Meaning and moral order : explorations in cultural analysis /

Meaning and Moral Order goes beyond classical, neoclassical, and poststructural theories of culture in its attempt to move away from problems of meaning to a more objective concept of culture. Innovative, controversial, challenging, it will compel scholars to rethink many of the assumptions on which...

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Autor principal: Wuthnow, Robert (Autor)
Formato: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:inglês
Publicado em: Berkeley ; London : University of California Press ©1989.
Acesso em linha:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1ppfv1
Sumário:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • 1. Cultural Analysis
  • 2. Beyond the Problem of Meaning
  • 3. The Structure of Moral Codes
  • 4. Ritual and Moral Order
  • 5. Moral Order and Ideology
  • 6. Social Selection Among Ideological Forms
  • 7. The Moral Basis of Cultural Change
  • 8. The Institutionalization of Science
  • 9. State Structures and Cultural Reform
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index