Author : Anthony Paul Cohen
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0415046165
Anthony Cohen explores the concept of community in social theory.
Author : Anthony P. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Communities
ISBN : 9781138136977
Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves as belonging to society. The emphasis on boundary is sensitive to the circumstances in which people become aware of the implications of belonging to a community, and describes how they symbolise and utilise these boundaries to give substance to their values and identities.
Author : A. P. Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,29 MB
Release : 1993
Category :
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Author : Anthony P. Cohen
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 2007
Category :
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Author : Anthony P. Cohen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 32,42 MB
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134947488
Anthony Cohen makes a distinct break with earlier approaches to the study of community, which treated the subject in largely structural terms. His view is interpretive and experiential, seeing the community as a cultural field with a complex of symbols whose meanings vary among its members. He delineates a concept applicable to local and ethnic communities through which people see themselves as belonging to society. The emphasis on boundary is sensitive to the circumstances in which people become aware of the implications of belonging to a community, and describes how they symbolise and utilise these boundaries to give substance to their values and identities.
Author : Ronelle Hutchinson
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 12,7 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Communities
ISBN :
Author : Gerard O'Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 29,36 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Regional planning
ISBN :
Author : Peter L. Berger
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 43,26 MB
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1453215468
A watershed event in the field of sociology, this text introduced “a major breakthrough in the sociology of knowledge and sociological theory generally” (George Simpson, American Sociological Review). In this seminal book, Peter L. Berger and Thomas Luckmann examine how knowledge forms and how it is preserved and altered within a society. Unlike earlier theorists and philosophers, Berger and Luckmann go beyond intellectual history and focus on commonsense, everyday knowledge—the proverbs, morals, values, and beliefs shared among ordinary people. When first published in 1966, this systematic, theoretical treatise introduced the term social construction,effectively creating a new thought and transforming Western philosophy.
Author : Judd A. Case
Publisher :
Page : 103 pages
File Size : 32,53 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Dissertations, Academic
ISBN :
Author : Jeffrey Andrew Barash
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 40,99 MB
Release : 2009-05-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0226036898
In 1933 eminent philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945) fled Nazi Germany for the United States. His fame in Europe having already been established through a public debate with Martin Heidegger in 1929, Cassirer would go on to become a noteworthy influence on American culture. His most important early writings focused on the symbol and symbolic interaction, exploring how human cultures—from early myth-based ones to our own modern, scientifically oriented time—have used symbols to mediate the basic forms of experience. Following this work, Cassirer extended his insights to encompass a broad spectrum of philosophical themes: from investigations into Western epistemological and scientific traditions to aesthetics and the philosophy of history to anthropology and political philosophy. Reflecting this diversity in Cassirer’s own work, The Symbolic Construction of Reality collects eleven essays by a wide range of contributors from different fields. Each essay analyzes a different aspect of his legacy, reassessing its significance for our contemporary world and bringing much-needed attention to this seminal thinker.
