Explaining culture : the social pursuit of subjective order /
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...
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2012.
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| Online Access: | Ebook Central Academic Complete |
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Table of 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
- Conditions for community and culture
- Network position, knowledge-based affect, and cultural manipulation
- Conclusion.