Against Essentialism: A Theory of Culture and Society

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Harvard University Press, 2009 - 398 lappuses
Against Essentialism presents a sociological theory of culture. This interdisciplinary and foundational work deals with basic issues common to current debates in social theory, including society, culture, meaning, truth, and communication. Stephan Fuchs argues that many mysteries about these concepts lose their mysteriousness when dynamic variations are introduced. Fuchs proposes a theory of culture and society that merges two core traditions--American network theory and European (Luhmannian) systems theory. His book distinguishes four major types of social observers--encounters, groups, organizations, and networks. Society takes place in these four modes of association. Each generates levels of observation linked with each other into a culture--the unity of these observations. Against Essentialism presents a groundbreaking new approach to the construction of society, culture, and personhood. The book invites both social scientists and philosophers to see what happens when essentialism is abandoned.
 

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Introduction
1
Some Elements of a Working Epistemology
67
3
111
Foundations of Culture
138
Encounters Groups
191
Networks
251
191
360
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Stephan Fuchs is Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Virginia.

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