Culture and Society: Contemporary DebatesJeffrey C. Alexander, Steven Seidman Cambridge University Press, 1990 M08 31 - 375 pages Brings together the major statements by the leading contemporary scholars of cultural analysis on the relationship between culture and society. |
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... argues , however , that the need for mutual understanding leads beyond individual experience to shared ideas and , eventually , to the structuring power of cultural systems . Dilthey emphasizes the internal and subjective location of ...
... argues , however , that the need for mutual understanding leads beyond individual experience to shared ideas and , eventually , to the structuring power of cultural systems . Dilthey emphasizes the internal and subjective location of ...
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... argue , moreover , that neither cultural coding nor social determinism pre- cludes a role for psychological imperatives . Action is symbolic , social , and motivational at the same time . To carry out a full empirical analysis , then ...
... argue , moreover , that neither cultural coding nor social determinism pre- cludes a role for psychological imperatives . Action is symbolic , social , and motivational at the same time . To carry out a full empirical analysis , then ...
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... argues , however , that although individual ac- tors can be conceived as responsible for speech acts , they have virtually no control over the language these acts employ . Speaking individuals cannot determine the signs they use . These ...
... argues , however , that although individual ac- tors can be conceived as responsible for speech acts , they have virtually no control over the language these acts employ . Speaking individuals cannot determine the signs they use . These ...
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... argues that such must be the case , declaring linguistics to be merely a subcase of semiotics , the more general science of signs . Every social activity is enmeshed in a sign system that works in an analo- gous way to language ...
... argues that such must be the case , declaring linguistics to be merely a subcase of semiotics , the more general science of signs . Every social activity is enmeshed in a sign system that works in an analo- gous way to language ...
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... argue , in these terms , that universalism emerges because scientific objec- tivity must be protected and that communism is a " functional impera- tive " of science because only in this manner can free access to results be guaranteed ...
... argue , in these terms , that universalism emerges because scientific objec- tivity must be protected and that communism is a " functional impera- tive " of science because only in this manner can free access to results be guaranteed ...
Contents
The human studies Wilhelm Dilthey | 31 |
Values and social systems Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils | 39 |
Culture and ideological hegemony Antonio Gramsci | 47 |
Signs and language Ferdinand Saussure | 55 |
FUNCTIONALIST | 65 |
The normative structure of science Robert K Merton | 67 |
Values and democracy Seymour Martin Lipset | 75 |
SEMIOTIC | 85 |
Rituals of mutuality E P Thompson | 173 |
Masculinity and factory labor Paul Willis | 183 |
Sexual discourse and power Michel Foucault | 199 |
Artistic taste and cultural capital Pierre Bourdieu | 205 |
Substantive debates Moral order and social crisis perspectives on modern culture Steven Seidman | 217 |
IS MODERNITY A SECULAR OR SACRED ORDER? | 237 |
Social sources of secularization Peter Berger | 239 |
The future of religion Wolfgang Schluchter | 249 |
The world of wrestling Roland Barthes | 87 |
Food as symbolic code Marshall Sahlins | 94 |
DRAMATURGICAL | 103 |
Outofframe activity Erving Goffman | 105 |
The Balinese cockfight as play Clifford Geertz | 113 |
WEBERIAN | 123 |
Puritanism and revolutionary ideology Michael Walzer | 125 |
French Catholicism and secular grace Jesse R Pitts | 134 |
DURKHEIMIAN | 145 |
Liminality and community Victor Turner | 147 |
Symbolic pollution Mary Douglas | 155 |
Sex as symbol in Victorian purity Carroll SmithRosenberg | 160 |
MARXIAN | 171 |
Civil religion in America Robert Bellah | 262 |
CAN SECULAR REASON CREATE CULTURAL ORDER? | 273 |
Culture industry reconsidered Theodor W Adorno | 275 |
From consensual order to instrumental control Herbert Marcuse | 283 |
The end of ideology in the West Daniel Bell | 290 |
Beyond coercion and crisis The coming of an era of voluntary community Talcott Parsons | 298 |
Ideology the cultural apparatus and the new consciousness industry Alvin Gouldner | 306 |
DISSOLUTION OR RECONSTRUCTION OF MORAL ORDER? | 317 |
Modernism postmodernism and the decline of moral order Daniel Bell | 319 |
The postmodern condition JeanFrancois Lyotard | 330 |
Modernity versus postmodernity Jurgen Habermas | 342 |
Mapping the postmodern Andreas Huyssen | 355 |
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action activity actors aesthetic American analysis APPROACHES TO CULTURE argues autonomy avantgarde Balinese become behavior beliefs bourgeois capitalism century Christian church civil religion cockfight conception consciousness industry contemporary counter-Enlightenment critical cultural apparatus cultural Marxism culture industry Daniel Bell differentiation discourse dominant E. P. Thompson economic Enlightenment existence experience expression fact forces Frankfurt School French function groups Herbert Marcuse historical idea ideology individual institutionalized institutions integrated intellectual Jurgen Habermas language language games legitimation liminal logic Marx masculine Max Weber means ment modernist moral movement nature neoconservative norms objects organization pattern philosophy political possible postmodernism principle problem production rational reason relation relationship religious revolution ritual Robert Bellah role sacred scientific secular semiotics sense sexual signifier social structure social system Sociology specific sphere status symbolic theory tion tional tradition understanding University values world view wrestling
References to this book
Contemporary Philosophy of Social Science: A Multicultural Approach Brian Fay No preview available - 1996 |
Christ's Body: Identity, Culture and Society in Late Medieval Writings Sarah Beckwith No preview available - 1996 |