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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... function . The initial dichotomy Two theoretical poles have governed the analysis of action and order since scientific consideration of societies began . The mechanistic concep- tion of action has likened human behavior to a machine ...
... function . The initial dichotomy Two theoretical poles have governed the analysis of action and order since scientific consideration of societies began . The mechanistic concep- tion of action has likened human behavior to a machine ...
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... Functional analysis should be con- cerned with the " institutionalization " of culture , with how culture be- comes part of the real structures of social systems . This focus on institu- tionalization , Parsons believed , would ...
... Functional analysis should be con- cerned with the " institutionalization " of culture , with how culture be- comes part of the real structures of social systems . This focus on institu- tionalization , Parsons believed , would ...
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... functional analysis has often had the effect of separating social science from the interpretive techniques of the humanities . We arrive at the paradoxical situation that the functional approach to meaning has undermined cultural ...
... functional analysis has often had the effect of separating social science from the interpretive techniques of the humanities . We arrive at the paradoxical situation that the functional approach to meaning has undermined cultural ...
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... functional analysis , however , in more than these important explanatory ways . It has an explicitly normative thrust . It is interested not just in explaining or interpreting culture but in evaluating what is " good meaning " versus ...
... functional analysis , however , in more than these important explanatory ways . It has an explicitly normative thrust . It is interested not just in explaining or interpreting culture but in evaluating what is " good meaning " versus ...
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... functional impera- tive " of science because only in this manner can free access to results be guaranteed . The ethos of science may be learned through precepts and examples , but it is reinforced and stabilized by sanctions . Because ...
... functional impera- tive " of science because only in this manner can free access to results be guaranteed . The ethos of science may be learned through precepts and examples , but it is reinforced and stabilized by sanctions . Because ...
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 |