Vocabularies of Public Life

Empirical Essays in Symbolic Structure
Herausgeber: Wuthnow, Robert

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

First published in 1992, Vocabularies of Public Life explores the revolution that has taken place in our understanding of contemporary culture and decodes a number of the symbols which now dominate public life.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Revivals
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 242mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9781032383798
• ISBN-10: 1032383798
• Artikelnr.: 67513812

Autorenporträt

Robert Wuthnow

Inhaltsangabe

Notes on contributors Introduction: New directions in the empirical study
of cultural codes 1. The restriction of meaning in religious discourse:
centripetal devices in a fundamentalist Christian sermon 2. The gospel of
giving: the narrative construction of a sacrificial economy 3. When
scientists saw ghosts and why they stopped: American spiritualism in
history 4. Reading science as text 5. Paradox in the discourse of science
6. Putting it together: measuring the syntax of aural and visual symbols
7. The musical structure and social context of number one songs, 1955 to
1988: an exploratory analysis 8. A theory of pictorial discourse 9.
Decoding the syntax of modern dance 10. Metaphors of industrial
rationality: the social construction of electronics policy in the United
States and France 11. The parameters of possible constitutional
interpretation 12. The role of elites in setting agendas for public debate:
a historical case 13. Materialism, ideology, and political change