Cultural theory. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Michael Thompson, Richardson Ellis, Aaron Wildavsky.
• Authors: Thompson, Michael; Ellis, Richardson; Wildavsky, Aaron B
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgments; Sociocultural Viability: An Introduction; Our Point of Departure: The Grid-Group Typology; The Patterns Behind the Dimensions; How Free to Choose What?; Notes; PART ONE THE THEORY; Introduction to Part One: Against Dualism; Notes; 1 The Social Construction of Nature; Five Myths of Nature; The Hermit's Myth; The Social Construction of Human Nature; Notes; 2 Making Ends Meet; Reconciling Needs and Resources; Limits to Reconciling Needs and Resources Five Strategies Mapped onto Five Ways of LifeOnly Five Management Strategies?; Notes; 3 Preferences; Accounting for Tastes; Deriving Preferences from Ways of Life; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Ringing the Changes; Thinking About Surprise; A Typology of Surprises; Twelve Kinds of Change; Loosening the Constraints; Change Is Essential to Stability; Notes; 5 Instability of the Parts, Coherence of the Whole; Traveling Hopefully, Never Arriving; The Making and Breaking of Alliances; Fatalism's Functions; Why Pluralism Is Essential; Cultural Theory Restated; Notes; PART TWO THE MASTERS Introduction to Part Two: The Indispensability of Functional ExplanationComparing Typologies of Viable Ways of Life; Cultural-Functional Explanation; Notes; 6 Montesquieu, Comte, and Spencer; Montesquieu; Auguste Comte; Herbert Spencer; The Biological Parallel; Cycling In and Out in Highland Burma; Notes; 7 Durkheim; Young Emile and Master Durkheim; The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life; The Division of Labor in Society; Suicide; The Master, Not the Whippersnapper; Notes; 8 Marx; Marx's Historical Materialism; Mystification in Marxian and Cultural Theory Marx's Claim to a Privileged PositionBeyond Individualist Hegemony; Is Communism a New Way of Life?; Notes; 9 Weber; Weber and Grid-Group Analysis; Weber and Functional Explanation; Weber and Durkheim Compared; Conclusion; Notes; 10 Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, and Parsons; Malinowski and Radcliffe-Brown; Talcott Parsons; Linking the Micro and Macro; The Assumption of Societal Consensus; The Pattern Variables; Functional Requisites; Notes; 11 Merton, Stinchcombe, and Elster; Robert Merton; Arthur Stinchcombe and Jon Elster; Notes; PART THREE POLITICAL CULTURES Introduction to Part Three: Cultures Are Plural, Not SingularOn the Political in Political Culture; Culture and Its Critics; Political Culture and National Character; Notes; 12 The Missing Ways of Life: Egalitarianism and Fatalism; The Moral Basis of a Backward Society; The Mandarin and the Cadre; Notes; 13 American Political Subcultures; Notes; 14 The Civic Culture Reexamined; Italy; Germany; Mexico; The United States and Great Britain; The Cultural Requisites of Democratic Stability; Notes; 15 Hard Questions, Soft Answers; Stolen Rhetoric and Cultural Traitors; The Multiple Self
• Publisher Details: New York : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 306; Culture; POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture; Cultura; Culture; Kultursoziologie; Kulturtheorie; Politische Soziologie; Soziologie; Cultura (teoria); Typologie (psychologie); Personnalité et culture; Changement social; Culture; Cultuur; Theorieën; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429501180; 0429501188; 9780429980817; 0429980817; 9780429969737; 0429969732
• Related ISBNs: 9780813378640; 9780813378633
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Vendor-supplied metadata.
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