Mario Diani and Doug McAdam (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199251780
- eISBN:
- 9780191599057
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199251789.001.0001
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Illustrates relational approaches to the study of social movements and collective action. Contributors analyse most recent developments in the analysis of the role of networks as facilitators or ...
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Illustrates relational approaches to the study of social movements and collective action. Contributors analyse most recent developments in the analysis of the role of networks as facilitators or constraints of individual recruitment, various forms of interorganizational networks, and the relationship between social networks and the political context in which social movements operate. They also relate the growing attention to social networks by social movement analysis to broader theoretical debates. Both quantitative and qualitative network analysis are considered, and attention is paid to the time dimension and the evolution of networks, through both simulation models and empirical data. Empirical chapters cover both contemporary and historical episodes of collective action, in reference to authoritarian as well as progressive, left‐libertarian movements. Chapters focusing on individual networks specify different effects of network embeddedness over participation in different types of collective action (Passy, Anheier). Interorganizational relations are explored by looking at leadership dynamics (Diani), the relationship between categorical traits and network position within coalitions (Ansell), and the role of individuals in linking different organizations both synchronically and diachronically (Osa). Network approaches to the political process illustrate shifts in alliance and conflict networks at a time of regime change (Tilly and Wood), the evolution of social networks during protest cycles (Oliver and Myers), and the role of local elites in shaping protest networks in the community (Broadbent). Theoretical chapters discuss network perspectives on social movements in relation to recent theoretical developments in rational choice theory (Gould), cultural analysis (Mische), and the analysis of social mechanisms (McAdam). A radical case is also made for a reorientation of the whole social movement agenda along network lines (Diani).Less
Illustrates relational approaches to the study of social movements and collective action. Contributors analyse most recent developments in the analysis of the role of networks as facilitators or constraints of individual recruitment, various forms of interorganizational networks, and the relationship between social networks and the political context in which social movements operate. They also relate the growing attention to social networks by social movement analysis to broader theoretical debates. Both quantitative and qualitative network analysis are considered, and attention is paid to the time dimension and the evolution of networks, through both simulation models and empirical data. Empirical chapters cover both contemporary and historical episodes of collective action, in reference to authoritarian as well as progressive, left‐libertarian movements. Chapters focusing on individual networks specify different effects of network embeddedness over participation in different types of collective action (Passy, Anheier). Interorganizational relations are explored by looking at leadership dynamics (Diani), the relationship between categorical traits and network position within coalitions (Ansell), and the role of individuals in linking different organizations both synchronically and diachronically (Osa). Network approaches to the political process illustrate shifts in alliance and conflict networks at a time of regime change (Tilly and Wood), the evolution of social networks during protest cycles (Oliver and Myers), and the role of local elites in shaping protest networks in the community (Broadbent). Theoretical chapters discuss network perspectives on social movements in relation to recent theoretical developments in rational choice theory (Gould), cultural analysis (Mische), and the analysis of social mechanisms (McAdam). A radical case is also made for a reorientation of the whole social movement agenda along network lines (Diani).
Ann Mische
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199251780
- eISBN:
- 9780191599057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199251789.003.0011
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
In dialogue with recent developments in cultural sociology, this chapter looks at the forms of discourse generated by movement activists in response to the multiple relations in which they are ...
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In dialogue with recent developments in cultural sociology, this chapter looks at the forms of discourse generated by movement activists in response to the multiple relations in which they are involved. Networks are reinterpreted as multiple, cross‐cutting sets of social relations sustained by conversational dynamics within social settings. They are at the same time the location for the development of movement solidarities and for the transmission of messages, identity, etc. across movements. The chapter identifies several conversational mechanisms that characterize the process of network construction and reproduction. It also introduces a technique, Galois lattices, to map the complexity of conjunctures of actors and events in a dynamic way.Less
In dialogue with recent developments in cultural sociology, this chapter looks at the forms of discourse generated by movement activists in response to the multiple relations in which they are involved. Networks are reinterpreted as multiple, cross‐cutting sets of social relations sustained by conversational dynamics within social settings. They are at the same time the location for the development of movement solidarities and for the transmission of messages, identity, etc. across movements. The chapter identifies several conversational mechanisms that characterize the process of network construction and reproduction. It also introduces a technique, Galois lattices, to map the complexity of conjunctures of actors and events in a dynamic way.
