Social construction and cultural meaning: Reconstructing qualitative sociology

Bartmański, Dominik

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“…24 According to Bally, "Une linguistique inspirée par les idées saussuriennes doit -nous l'avons vu -tout ramener à la conscience intérieure que nous avons de la langue" (Bally, 1952, p. 156). 25 Many citations to Saussure in sociology are in the context of promoting Peirce's "superior" approach to the study of signs (Rochberg-Halton, 1982;Bartmanski, 2017). It is important to note, however, that the component that most interested Saussure-the "sound-image"-is embedded in Peirce's interpretant , defined as the effect that a sign has on the mind of an interpreter, and therefore Saussure could not conduct the sort of linguistic analysis he describes in a Peircean framework.…”

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Becoming A Dominant Misinterpreted Source: The Case of Ferdinand De Saussure in Cultural Sociology

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2019

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Cultural analysts in sociology typically cite the work of Ferdinand de Saussure to motivate a narrow theory of meaning. In so doing, sociologists incorrectly attribute to Saussure: (1) the postulate that meaning is arbitrary (2) the idea that signs gain meaning only through relations of opposition to other signs, and (3) the view that there is an isomorphic correspondence between linguistic signs and all cultural units of analysis, ergo culture is fundamentally arbitrary, and finally (4) he offers a Durkheimian theory of culture (i.e. Saussure was follower of Durkheim). Saussure's project, rather, was specific to linguistics, and mainly one of theoretical and methodological clarification regarding phonology. Saussure never intended his analytical model of phonology to apply to the real operation of meaning in general, as done by contemporary interpreters and, furthermore, never argued that meaning is arbitrary.

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Becoming A Dominant Misinterpreted Source: The Case of Ferdinand De Saussure in Cultural Sociology

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“… 24. Many citations to Saussure in sociology are in the context of promoting Peirce’s “superior” approach to the study of signs (Bartmanski, 2017; Rochberg-Halton, 1982). It is important to note, however, that the component that most interested Saussure – the “sound-image” – is embedded in Peirce’s interpretant , defined as the effect that a sign has on the mind of an interpreter, and therefore Saussure could not conduct the sort of linguistic analysis he describes in a Peircean framework. …”

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Becoming a dominant misinterpreted source: The case of Ferdinand de Saussure in cultural sociology

Stoltz

2019

Journal of Classical Sociology

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Cultural analysts in sociology typically cite the work of Ferdinand de Saussure to motivate a narrow theory of meaning. In so doing, sociologists incorrectly attribute to Saussure (1) the postulate that meaning is arbitrary; (2) the idea that signs gain meaning only through relations of opposition to other signs; (3) the view that there is an isomorphic correspondence between linguistic signs and all cultural units of analysis, ergo culture is fundamentally arbitrary; and finally (4) the idea that he offers a Durkheimian theory of culture (i.e. Saussure was a follower of Durkheim). Saussure’s project, rather, was specific to linguistics, and mainly one of theoretical and methodological clarification regarding phonology. Saussure never intended his analytical model of phonology to apply to the real operation of meaning in general, as done by contemporary interpreters and, furthermore, never argued that meaning is arbitrary.

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A new statue to proclaim an old culture: reactions to and intentions of the statue of ‘Christ the redeemer’, Melaka

Tan

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2020

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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Social construction and cultural meaning: Reconstructing qualitative sociology

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Becoming A Dominant Misinterpreted Source: The Case of Ferdinand De Saussure in Cultural Sociology

Becoming A Dominant Misinterpreted Source: The Case of Ferdinand De Saussure in Cultural Sociology

Becoming a dominant misinterpreted source: The case of Ferdinand de Saussure in cultural sociology

A new statue to proclaim an old culture: reactions to and intentions of the statue of ‘Christ the redeemer’, Melaka

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