When viewed from a contemporary strong program perspective, such approaches remain too abstracted; they also typically fail to specify agency and causal dynamics. In these failings ...
... institutions and the discursive nature of human action. When viewed from a contemporary strong program perspective, such approaches remain too abstracted; they also typically fail to specify agency and causal dynamics. In these failings ...
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... institutions, flows of power, and technologies. Contingency is specified at the level of “history,” at the level of untheorizable collisions and ruptures, not at the level of the dispositif. There is little room for a synchronically ...
... institutions, flows of power, and technologies. Contingency is specified at the level of “history,” at the level of untheorizable collisions and ruptures, not at the level of the dispositif. There is little room for a synchronically ...
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... institutions and bureaucracies (Miller & Rose, 1990:7). There is little work here to recapture the more textual nature of political and administrative discourses. No effort is made to go beyond a “thin description” and identify the ...
... institutions and bureaucracies (Miller & Rose, 1990:7). There is little work here to recapture the more textual nature of political and administrative discourses. No effort is made to go beyond a “thin description” and identify the ...
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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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