Thanh V. Tran
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- May 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780195325089
- eISBN:
- 9780199864515
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195325089.003.0006
- Subject:
- Social Work, Research and Evaluation
In comparative research — whether it is cross-cultural, cross-national, or multigroup comparison — the assumption of measurement equivalence is crucially important. If nonequivalent measures were ...
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In comparative research — whether it is cross-cultural, cross-national, or multigroup comparison — the assumption of measurement equivalence is crucially important. If nonequivalent measures were used, the outcomes would be seriously biased. Equivalence is the fundamental issue in cross-cultural research and evaluation. A cross-cultural comparison can be misleading for two reasons: (1) comparison is made using different attributes and (2) comparison is made using different scale units. But even when the problems of equivalence in attributes and scale units are resolved, it does not warrant a valid cross-cultural comparison. In every step of the research process, the researcher must ensure that equivalence in concept, operationalization, methods, analysis, and interpretation receive the same attention.Less
In comparative research — whether it is cross-cultural, cross-national, or multigroup comparison — the assumption of measurement equivalence is crucially important. If nonequivalent measures were used, the outcomes would be seriously biased. Equivalence is the fundamental issue in cross-cultural research and evaluation. A cross-cultural comparison can be misleading for two reasons: (1) comparison is made using different attributes and (2) comparison is made using different scale units. But even when the problems of equivalence in attributes and scale units are resolved, it does not warrant a valid cross-cultural comparison. In every step of the research process, the researcher must ensure that equivalence in concept, operationalization, methods, analysis, and interpretation receive the same attention.
Doug McAdam
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- November 2003
- ISBN:
- 9780199251780
- eISBN:
- 9780191599057
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0199251789.003.0012
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics
Assesses the limitations of the structural paradigm for the investigation of the network‐participation link, and invokes a greater role for cultural analysis in the identification of recruitment and ...
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Assesses the limitations of the structural paradigm for the investigation of the network‐participation link, and invokes a greater role for cultural analysis in the identification of recruitment and mobilization mechanisms. This general point is illustrated with reference to three specific ‘facts’ regarding the origins of protest and contention, conventionally associated with the standard structuralist argument: prior social ties as a basis for movement recruitment; established social settings as the locus of movement emergence; the spread of movements along existing lines of interaction. For each of these cases, the author identifies social mechanisms, which combine structural and cultural elements. Rather than rejecting the formalization and the quest for systematic patterns, to which network concepts and methods have so much contributed in recent years, the author calls for a more dynamic integration of cultural analysis and structuralist research strategies.Less
Assesses the limitations of the structural paradigm for the investigation of the network‐participation link, and invokes a greater role for cultural analysis in the identification of recruitment and mobilization mechanisms. This general point is illustrated with reference to three specific ‘facts’ regarding the origins of protest and contention, conventionally associated with the standard structuralist argument: prior social ties as a basis for movement recruitment; established social settings as the locus of movement emergence; the spread of movements along existing lines of interaction. For each of these cases, the author identifies social mechanisms, which combine structural and cultural elements. Rather than rejecting the formalization and the quest for systematic patterns, to which network concepts and methods have so much contributed in recent years, the author calls for a more dynamic integration of cultural analysis and structuralist research strategies.
Giles Gunn and Carl Gutierrez-Jones (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520098701
- eISBN:
- 9780520943797
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520098701.001.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Anthropology, Global
The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic “misshaping” ...
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The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic “misshaping” of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations worldwide. Journalists and scholars are now trying to understand what happened, and this book explores the role of culture and rhetoric in this process of geopolitical transformation. What difference do cultural concepts and values make to the cognitive and emotional weather of which, at various levels, international politics is both consequence and perceived corrective? The scholars in this multidisciplinary book bring the tools of cultural analysis to the profound ongoing debate about how geopolitics is mapped and what determines its governance.Less
The attempt by the George W. Bush administration to reshape world order, especially but not exclusively after September 11, 2001, increasingly appears to have resulted in a catastrophic “misshaping” of geopolitics in the wake of bungled campaigns in the Middle East and their many reverberations worldwide. Journalists and scholars are now trying to understand what happened, and this book explores the role of culture and rhetoric in this process of geopolitical transformation. What difference do cultural concepts and values make to the cognitive and emotional weather of which, at various levels, international politics is both consequence and perceived corrective? The scholars in this multidisciplinary book bring the tools of cultural analysis to the profound ongoing debate about how geopolitics is mapped and what determines its governance.
