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New Reading of Florian Znaniecki's Contribution to Classical Cultural Sociology

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Halas E.
Studia Socjologiczne
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2005
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issue 3(178)
5-34
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It is argued that a renewed reception of the works of the Polish and American scholar should be furthered by the cultural turn in sociology. If the new cultural sociology is to get firm grounds it should go beyond the reaction against structural-functional normativism in search of classic studies of cultural dynamics as those of Florian Znaniecki. The authoress examines the reasons for blurring the influence of Znaniecki on 20th century sociologists, including Talcott Parsons and Alfred Schütz, and presents an overall review of his contribution to cultural sociology.
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A NEW PERSPECTIVE OF SOCIAL THEORY. CONCERNING THE ASSUMPTIONS BEHIND JEFFREY ALEXANDER'S CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY

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Bartmanski D.
Kultura i Społeczeństwo
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2007
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vol. 51
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issue 3
19-40
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This paper is devoted to the cultural theory of an American sociologist, Jeffrey Alexander, who is currently regarded to be one of the most influential social theorists of our time. Educated at Harvard and Berkeley, he remained for some time under the influence of these institutions' intellectual authorities. Moreover, according to his own words, he is a child of the 1960s, a historical period which inspired his sociological sensibility. Alexander has nevertheless transgressed the intellectual atmosphere of that time. Although initially described by some sociologists as an exponent of so called neofunctionalism, he has consequently been strengthening his reputation of a versatile social theorist committed especially to building, as he calls it himself, 'a strong program in cultural sociology'. This approach has been developed by him in opposition to the traditional ideas of the sociology of culture and underscores the crucial importance and analytical autonomy of culture. It has become a prominent, even if off-beat, intellectual perspective which promises to provide the contemporary social sciences with a new impetus and put sociology itself right in the middle of the most compelling interdisciplinary debates of contemporary humanities.
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BIOGRAPHY AND FORM OF LIFE. TOWARD A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE INTERVIEWSBIOGRAPHY AND FORM OF LIFE. TOWARD A CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF NARRATIVE INTERVIEWS

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Binder W., Kurakin D.
Sociológia (Sociology)
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2019
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vol. 51
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issue 6
563 – 583
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This paper introduces the concept of form of life, socially shaped and shared meaning structures of actors situated in material contexts, as a tool for the cultural-sociological analysis of biographies and life trajectories. Following the principles of structural hermeneutics, such an analysis of life-forms treats the interview text as manifestation of a deeper holistic meaning structure, embodied in narratives, binaries and metaphors, without suppressing the contradictions and tensions inherent in every form of life. Finally, the empirical applicability of our approach is illustrated with examples from the qualitative strand of a broader longitudinal panel study as well as an in-depth case study.
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Relativní autonomie kultury v Alexanderově kulturní sociologii

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Skovajsa M.
Sociologický časopis. Czech Sociological Review
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2012
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vol. 48
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issue 2
225-247
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This article offers a critical discussion of the concept of the ‘relative autonomy of culture’ that is central to Jeffrey C. Alexander’s cultural sociology. It shows that, in Alexander’s work, the relative autonomy of culture is conceptualised in two different ways: first, as an analytical autonomy that is part of a multidimensional model of social action, and second, as the formal autonomy of a semiotic system that dominates in the more culturalist strand of Alexander’s work. The author claims that Alexander’s attempt to move in his work beyond a merely analytical autonomy of culture towards a fuller view of autonomy brings mixed results. Both concepts of the relative autonomy of culture assert an internal logic of culture, but the semiotic variant offers a much more developed account of what its internal structure is. However, the drawback of the semiotic view is that it tends towards the position of an absolute autonomy of culture or cultural idealism, which is difficult to reconcile with an adequate view of agency. The related proposal, first formulated by Anne Kane and endorsed by Alexander, to distinguish between the analytical and the concrete autonomy of culture is internally contradictory, for once culture becomes concretely enmeshed with social life, culture’s autonomy dissolves. The central weakness of the concept of the autonomy of culture is identified as the insufficiently developed explication of the internal mechanism through which culture and action are linked. Social theory has to do more to combine an analytical conception of culture, situated within a multidimensional framework of action, with a semiotic view of cultural structures.
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CULTURAL SOCIOLOGY: TRADITION AND NEW PERSPECTIVES (Socjologia kulturowa: tradycja i nowe perspektywy)

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Halas E.
Zagadnienia Naukoznawstwa
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2009
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vol. 45
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issue 2(180)
195-205
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The new programme of cultural sociology (as distinguished from sociology of culture) on the one hand, and cultural studies on the other, constitute a point of reference for an analysis of contemporary relevance of Florian Znaniecki's culturalism and his theory of cultural systems. Znaniecki's rejection of the terms of 'society' and 'culture' in general was associated with the transition to studies of the dynamics of cultural systems. The article shows the fundamental difference in the aims realized by praxis-oriented cultural studies, as well as studies of radical changes in culture (the cultural turn), in regard to the programme of cultural sciences. The links between modern cultural sociology, including strong programme of cultural sociology, and Znaniecki's culturalism are emphasized. This culturalism radically differs both from anthropological culturalism and from political culturalism, which leads to a policy of multiculturalism. One of important principles, common for modern cultural sociology and Znaniecki's culturalism, is the principle of autonomy of culture in regard to social systems. Arguments in favour of further development of the philosophy of culturalism and cultural theory in the sense proposed by Znaniecki are presented.
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