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Interpreting Culture - Rethinking Method and Truth in Social Theory (Hardcover)
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Interpreting Culture - Rethinking Method and Truth in Social Theory (Hardcover)
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Scholars have conducted the study of culture in two general ways:
as an observer science, where behavior and world-views are
measurable, rational, and subject to impartial examination; and as
an interpretive art, where a scholar actually participates in the
understanding of cultures. In view of increasingly manifest
problems with both stances, Joseph D. Lewandowski proposes an
alternative, one that capitalizes on the strengths of both schools
of interpretation and in fact underpins the work of major social
theorists of the modern era, including Adorno, Foucault, and
Bourdieu. Gathering insights from a wide array of anthropologists,
archaeologists, and philosophers and applying them to case studies
in the United States, Lewandowski develops a practical model of
culture and method of interpretation that are built around the
concept of "constructing constellations." According to this
concept--drawn from the work of Simmel, Kracauer, Benjamin, and
Adorno--cultures are made up of social fields, embedded social
practices that are continually created and patterned in certain
ways, akin to constellations. The constellations of embedded
actions and beliefs in different settings, such as ghetto life in
New York or the world of boxing in Chicago, are, Lewandowski
argues, observable, measurable, and ultimately comparable.
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