G. E. R. Lloyd
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199567874
- eISBN:
- 9780191721649
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199567874.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy
This introductory chapter outlines the strategy of the book as a whole. This book is an investigation of the different conceptions that have been entertained in eight major areas of human experience: ...
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This introductory chapter outlines the strategy of the book as a whole. This book is an investigation of the different conceptions that have been entertained in eight major areas of human experience: philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion, and science. One recurrent theme is the different ways in which those intellectual disciplines have developed in different ancient and modern societies and the roles of elites in such processes, both positive ones, in encouraging the professionalization of the investigation, and negative, when elites lay down restrictive definitions of the subject-matter concerned. A second is the need to challenge modern Western assumptions on the nature of each discipline. A third is the struggle between different disciplines for hegemonic status.Less
This introductory chapter outlines the strategy of the book as a whole. This book is an investigation of the different conceptions that have been entertained in eight major areas of human experience: philosophy, mathematics, history, medicine, art, law, religion, and science. One recurrent theme is the different ways in which those intellectual disciplines have developed in different ancient and modern societies and the roles of elites in such processes, both positive ones, in encouraging the professionalization of the investigation, and negative, when elites lay down restrictive definitions of the subject-matter concerned. A second is the need to challenge modern Western assumptions on the nature of each discipline. A third is the struggle between different disciplines for hegemonic status.
J. Cheryl Exum
- Published in print:
- 2000
- Published Online:
- April 2004
- ISBN:
- 9780198263913
- eISBN:
- 9780191601187
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/0198263910.003.0004
- Subject:
- Religion, Biblical Studies
This is the fourth of five chapters on the Old Testament and the reader, and reviews feminist study of the Old Testament. It describes feminist criticism as one of the most significant intellectual ...
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This is the fourth of five chapters on the Old Testament and the reader, and reviews feminist study of the Old Testament. It describes feminist criticism as one of the most significant intellectual developments of the twentieth century, and notes that biblical interpretation of this kind is not likely to be disinterested although feminist critics are more likely than most to admit their ideological presuppositions. These presuppositions, like those of other postmodern approaches, provide a compelling challenge to the dominant paradigms of ‘objective’ biblical scholarship through their recognition of the constructedness of history, gender, and self. Many and various examples of the vast and growing biblical feminist criticism are discussed through the chapter, looking, among other things, at the different methodological approaches taken, the strategies employed for getting at women's perspectives in androcentric texts, the search for traces of women's discourses in biblical texts, intertextual and cross‐cultural analysis, and gender studies.Less
This is the fourth of five chapters on the Old Testament and the reader, and reviews feminist study of the Old Testament. It describes feminist criticism as one of the most significant intellectual developments of the twentieth century, and notes that biblical interpretation of this kind is not likely to be disinterested although feminist critics are more likely than most to admit their ideological presuppositions. These presuppositions, like those of other postmodern approaches, provide a compelling challenge to the dominant paradigms of ‘objective’ biblical scholarship through their recognition of the constructedness of history, gender, and self. Many and various examples of the vast and growing biblical feminist criticism are discussed through the chapter, looking, among other things, at the different methodological approaches taken, the strategies employed for getting at women's perspectives in androcentric texts, the search for traces of women's discourses in biblical texts, intertextual and cross‐cultural analysis, and gender studies.
Christian Smith
- Published in print:
- 2003
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780195162028
- eISBN:
- 9780199849673
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162028.003.0006
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
This chapter analyses a shift in contemporary American sociology to the study of culture and cultural analysis. This shift or return of culture in sociology represents something of an intellectual ...
