Loren Demerath

Explaining Culture

The Social Pursuit of Subjective Order

• Broschiertes 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: 10. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 251g
• ISBN-13: 9780739190562
• ISBN-10: 0739190563
• Artikelnr.: 40048654

Autorenporträt

Loren Demerath is associate professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Centenary College of Louisiana.

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