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Social Forces, 1937
T HE definition of culture most often quoted is that of Tyler: "Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." A particular culture has been defined by Redfield as "an organized body of conventional understandings, mnanifest in act ...
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T HE definition of culture most often quoted is that of Tyler: "Culture is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society." A particular culture has been defined by Redfield as "an organized body of conventional understandings, mnanifest in act ...
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Cultural Genealogy: Method for a Historical Sociology of Culture or Cultural Sociology of History
Cultural Sociology, 2007This article looks at the value of genealogical analysis for doing historical research in cultural sociology, using Nietzsche’s definition of genealogy.The point is to resuscitate a method that has often been rejected by sociologists, and demonstrate its value for analyzing forms of culture that have become tacit or unarticulated over time. To make the
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Pierre Bourdieu and the sociology of culture
Media, Culture & Society, 1980The regulating mechanism Bourdieu proposes is the habitus (ibid.: 7295). This he describes as ‘the strategy-generating principle enabling agents to cope with unforeseen and ever-changing situations…a system of lasting, transposable dispositions which, integrating past experiences, functions at every moment as a matrix of perceptions, appreciations and ...
Nicholas Garnham, Raymond Williams
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2008
Two general questions need to be answered in order to define a manageable way of addressing a topic as forbiddingly large as the relations between sociology and cultural analysis. The first is whether to define these relations as the province of a particular and specialized area of work within sociology, or whether to consider them as pointing to a ...
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Two general questions need to be answered in order to define a manageable way of addressing a topic as forbiddingly large as the relations between sociology and cultural analysis. The first is whether to define these relations as the province of a particular and specialized area of work within sociology, or whether to consider them as pointing to a ...
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2011
Culture is the symbolic-expressive dimension of social life. In common usage, the term “culture” can mean the cultivation associated with “civilized” habits of mind, the creative products associated with the arts, or the entire way of life associated with a group.
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Culture is the symbolic-expressive dimension of social life. In common usage, the term “culture” can mean the cultivation associated with “civilized” habits of mind, the creative products associated with the arts, or the entire way of life associated with a group.
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Dialogue, Culture, Critique: The Sociology of Culture and the New Sociological Imagination
International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society, 2006In this paper, I show how the consideration of the role of the intellectual in democratic society informs an understanding of the critical project of the sociology of culture. This leads to a review of general sociological approaches to the problem of culture as they contribute to a critical project, suggesting the need for a distinctive ...
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Language in a Cultural Sociological Perspective
2016In this chapter I intend briefly to reconstruct the ways in which we can consider language as a cultural resource that people use to share their social world, organize their social life, and attribute values and meanings to their experiences. In particular, I consider the familiar question of the context needed to understand the facts of language in ...
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