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This chapter analyses a shift in contemporary American sociology to the study of culture and cultural analysis. This shift or return of culture in sociology represents something of an intellectual pendulum swing. Talcott Parsons's structural functionalism dominated the middle decades of the 20th century. It taught that human societies are regulated and coordinated from the top down by their cultural systems and that, from the bottom up, individual actors are oriented and guided by cultural values that they internalize through socialization. In the mid-1960s and 1970s, however, Parsons's structural functionalism was attacked and displaced as the dominant framework in the discipline. Various developments within and outside of sociology had helped prepare the intellectual ground for new and creative sociological scholarship that began to employ culture in ways more sophisticated than structural functionalism.Less
This chapter analyses a shift in contemporary American sociology to the study of culture and cultural analysis. This shift or return of culture in sociology represents something of an intellectual pendulum swing. Talcott Parsons's structural functionalism dominated the middle decades of the 20th century. It taught that human societies are regulated and coordinated from the top down by their cultural systems and that, from the bottom up, individual actors are oriented and guided by cultural values that they internalize through socialization. In the mid-1960s and 1970s, however, Parsons's structural functionalism was attacked and displaced as the dominant framework in the discipline. Various developments within and outside of sociology had helped prepare the intellectual ground for new and creative sociological scholarship that began to employ culture in ways more sophisticated than structural functionalism.
Ann Davies
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9781846318221
- eISBN:
- 9781846317750
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/UPO9781846317750
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This study ties contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and ...
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This study ties contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish cultural texts; yet despite a convergence in study between cultural geography (and cultural studies more widely) and cultural texts themselves, this has made little impact to date within the area of contemporary Spanish cultural studies. Yet Spain's varied terrain, with complex negotiations between rural, urban and coastal (negotiations that have on occasion spilled over into political and violent conflict), and perhaps its very lack of a contemporary landscape tradition familiar to British and German cultural studies, offer the opportunity for fresh insights into questions of landscape, space, and place. Drawing on case studies from contemporary Spanish film and literature, the author explores the themes of memory and forgetting, nationalism and terrorism, crime and detection, gender, tourism and immigration, investigating what it means to think of space and places in specifically Spanish terms.Less
This study ties contemporary cultural geography with contemporary Spanish culture. The field of cultural geography has grown both extensively and rapidly, as has the field of cultural analysis and debate on Spanish cultural texts; yet despite a convergence in study between cultural geography (and cultural studies more widely) and cultural texts themselves, this has made little impact to date within the area of contemporary Spanish cultural studies. Yet Spain's varied terrain, with complex negotiations between rural, urban and coastal (negotiations that have on occasion spilled over into political and violent conflict), and perhaps its very lack of a contemporary landscape tradition familiar to British and German cultural studies, offer the opportunity for fresh insights into questions of landscape, space, and place. Drawing on case studies from contemporary Spanish film and literature, the author explores the themes of memory and forgetting, nationalism and terrorism, crime and detection, gender, tourism and immigration, investigating what it means to think of space and places in specifically Spanish terms.
Michael W. Jennings
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780691135106
- eISBN:
- 9781400846788
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- DOI:
- 10.23943/princeton/9780691135106.003.0011
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
This chapter offers a careful exposition of themes and debates in Weimar Kulturkritik, or cultural criticism, focusing on its two greatest exemplars, Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer. At first ...
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This chapter offers a careful exposition of themes and debates in Weimar Kulturkritik, or cultural criticism, focusing on its two greatest exemplars, Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer. At first tentatively, and then beginning in 1926 with a new focus and resolve, Benjamin and Kracauer set out to reinvent German cultural criticism as a form. Their writings do not simply mirror the new set of preoccupations and circumstances that characterize cultural criticism in the Weimar Republic: no other writers were so instrumental in setting its agenda and defining its formal means and strategies. Kracauer and Benjamin virtually invented the criticism of popular culture. In books and essays such as One Way Street and “Surrealism” (Benjamin) and “The Mass Ornament” and “Photography” (Kracauer), the two writers reinvent cultural analysis as a specific form of the critique of the new urban metropolis. And in doing so, they formulate what is arguably the most compelling theory of modernity ever to arise from cultural criticism.Less
This chapter offers a careful exposition of themes and debates in Weimar Kulturkritik, or cultural criticism, focusing on its two greatest exemplars, Walter Benjamin and Siegfried Kracauer. At first tentatively, and then beginning in 1926 with a new focus and resolve, Benjamin and Kracauer set out to reinvent German cultural criticism as a form. Their writings do not simply mirror the new set of preoccupations and circumstances that characterize cultural criticism in the Weimar Republic: no other writers were so instrumental in setting its agenda and defining its formal means and strategies. Kracauer and Benjamin virtually invented the criticism of popular culture. In books and essays such as One Way Street and “Surrealism” (Benjamin) and “The Mass Ornament” and “Photography” (Kracauer), the two writers reinvent cultural analysis as a specific form of the critique of the new urban metropolis. And in doing so, they formulate what is arguably the most compelling theory of modernity ever to arise from cultural criticism.
