ISBN:
9781509528332
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (285 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Bauman, Zygmunt Sketches in the Theory of Culture
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Culture
;
Semiotics
;
Social structure
;
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Abstract:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Title page -- Copyright page -- A Message in a Bottle: on the Recovered Work of Zygmunt Bauman -- Introduction -- The History of the Preserved Copy and the Reconstruction of the Text of the Book -- Sketches in the Theory of Culture in the Context of Bauman's Earlier Work -- The Problematic of Sketches in the Theory of Culture -- The Evolution of Zygmunt Bauman's Theory of Culture -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Documents collected in the editorial file of Sketches in the Theory of Culture (book card no. B-196), located in the Ossolineum Publishing House -- Notes -- From the Author -- Part I Sign and Culture -- I: The Origins of the Semiotic Theory of Culture, or the Crisis of Cultural Anthropology -- Culture as an Object of Research -- One's Own Society and the Perception of Difference -- The Name of the Crisis -- Claude Lévi-Strauss, or the Negation of the Negation -- What Next? -- Notes -- II: Towards a Semiotic Theory of Culture -- The Contemporary Concept of the Sign -- The Meaning of Human Behaviours -- Arbitrariness and the Degrees of Freedom in Action-Sign -- The Semiotic Function as Determinant -- Culture as the Codification of the Semiotic Function of Action -- Notes -- III: Man and Sign -- The Contemporary form of Praxeomorphism -- Signs and the Animal World -- Intra-Species Communication and the Creation of the Human -- The Battle Over Human Uniqueness -- Instead of a Conclusion -- Notes -- IV: The Problem of Universals and the Semiotic Theory of Culture -- Edmund Leach's Theory of Realms of Social Space -- Undemarcated Margins In a Demarcated World -- Afterword -- Notes -- V: Some Research Problems in the Semiotic Theory of Culture -- On The Possibility of a General Theory of Symbolic Behaviour -- The Problem of a Synchronic Analysis of the 'Cultural Field'
Abstract:
Research Problems in the Phylogenesis of Models -- Research Problems In the Ontogenesis of the 'Cultural Field' -- Research Problems in the Development of Culture -- Notes -- Part II Culture and Social Structure -- I: Cultural and Extra-Cultural Organization of Society -- The Unit of Analysis: the Socio-Cultural System -- The Unit of Analysis: the Human Individual -- Notes -- II: Economics, Culture, and Typologies of Societies -- Methodological Premises -- Infrastructure of Cultural Changes -- 'Marketization' of the Process of Satisfying Needs -- 'Marketization' and Cultural Changes -- Other Lessons Regarding Similarities and Differences -- Notes -- III: Cultural Determinants of the Research Process -- The Relative Autonomy of Culture -- The Structure of the Act Of Research -- Cultural Determination and Cultural Differentiation -- Culture and Knowledge: Points of Intersection -- Notes -- IV: Three Observations About Problems of Contemporary Education -- The Lost Social Function of Youth -- Extra-Cultural Determinants of Behaviour -- Problem of Emotional Safety -- Notes -- V: Masses, Classes, Elites: Semiotics and the Re-Imagination of the Sociological Function of Culture -- Note One: the Matter of Infrastructure -- Note Two: In the Matter of 'Higher' and 'Lower' Culture -- Notes -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index -- End User License Agreement
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