Explaining Culture - The Social Pursuit of Subjective Order

This provocative book offers a new theory of culture with a unique focus on our aesthetic response to order and meaningfulness.

List of contents

Chapter One: Alienation and Anomia as a Basis for Theorizing Culture
Chapter Two: Knowledge-Based Affect and the Pleasures of Order
Chapter Three: Putting Our Selves in Order: An Epistemological Identity Theory
Chapter Four: The Social Pursuit of Meaningfulness: An Epistemological Theory of Culture
Chapter Five: The Pursuit of Meaningfulness Through: Epistemological Conversation
Chapter Six: Conditions for Community and Culture
Chapter Seven: Network Position, Knowledge-Based Affect, and Cultural Manipulation
Chapter Eight: Conclusion

About the author

Loren Demerath is associate professor and Chair of the Department of Sociology at Centenary College of Louisiana.

Product details

• Authors: Loren Demerath, Demerath Loren
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.12.2013
• EAN: 9780739190562
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-9056-2
• No. of pages: 166
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Sociology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social groups, Social and cultural anthropology, Human Geography, Social groups, communities and identities