Arthur Kleinman
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520209657
- eISBN:
- 9780520919471
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520209657.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Medical Anthropology
This chapter studies suffering and how it can be included in an ethnography of interpersonal experience. It first studies an effective strategy used in medical anthropology, which demonstrates how a ...
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This chapter studies suffering and how it can be included in an ethnography of interpersonal experience. It first studies an effective strategy used in medical anthropology, which demonstrates how a patient's illness convictions and complaints reproduce a certain moral domain. The chapter introduces the anthropologists' interpretive dilemma and enumerates the categories for the ethnography of experience. Next, it examines the suffering that is associated with illness and its social sources, and presents a case study of a person who has experienced great suffering. From there the chapter looks at suffering in Chinese culture and the limitations of a cultural analysis on suffering.Less
This chapter studies suffering and how it can be included in an ethnography of interpersonal experience. It first studies an effective strategy used in medical anthropology, which demonstrates how a patient's illness convictions and complaints reproduce a certain moral domain. The chapter introduces the anthropologists' interpretive dilemma and enumerates the categories for the ethnography of experience. Next, it examines the suffering that is associated with illness and its social sources, and presents a case study of a person who has experienced great suffering. From there the chapter looks at suffering in Chinese culture and the limitations of a cultural analysis on suffering.
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195373707
- eISBN:
- 9780190226589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195373707.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History, Comparative Law
Chapter 1 furnishes an overview of cultural analysis and the study of halakhah and the Jewish tradition through a cultural analysis framework. It opens with a discussion of the emerging focus on law ...
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Chapter 1 furnishes an overview of cultural analysis and the study of halakhah and the Jewish tradition through a cultural analysis framework. It opens with a discussion of the emerging focus on law and cultural analysis in the academic world generally and identifies the salient themes of a cultural analysis approach to law. These themes stress the importance of power relationships, environment, cultural dissent, and multiple values in the development of law. Cultural analysis also relies on the narrative model because the lawmaking process is best served with stories representing a broad range of perspectives. This discussion emphasizes that law and culture should not be viewed as two distinct entities but rather as embodiments of one another. This chapter also introduces the book’s central theme: how a cultural analysis paradigm provides an ideal way of understanding the historical development and ongoing evolution of halakhah and the mesorah.Less
Chapter 1 furnishes an overview of cultural analysis and the study of halakhah and the Jewish tradition through a cultural analysis framework. It opens with a discussion of the emerging focus on law and cultural analysis in the academic world generally and identifies the salient themes of a cultural analysis approach to law. These themes stress the importance of power relationships, environment, cultural dissent, and multiple values in the development of law. Cultural analysis also relies on the narrative model because the lawmaking process is best served with stories representing a broad range of perspectives. This discussion emphasizes that law and culture should not be viewed as two distinct entities but rather as embodiments of one another. This chapter also introduces the book’s central theme: how a cultural analysis paradigm provides an ideal way of understanding the historical development and ongoing evolution of halakhah and the mesorah.
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195373707
- eISBN:
- 9780190226589
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195373707.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History, Comparative Law
A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and culture are independent of one ...
