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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... pattern ; social action cannot be viewed mechanistically , for it inevitably has some cultural reference . On the ... patterns of meaning in and of themselves . Because Parsons also posits the existence of a third analytical system - the ...
... pattern ; social action cannot be viewed mechanistically , for it inevitably has some cultural reference . On the ... patterns of meaning in and of themselves . Because Parsons also posits the existence of a third analytical system - the ...
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... pattern becomes institu- tionalized , either through socialization , status elevation , or material re- wards . Because of this social focus , functional analysis has often had the effect of separating social science from the ...
... pattern becomes institu- tionalized , either through socialization , status elevation , or material re- wards . Because of this social focus , functional analysis has often had the effect of separating social science from the ...
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... patterns of subjective experience . For Saussure , it means seeking out the internal relationships of words . As we will see , semiotics articulates the structure of sign systems in formal terms . Structure consists of intricate patterns ...
... patterns of subjective experience . For Saussure , it means seeking out the internal relationships of words . As we will see , semiotics articulates the structure of sign systems in formal terms . Structure consists of intricate patterns ...
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... patterns focus on five central dilemmas , or pattern vari- ables . By showing how these correlate with different kinds of institutional behavior , Lipset makes these normative variables more precise and more credible . The trade - off ...
... patterns focus on five central dilemmas , or pattern vari- ables . By showing how these correlate with different kinds of institutional behavior , Lipset makes these normative variables more precise and more credible . The trade - off ...
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... patterns of meaning . The author's own protestations aside , we would be misled if we took Barthes's essay on wrestling as suggesting that semiotics is relevant only to exotica that are outside the boundaries of ordinary social life ...
... patterns of meaning . The author's own protestations aside , we would be misled if we took Barthes's essay on wrestling as suggesting that semiotics is relevant only to exotica that are outside the boundaries of ordinary social life ...
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 |