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This book is about our appreciation for order and meaningfulness.
It offers a new theory of that feeling inspired by Durkheim and
Marx, then derives other theories to answer a range of questions:
why we like to make ourselves orderly (in Chapter Three s theory of
identity and commitment), why create shared orders of meaning (in
Chapter Four s theory of culture); how we create those orders
collaboratively through conversation (Chapter Five), and also
through narrative, symbolic, and ritualistic formats (Chapter Six),
and how orders of meaning are created in response to social
structural position (Chapter Seven). In the end, this book shows
how our sense of order both integrates and segregates us into
productive associations with one another. And so, Explaining
Culture is able to explain two patterns common to all growth:
expansion and centralization. We see how our desire for novelty
disperses us for resources, and that for familiarity draws us
together to create meaningful order from them. Indeed, this book
may offer a new approach to answering one of the most basic
questions in both social and natural science: the question of how
organic systems like society are created and maintained. Explaining
Culture is an important new step in answering our most basic
questions about culture, social interaction, and the emergence of
order. The unique contribution of this work is in identifying the
determinants of meaningfulness, and the ways we make the world
meaningful by ordering it. Our valuing of order is rarely mentioned
in sociology, but this book shows how it is the key influence in
how we order ourselves and each other.
This book is about our appreciation for order and meaningfulness.
It offers a new theory of that feeling inspired by Durkheim and
Marx, then derives other theories to answer a range of questions:
why we like to make ourselves orderly (in Chapter Three's theory of
identity and commitment), why create shared orders of meaning (in
Chapter Four's theory of culture); how we create those orders
collaboratively through conversation (Chapter Five), and also
through narrative, symbolic, and ritualistic formats (Chapter Six),
and how orders of meaning are created in response to social
structural position (Chapter Seven). In the end, this book shows
how our sense of order both integrates and segregates us into
productive associations with one another. And so, Explaining
Culture is able to explain two patterns common to all growth:
expansion and centralization. We see how our desire for novelty
disperses us for resources, and that for familiarity draws us
together to create meaningful order from them. Indeed, this book
may offer a new approach to answering one of the most basic
questions in both social and natural science: the question of how
organic systems like society are created and maintained. Explaining
Culture is an important new step in answering our most basic
questions about culture, social interaction, and the emergence of
order. The unique contribution of this work is in identifying the
determinants of meaningfulness, and the ways we make the world
meaningful by ordering it. Our valuing of order is rarely mentioned
in sociology, but this book shows how it is the key influence in
how we order ourselves and each other.
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