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A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and culture are independent of one another. In reality, however, much of Jewish culture has a basis in Jewish law. Similarly, Jewish law produces Jewish culture. A cultural analysis paradigm provides a useful way of understanding the Jewish tradition as the product of both legal precepts and cultural elements. This paradigm sees law and culture as inextricably intertwined and historically specific. This perspective also emphasizes the human element of law’s composition and the role of existing power dynamics in shaping Jewish law. In light of this inevitable intersection between culture and law, this book argues that Jewish culture is shallow unless it is grounded in Jewish law. It develops and applies a cultural analysis paradigm to the Jewish tradition that departs from the understanding of Jewish law solely as the embodiment of Divine command. Its paradigm explains why both law and culture must matter to those interested in forging meaningful Jewish identity and transmitting the tradition.Less
A myth exists that Jews can embrace the cultural components of Judaism without appreciating the legal aspects of the Jewish tradition. This myth suggests that law and culture are independent of one another. In reality, however, much of Jewish culture has a basis in Jewish law. Similarly, Jewish law produces Jewish culture. A cultural analysis paradigm provides a useful way of understanding the Jewish tradition as the product of both legal precepts and cultural elements. This paradigm sees law and culture as inextricably intertwined and historically specific. This perspective also emphasizes the human element of law’s composition and the role of existing power dynamics in shaping Jewish law. In light of this inevitable intersection between culture and law, this book argues that Jewish culture is shallow unless it is grounded in Jewish law. It develops and applies a cultural analysis paradigm to the Jewish tradition that departs from the understanding of Jewish law solely as the embodiment of Divine command. Its paradigm explains why both law and culture must matter to those interested in forging meaningful Jewish identity and transmitting the tradition.
Patricia L. Sunderland and Rita M. Denny
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199576746
- eISBN:
- 9780191724916
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199576746.003.0007
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Marketing
This chapter uses the dual roles of participant and outsider to contextualize the production of a particular market research practice, consumer segmentation, in real time. The goal is to show that ...
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This chapter uses the dual roles of participant and outsider to contextualize the production of a particular market research practice, consumer segmentation, in real time. The goal is to show that while consumer segments exist as abstractions (and thus come to have a life of their own within marketing discourse and practice), their constitution and persistence occurs within a messy matrix of social relationships, with attendant obligations, attachments, and desires. This is an examination of ways consumer segmentation practices enmesh and sometimes ensnare those closest to their production and whose persistence is grounded by embedded cultural assumptions about consumption. By focusing on the microcosm of interactions — the phone calls, e-mails, conversations, report texts — it hopes to illuminate the fodder with which practice and ideology are co-constituted in real time.Less
This chapter uses the dual roles of participant and outsider to contextualize the production of a particular market research practice, consumer segmentation, in real time. The goal is to show that while consumer segments exist as abstractions (and thus come to have a life of their own within marketing discourse and practice), their constitution and persistence occurs within a messy matrix of social relationships, with attendant obligations, attachments, and desires. This is an examination of ways consumer segmentation practices enmesh and sometimes ensnare those closest to their production and whose persistence is grounded by embedded cultural assumptions about consumption. By focusing on the microcosm of interactions — the phone calls, e-mails, conversations, report texts — it hopes to illuminate the fodder with which practice and ideology are co-constituted in real time.
Paisley Livingston
- Published in print:
- 1997
- Published Online:
- October 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780198159216
- eISBN:
- 9780191673566
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198159216.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Film, Media, and Cultural Studies
This chapter shows that cinematic authorship is still a controversial topic in studios. There are some scholars that allow authorship in independent film production but not in studio-produced works. ...
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This chapter shows that cinematic authorship is still a controversial topic in studios. There are some scholars that allow authorship in independent film production but not in studio-produced works. Paisley Livingston's goal is to defend the idea of solitary artistic genius which is the fundamental unit of cultural analysis. Definitions of what an author is, is noted in this chapter. The chapter also looks at the concept of a cinematic author. One particular definition of what a cinematic author is stands out. A cinematic author is an agent who intentionally makes a cinematic utterance. As far as whether there are real or unreal authors, there is a complex debate about it. There are two reasons why the cinema is suited to an anti-realist notion of authorship: ontological and epistemological.Less
This chapter shows that cinematic authorship is still a controversial topic in studios. There are some scholars that allow authorship in independent film production but not in studio-produced works. Paisley Livingston's goal is to defend the idea of solitary artistic genius which is the fundamental unit of cultural analysis. Definitions of what an author is, is noted in this chapter. The chapter also looks at the concept of a cinematic author. One particular definition of what a cinematic author is stands out. A cinematic author is an agent who intentionally makes a cinematic utterance. As far as whether there are real or unreal authors, there is a complex debate about it. There are two reasons why the cinema is suited to an anti-realist notion of authorship: ontological and epistemological.
