The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology
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 recognizi…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-0-19-530640-8
- EAN: 9780195306408
- Produktnummer: 18151390
- Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.6 cm 452 g
- Gewicht: 452
Über den Autor
Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology.
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