Explaining culture : the social pursuit of subjective order / Loren Demerath.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Demerath, Loren, 1962-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (163 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This provocative book offers a new theory of culture with a unique focus on our aesthetic response to order and meaningfulness. After first identifying the basic principles of aesthetic valuation, then describing the three dimensions of producing shared meaningfulness, it explains the appeal of such things as myth, ritual, symbol, humor, conversation, identity, stereotypes, change, religion, organizational culture, solidarity, and how all of those things vary according to positions within social structure.

Contents:

Alienation and anomia as a basis for theorizing culture

Knowledge-based affect and the pleasures of order

Putting our selves in order: an epistemological identity theory

The social pursuit of meaningfulness: an epistemological theory of culture

The pursuit of meaningfulness through epistemological conversation chapter six conditions for community and culture

Network position, knowledge-based affect, and cultural manipulation

Conclusion.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.

ISBN:

979-82-16-30923-9

1-280-77901-2

9786613689405

0-7391-7542-4

OCLC:

855502174