Steffen Merten
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780804785952
- eISBN:
- 9780804789219
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804785952.003.0004
- Subject:
- Political Science, International Relations and Politics
This chapter describes how data fusion enhances the analytical capability of cultural analysts by using the visual analyst theory in conjunction with ongoing technological software advances in data ...
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This chapter describes how data fusion enhances the analytical capability of cultural analysts by using the visual analyst theory in conjunction with ongoing technological software advances in data fusion. The field of cultural analyses is significantly contributing to COIN doctrine. However, software advances must also be accompanied by two caveats. The first is, no matter how powerful or versatile the technology is a thorough understanding of the social system depends on expert analyst’s opinion that is deeply familiar with a culture’s fundamentals. Second, we must refrain from reinventing the wheel by utilizing existing sources of social data ranging from deployed company intelligence officers to civil affairs teams. In conclusion, by harnessing technology to fuse geospatial, relational, and temporal data, we can enhance the field of cultural analysis to further empower the war fighter’s mission of defeating contemporary and future insurgency.Less
This chapter describes how data fusion enhances the analytical capability of cultural analysts by using the visual analyst theory in conjunction with ongoing technological software advances in data fusion. The field of cultural analyses is significantly contributing to COIN doctrine. However, software advances must also be accompanied by two caveats. The first is, no matter how powerful or versatile the technology is a thorough understanding of the social system depends on expert analyst’s opinion that is deeply familiar with a culture’s fundamentals. Second, we must refrain from reinventing the wheel by utilizing existing sources of social data ranging from deployed company intelligence officers to civil affairs teams. In conclusion, by harnessing technology to fuse geospatial, relational, and temporal data, we can enhance the field of cultural analysis to further empower the war fighter’s mission of defeating contemporary and future insurgency.
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195373707
- eISBN:
- 9780190226589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195373707.003.0011
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History, Comparative Law
Chapter 10 illustrates how the lessons of cultural analysis can be applied to inform and shape Jewish identity and to enhance the discussion concerning the survival of Judaism and the Jewish people. ...
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Chapter 10 illustrates how the lessons of cultural analysis can be applied to inform and shape Jewish identity and to enhance the discussion concerning the survival of Judaism and the Jewish people. These lessons focus on the importance of the intersection between law and culture. The discussion illuminates how the mesorah negotiates issues involving authenticity and particularity of the tradition on the one hand, and cultural fluidity and pluralism on the other. Drawing from the theory and insights of cultural analysis, this chapter demonstrates how the explicit synergy between Jewish law and culture can facilitate important conversations for Jews in the United States and elsewhere. It emphasizes the importance of creating a strong middle ground among Jews and the role of both halakhah and Jewish narrative (known as aggadah) in effective Jewish education.Less
Chapter 10 illustrates how the lessons of cultural analysis can be applied to inform and shape Jewish identity and to enhance the discussion concerning the survival of Judaism and the Jewish people. These lessons focus on the importance of the intersection between law and culture. The discussion illuminates how the mesorah negotiates issues involving authenticity and particularity of the tradition on the one hand, and cultural fluidity and pluralism on the other. Drawing from the theory and insights of cultural analysis, this chapter demonstrates how the explicit synergy between Jewish law and culture can facilitate important conversations for Jews in the United States and elsewhere. It emphasizes the importance of creating a strong middle ground among Jews and the role of both halakhah and Jewish narrative (known as aggadah) in effective Jewish education.
Catherine Driscoll
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813034249
- eISBN:
- 9780813038421
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813034249.003.0011
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
The vital terms of modernist cultural analysis and debate remain so because they constantly need to be reestablished. Cultural studies as it is defined and practiced at the beginning of the ...
