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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... hermeneutic dimension. While Parsons theorized that values were important, he did not explain the nature of values themselves. Instead of engaging in the social imaginary, diving into the febrile codes and narratives that make up a ...
... hermeneutic dimension. While Parsons theorized that values were important, he did not explain the nature of values themselves. Instead of engaging in the social imaginary, diving into the febrile codes and narratives that make up a ...
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... hermeneutic and theoretical resources to establish the autonomy of culture, they constituted a turning point for the construction of a strong program. In the next section we discuss how this project has been derailed by a succession of ...
... hermeneutic and theoretical resources to establish the autonomy of culture, they constituted a turning point for the construction of a strong program. In the next section we discuss how this project has been derailed by a succession of ...
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... hermeneutic capabilities to classical functionalism curiously resembles Parsons in its tendency to invoke abstracted influences and processes as adequate explanation for empirical social actions. In this respect, in contrast to the ...
... hermeneutic capabilities to classical functionalism curiously resembles Parsons in its tendency to invoke abstracted influences and processes as adequate explanation for empirical social actions. In this respect, in contrast to the ...
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... hermeneutic understanding are rare. All too often meaning remains a sort of black box, with analytical attention centered on the circumstances of cultural production and reception. When meanings and 20 The Meanings of Social Life.
... hermeneutic understanding are rare. All too often meaning remains a sort of black box, with analytical attention centered on the circumstances of cultural production and reception. When meanings and 20 The Meanings of Social Life.
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... hermeneutics that can perhaps better accomplish this theoretical goal. STEPS TOWARD A STRONG PROGRAM All things ... hermeneutic inadequacy, ambivalence over cultural autonomy, and poorly specified, abstract mechanisms for grounding ...
... hermeneutics that can perhaps better accomplish this theoretical goal. STEPS TOWARD A STRONG PROGRAM All things ... hermeneutic inadequacy, ambivalence over cultural autonomy, and poorly specified, abstract mechanisms for grounding ...
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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The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology Jeffrey C. Alexander Vista previa restringida - 2003 |
The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology Jeffrey C. Alexander Vista previa restringida - 2003 |
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