New Directions in the Study of Culture

Wuthnow, Robert; Witten, Marsha G.

doi:10.1146/annurev.so.14.080188.000405

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“…By circumventing, avoiding, or delegitimizing background factors, they fail to clearly identify the public subject and the direct issue of representation. When this occurs, the media has participated in creating a public sphere in appearance only, a sphere that negates discussion of the, institutions, codes, morals, or statuses contained within it (Garnham 1992;Warner 1992;Wright 1993;Wuthnow and Witten 1988).…”

Section: Theory and Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Balancing Act? Cultural Representations of Work–Family Balance in the News Media

Greer

Peterson

2013

Sociological Spectrum

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Balancing Act? Cultural Representations of Work–Family Balance in the News Media

Greer

Peterson

2013

Sociological Spectrum

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“…The current study shows the interactive construction of a cultural discourse that is not only created, but then is continually interpreted, reinterpreted, and sometimes changed in subtle, important ways. This often takes on the form of implicit culture (Wuthnow and Witten 1988) or what has been called implicit meanings (Lichterman 1998). In other words, members often take for granted certain meanings as they engage in the on-going process of interaction.…”

Section: Cultural Discourse Analysismentioning

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Cultural Discourse in Action: Interactional Dynamics and Symbolic Meaning

Magnuson

2005

Qual Sociol

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Cultural sociology has recently developed new tools with which to understand and analyze meaning in terms of cultural discourse. Specifically, this paper further develops the Alexanderian form of discourse analysis through application on the micro-level. Utilizing extensive ethnographic data, the mythopoetic men's movement is examined in terms of how its participants construct political meaning that motivates and guides their action. In empirical detail, these actors can be seen as creating a cultural discourse that constitutes the social movement at a fundamental level while at the same time the discourse is continually negotiated, contested, and reconfigured. Exposed is the "discourse of liberational masculinity" which is used by movement participants to challenge and confront hegemonic masculinity in American society. Examining the mythopoetic men's movement from this perspective demonstrates the analytic utility of this approach through revealing in unique ways the dynamics of morality, political belief, and perceived hegemony within this popular contemporary social movement.

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“…Studies that focus on the "cultural" dimension of human life have, of late, been increasingly advocated and pursued in a broad range of substantive areas in sociology (Wuthnow and Witten 1988). Within the sociology of religion, however, the acceptance and use of cultural approaches is somewhat older (Wuthnow 1987).…”

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Ways of Seeing Ecstasy in Modern Society: Experiential-Expressive and Cultural-Linguistic Views

Yamane

Polzer

1994

Sociology of Religion

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Religious experience is an important but understudied aspect of religion. Sociologists need a theoretical approach that appreciates the existence of and variation in the social distribution of reli~ous experiences. Recogni~ng that theories are interpretive frameworks through which we view the world, and understanding that "every way of seeing is a way of not seeing," use examine two potential "ways of seeing" religious experience in modern society and explore their ability to shed light upon recent surveys which suggest that as much as half the United States adult population has had what can be called "religious experiences." As the dominant views in sociology largely exclude from consideration the experiential dimension of religion, we tum to perspectives that take religious experience more seriously, what Lindbeck (1984) caUs the "experiential-expressive" and "cu/turallinguistic" views. While the former is an advance over the dominant views, it too has liabilities. We advocate the cultural-linguistic theory as the most sophisticated way of seeing reli~on. Asa preliminary test of this view, we examine the relationship between "ecstatic" retigious experience and "conventional" religiosity, predicting that the most conventional worshipers will llave ecstatic experiences most frequently. Logistic regression analysis of General Social Survey data supports this prediction.In both sociology and psychology, the years between World War I and the Korean War were comparatively desolate as far as the study of religion is concemed Gorsuch 1988). This despite the fact that the "founding fathers" of sociology --Marx, Durkheim, and Weber --and the *The ideas in this aracle had the.ir genesis in Robert BeUah' s masterfid presentation o… the socioiogy o… reli~~n at the Universiry of California at Berkeley. They have come to en~rical fruition under the mindful eTe of Richard Schoenherr ac the University o… Wisconsin at Madison. We ate indebted to both. Thanks ate also due to Robert Mare and Samuel Lucas … methodological advice, to Mike Jindra and Chris Fassnacht … substantive input, and to the Sociology of Religion ed/tor and rev/ewers … their insightful comments. Ah earlier version of das article usas presented at the annual meetings of the Association … the Sociology o… Reli~n, Pittsburgh, August, I992. The research was supported by Ÿ to the first author from the American Sociolo~cal Association Minori~ FeUowship Program (N.I.M.H. grato #MH15722-13) and partially supporm~ by a grant flora the N.I.H. (#HD25592-0251). The second aurhor u, as supporte.d by a Universiry of Wisconsin Advanced Oppormniry Fe//owsh/p. We ate grateful to aU of the funding agencies. Ultimately, blame for any shortcomings m ~ ara& resta solely with the authors.

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New Directions in the Study of Culture

Cited by 117 publications

References 20 publications

Balancing Act? Cultural Representations of Work–Family Balance in the News Media

Balancing Act? Cultural Representations of Work–Family Balance in the News Media

Cultural Discourse in Action: Interactional Dynamics and Symbolic Meaning

Ways of Seeing Ecstasy in Modern Society: Experiential-Expressive and Cultural-Linguistic Views

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