Loren Demerath

Explaining Culture

The Social Pursuit of Subjective Order

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This provocative book offers a new theory of culture with a unique focus on our aesthetic response to order and meaningfulness.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 166
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9780739116388
• ISBN-10: 073911638X
• Artikelnr.: 35341881

Autorenporträt

By Loren Demerath

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Alienation and Anomia as a Basis for Theorizing Culture
Chapter Two: Knowledge-Based Affect and the Pleasures of Order Chapter
Three: Putting Our Selves in Order: An Epistemological Identity Theory
Chapter Four: The Social Pursuit of Meaningfulness: An Epistemological
Theory of Culture Chapter Five: The Pursuit of Meaningfulness Through:
Epistemological Conversation Chapter Six: Conditions for Community and
Culture Chapter Seven: Network Position, Knowledge-Based Affect, and
Cultural Manipulation Chapter Eight: Conclusion