Explaining Culture: The Social Pursuit of Subjective Order

Explaining Culture: The Social Pursuit of Subjective Order
ISBN-10
073911638X
ISBN-13
9780739116388
Category
Social Science
Pages
151
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Lexington Books
Author
Loren Demerath

Description

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.

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