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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... mass murder unless we have already identified with the victims, and this only happens once in a while, when the symbols are aligned in the right way. The secret to the compulsive power of social structures is that they have an inside ...
... mass murder unless we have already identified with the victims, and this only happens once in a while, when the symbols are aligned in the right way. The secret to the compulsive power of social structures is that they have an inside ...
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... mass murder of the Jews into an “engorged” evil has been fundamental to the expansion of moral universalism that marks the hopeful potential of our times, and it is paradigmatic of the way cultural traumas shape collective identities ...
... mass murder of the Jews into an “engorged” evil has been fundamental to the expansion of moral universalism that marks the hopeful potential of our times, and it is paradigmatic of the way cultural traumas shape collective identities ...
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... murder of American and Filipino soldiers who were taken prisoner when Bataan and Corregidor fell.” In response to these accounts, the U.S. State Department had lodged protests ... mass murders discovered by American GIs when they liberated.
... murder of American and Filipino soldiers who were taken prisoner when Bataan and Corregidor fell.” In response to these accounts, the U.S. State Department had lodged protests ... mass murders discovered by American GIs when they liberated.
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A Cultural Sociology Jeffrey C. Alexander. Jewish mass murders discovered by American GIs when they liberated the ... murder from a Sovietliberated camp in Poland, Collier's magazine acknowledged: “A lot of Americans simply do not believe ...
A Cultural Sociology Jeffrey C. Alexander. Jewish mass murders discovered by American GIs when they liberated the ... murder from a Sovietliberated camp in Poland, Collier's magazine acknowledged: “A lot of Americans simply do not believe ...
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... mass murder was fundamentally different from the other traumatic and bloody events in a modern history already dripping in blood, that it represented not simply evil but “radical evil,” in Kant's remarkable phrase (Kant, 1960),10 that ...
... mass murder was fundamentally different from the other traumatic and bloody events in a modern history already dripping in blood, that it represented not simply evil but “radical evil,” in Kant's remarkable phrase (Kant, 1960),10 that ...
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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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