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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... Sense about the Alternative to the Good,” in M. P. Lara, ed., Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2001. PREFACE The perspective I have developed in this book grew.
... Sense about the Alternative to the Good,” in M. P. Lara, ed., Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives. Berkeley and Los Angeles, University of California Press, 2001. PREFACE The perspective I have developed in this book grew.
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... , then guffaws, and then real belly laughs. Cultural sociology? my colleagues scoffed. This idea struck them not only as deeply offensive to their disciplinary sense but intellectually absurd. The very phrase “cultural sociology”
... , then guffaws, and then real belly laughs. Cultural sociology? my colleagues scoffed. This idea struck them not only as deeply offensive to their disciplinary sense but intellectually absurd. The very phrase “cultural sociology”
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A Cultural Sociology Jeffrey C. Alexander. disciplinary sense but intellectually absurd. The very phrase “cultural sociology” seemed an oxymoron. Culture and sociology could not be combined as adjective and noun. If there were a ...
A Cultural Sociology Jeffrey C. Alexander. disciplinary sense but intellectually absurd. The very phrase “cultural sociology” seemed an oxymoron. Culture and sociology could not be combined as adjective and noun. If there were a ...
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... sense—these essays are also rooted in pragmatic, broadly normative interests. As a chastened but still hopeful post–sixties radical, I was mesmerized by the Watergate crisis that began to shake American society in 1972. It showed me ...
... sense—these essays are also rooted in pragmatic, broadly normative interests. As a chastened but still hopeful post–sixties radical, I was mesmerized by the Watergate crisis that began to shake American society in 1972. It showed me ...
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... sense. When we turn to the empirical world, we find that functionalist logic ties up cultural form with social function and institutional dynamics to such an extent that it is difficult to imagine where culture's autonomy might lie in ...
... sense. When we turn to the empirical world, we find that functionalist logic ties up cultural form with social function and institutional dynamics to such an extent that it is difficult to imagine where culture's autonomy might lie in ...
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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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