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What we talk about when we talk about culture: a multi-facet approach
American Journal of Cultural Sociology ( IF 2.380 ) Pub Date : 2020-01-25 , DOI: 10.1057/s41290-019-00094-7
Christina Simko , Jeffrey K. Olick

Though the cultural turn is well behind us, sociologists of culture have yet to agree upon a clear definition of their subject. Recent efforts in this direction have characterized culture as a meta-concept, identifying and disentangling its constituent parts. Building on the two- and three-dimensional models that have emerged of late, while also taking stock of the longer history of sociology’s struggle to reconceptualize culture after Parsons, we argue that culture is best understood via a four-facet model. Culture, we argue, consists of discourse, which is oriented toward meaning, and practice, which is oriented toward action. But both discourse and practice have implicit and explicit dimensions: they consist of underlying generative structures and concrete manifestations. To demonstrate the four-facet model’s value for empirical analysis, we use it to address the high-profile methodological debates that have recently roiled the field, pitting ethnography, interviewing, and survey research against one another as the ideal mode of accessing culture writ large. Rather than arbitrating among methods, we show, the four-facet model specifies how each approach contributes to cultural analysis, facilitating conversation in places where disagreements currently appear intractable and underwriting methodological pluralism.



中文翻译:

当我们谈论文化时,我们在谈论什么:多方面的方法

尽管文化转向已经远远落后于我们,但文化社会学家尚未就其主题的明确定义达成一致。最近在这个方向上的努力将文化描述为一个元概念,识别和解开其组成部分。建立在最近出现的二维和三维模型的基础上,同时也评估了在帕森斯之后社会学为重新概念化文化而奋斗的较长历史,我们认为最好通过四方面模型来理解文化。我们认为,文化由面向意义的话语和面向行动的实践组成。但话语和实践都具有隐性显性维度:它们由潜在的生成结构和具体的表现形式组成。为了证明四方面模型对实证分析的价值,我们用它来解决最近在该领域引起轰动的备受瞩目的方法论辩论,将人种学、访谈和调查研究相互作为获取文化理想模式。 . 我们展示了四方面模型,而不是在方法之间进行仲裁,而是详细说明了每种方法如何有助于文化分析,促进在目前看来难以解决分歧的地方进行对话,并支持方法论多元化。

更新日期:2020-01-25
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