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Sep 1, 2017 · Culture A shared set of ideas, norms, and behaviors common to a group of people inhabiting a geographic. location. Cultural change Changes in ideas, norms, and behaviors of a group of people (or ...
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The litmus test for both culture. and change is that the...
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- Moral reenchantment
- Epistemic rift
- Patriarchal supersession
- Racial recognition
- The combinatorics of culture in transitions to modernity
- The analytics of cultural causality in transitions to modernity
- Causal image 1: Semiotic mechanisms
How did cultural dynamics help bring about the societies we now recognize as modern? This article constructs seven distinct models for how structures of signification and social meaning participated in the transitions to modernity in the West and, in some of the models, across the globe. Our models address: (1) the spread, via imitation, of modern ...
According to this model, pre-modern societies were characterized—culturally at least—by an overarching religious meaning-system that endowed social life with sacrality, order, and sense, and anchored the lives and purposes of pre-modern persons. Modernity overthrows this meaning system, and puts in its place myriad meaning-systems that come to comp...
In this model, the fundamental break that inaugurates the modern is a break in social epistemology: certain influential elites, and eventually, large sections of the population, reconstitute their worldview. In the new, modern worldview, the natural, the human, and the divine become separated (Latour 1993). Inquiry into the advent, triumph, and soc...
In this model, modernity emerges when the symbolic power of father-rule evident in patriarchal politics is converted into a symbolic contract among brothers that constitutes the ideological backing of the emergent modern state. Patriarchal patrimonial rule, which rests on the allegiance that subjects— themselves fathers to whom is delegated the pre...
In this model, it is the recognition of the non-modern, non-Western, “traditional” or “exotic” Other that supplies the basis for Western peoples to conceive of themselves as “modern.” People in the West become or start acting modern when they see themselves in contrast to what they construe as traditional, primitive, or exotic (e.g., “Oriental”). T...
Whence modernity, then? Culturally speaking, one response is synthetic, and it goes like so: At its origins, the transition to modernity involves the construal and invention of an elite, white, male cadre of individuals whose perceived faculties and performances become the legitimating basis for reconstituting social life itself.9 The initial colon...
We set forth above one possible synthetic road forward for analysts of transitions to modernity. But by describing the seven pillars, we also intend to make broad, cultural-theoretic accounts of modernity into a set of articulated, and ultimately empirically identifiable, models about how meaning and signification mattered in the transitions to mod...
In structural linguistics,12 a sign consists of a signifier (a written mark or a sound) and a signified (the concept to which it points). In semiotics more broadly conceived, virtually any object, gesture, image, or utterance can serve as a signifier insofar as meaning is conventionally attributed to it. Signifiers point to concepts or notions (sig...
The litmus test for both culture. and change is that the large majority members of the society recognize the cultural or change-. driven item, even if not all these members adopt the item or even ...
This chapter examines the development of a cultural studies perspective in social theory and sociology. The concept ‘society’ refers generally to assemblages of people, while ‘culture’ refers to assemblages of meanings and meaning-making processes. This chapter looks at Enlightenment and modernist theories of knowledge, most ...
Jul 1, 2018 · 15.1 Culture in the Study of Social Pr ogress. Any project of social progress is likely to involve significant cultural. change, transforming people’ s identities, aspirations, loyalties ...
Cultural knowledge is, at minimum, shared meanings about the world. I follow Bohm (1989) in the view that meaning includes “significance, purpose, intention and value” and “is inseparably connected with infor-mation” (p. 43). Information entails putting form into something—to in-form—and that something is meaning.
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argues, something at stake in cultural studies that differentiates it from other subject areas. For Hall, what is at stake is the connection that cultural studies seeks to make to mat-ters of power and cultural politics. That is, to an exploration of representations of and ‘for’ marginalized social groups and the need for cultural change.
