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Chargement... Cultural Theory (Political Cultures)par Michael Thompson
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Why do people want what they want? Why does one person see the world as a place to control, while another feels controlled by the world? A useful theory of culture, the authors contend, should start with these questions, and the answers, given different historical conditions, should apply equally well to people of all times, places, and walks of life.Taking their cue from the pioneering work of anthropologist Mary Douglas, the authors of Cultural Theory have created a typology of five ways of life'egalitarianism, fatalism, individualism, hierarchy, and autonomy'to serve as an analytic tool in examining people, culture, and politics. They then show how cultural theorists can develop large numbers of falsifiable propositions.Drawing on parables, poetry, case studies, fiction, and the Great Books, the authors illustrate how cultural biases and social relationships interact in particular ways to yield life patterns that are viable, sustainable, and ultimately, changeable under certain conditions. Figures throughout the book show the dynamic quality of these ways of life and specifically illustrate the role of surprise in effecting small- and large-scale change.The authors compare Cultural Theory with the thought of master social theorists from Montesquieu to Stinchcombe and then reanalyze the classic works in the political culture tradition from Almond and Verba to Pye. Demonstrating that there is more to social life than hierarchy and individualism, the authors offer evidence from earlier studies showing that the addition of egalitarianism and fatalism facilitates cross-national comparisons. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Admittedly some interesting models to be toyed around with, perhaps to generate ideas, but nothing revolutionary or particularly useful to any method or tradition of research.
Disgusting, embarrassing mis-readings, mis-interpretations and strawmen of other positions/thinkers. E.g. one chapter includes a painful two paragraph blatant misreading of Weber's "Protestant Ethic."
Attending throughout is a definition of "functional" which is somehow manages to be simultaneously vacuous, trivial, and paradoxically circular, all to hilarious effect if the reader can convince themself to read this like a work of satire (which is the only way to endure the entire work). ( )