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The vital terms of modernist cultural analysis and debate remain so because they constantly need to be reestablished. Cultural studies as it is defined and practiced at the beginning of the twenty-first century (at its best) takes “the new” as a task rather than a marvel, exploring the contemporaneity of culture as it is challenged and propelled by history and paying attention to the current, the ephemeral, and the marginal but always in relation to the equally modernist concept of a common culture. In combining this attention to how we live today with the modernist imperatives to, on the one hand, evaluate culture and, on the other, exhaustively document it, cultural studies is a perspective singularly attentive to the modernism that continues to define us. This chapter returns to what has so often been used as the exemplar, if not the definition, of modernism — namely, avant-garde art — and to the trouble with distinguishing between modernism and postmodernism.Less
The vital terms of modernist cultural analysis and debate remain so because they constantly need to be reestablished. Cultural studies as it is defined and practiced at the beginning of the twenty-first century (at its best) takes “the new” as a task rather than a marvel, exploring the contemporaneity of culture as it is challenged and propelled by history and paying attention to the current, the ephemeral, and the marginal but always in relation to the equally modernist concept of a common culture. In combining this attention to how we live today with the modernist imperatives to, on the one hand, evaluate culture and, on the other, exhaustively document it, cultural studies is a perspective singularly attentive to the modernism that continues to define us. This chapter returns to what has so often been used as the exemplar, if not the definition, of modernism — namely, avant-garde art — and to the trouble with distinguishing between modernism and postmodernism.
Wendy Bottero
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447300588
- eISBN:
- 9781447310945
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447300588.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Gerontology and Ageing
Class analysis is concerned with how patterns of advantage (and disadvantage) are transmitted and reproduced over time. However, the passage of time (such as the life-course transitions associated ...
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Class analysis is concerned with how patterns of advantage (and disadvantage) are transmitted and reproduced over time. However, the passage of time (such as the life-course transitions associated with ageing, cohort changes from one generation to the next, and longer-term socio-economic changes) makes the question of how class inequalities endure a complicated one. This chapter examines how change over time requires us to rethink the nature of class inequalities, by taking a closer look at the relationship between ‘class’ and culture, lifestyle and taste. It considers how social change in post-industrial societies has created a challenge for how we think about ‘class’, and led some to claim that ‘class is dead’. It then explores the counter-reaction by theorists who argue that ‘class’ today has a changed and increasingly cultural dynamic, with class inequalities reproduced through affluence and consumption practices and existing within processes of individualisation.Less
Class analysis is concerned with how patterns of advantage (and disadvantage) are transmitted and reproduced over time. However, the passage of time (such as the life-course transitions associated with ageing, cohort changes from one generation to the next, and longer-term socio-economic changes) makes the question of how class inequalities endure a complicated one. This chapter examines how change over time requires us to rethink the nature of class inequalities, by taking a closer look at the relationship between ‘class’ and culture, lifestyle and taste. It considers how social change in post-industrial societies has created a challenge for how we think about ‘class’, and led some to claim that ‘class is dead’. It then explores the counter-reaction by theorists who argue that ‘class’ today has a changed and increasingly cultural dynamic, with class inequalities reproduced through affluence and consumption practices and existing within processes of individualisation.
Roberta Rosenthal Kwall
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780195373707
- eISBN:
- 9780190226589
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195373707.003.0001
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History, Comparative Law
The introductory section lays the groundwork for the argument that cultural Judaism is a myth. It argues that Jewish law, known as halakhah, is similar to all law in that it is best understood in ...
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The introductory section lays the groundwork for the argument that cultural Judaism is a myth. It argues that Jewish law, known as halakhah, is similar to all law in that it is best understood in cultural terms through a paradigm known as cultural analysis. This paradigm rejects the view that law is objectively neutral and coherent and thus lacking a relationship to its surrounding cultural environment. This interrelationship between law and culture is clearly evidenced in the formation and application of the Jewish tradition, known as the mesorah, which includes both legal precepts and cultural elements. This section introduces the cultural analysis paradigm developed throughout the book and details the advantages of situating the mesorah within a cultural analysis framework. It also provides an overview of the book’s chapters.Less
The introductory section lays the groundwork for the argument that cultural Judaism is a myth. It argues that Jewish law, known as halakhah, is similar to all law in that it is best understood in cultural terms through a paradigm known as cultural analysis. This paradigm rejects the view that law is objectively neutral and coherent and thus lacking a relationship to its surrounding cultural environment. This interrelationship between law and culture is clearly evidenced in the formation and application of the Jewish tradition, known as the mesorah, which includes both legal precepts and cultural elements. This section introduces the cultural analysis paradigm developed throughout the book and details the advantages of situating the mesorah within a cultural analysis framework. It also provides an overview of the book’s chapters.
