Social Myths And Collective Imaginaries


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Social Myths And Collective Imaginaries


Social Myths And Collective Imaginaries
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Author : Gérard Bouchard
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2017-01-01

Social Myths And Collective Imaginaries written by Gérard Bouchard and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-01-01 with Myth categories.


In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, G?rard Bouchard conceptualizes myths as vessels of sacred values that transcend the division between primitive and modern. These vessels become so influential as to make an indelible impression on people's minds.



Social Myths And Collective Imaginaries


Social Myths And Collective Imaginaries
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Author : Gérard Bouchard
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017

Social Myths And Collective Imaginaries written by Gérard Bouchard and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Electronic books categories.


In Social Myths and Collective Imaginaries, Gérard Bouchard conceptualizes myths as vessels of sacred values that transcend the division between primitive and modern. These vessels become so influential as to make an indelible impression on people's minds.



National Myths


National Myths
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Author : Gérard Bouchard
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-05-02

National Myths written by Gérard Bouchard and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-02 with Social Science categories.


National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural crisis has become commonplace. Indeed, who today has not heard about the erosion of common values or the undermining of social cohesion? But to efficiently address this issue, do we know enough about the nature and role of myths in modern and postmodern societies? Against this background, National Myths: Constructed Pasts, Contested Presents relies on a sample of nations from around the world and seeks to highlight the functioning of national myths, both as representations that make sense of a collectivity, and as socially grounded tools used in a web of power relations. The collection draws together contributions from international experts to examine the present state of national myths, and their fate in today’s rapidly-changing society. Can – or must – nations do without the sort of overarching symbolic configurations that national myths provide? If so, how to rethink the fabrics and the future of our societies? This book will appeal to students and scholars interested in sociology, national, identity and memory studies, myths, shared beliefs, or collective imaginaries.



The Internet Myth


The Internet Myth
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Author : Paolo Bory
language : en
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Release Date : 2020-04-29

The Internet Myth written by Paolo Bory and has been published by University of Westminster Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-04-29 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.


‘The Internet is broken and Paolo Bory knows how we got here. In a powerful book based on original research, Bory carefully documents the myths, imaginaries, and ideologies that shaped the material and cultural history of the Internet. As important as this book is to understand our shattered digital world, it is essential for those who would fix it.’ — Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart City in a Digital World The Internet Myth retraces and challenges the myth laying at the foundations of the network ideologies – the idea that networks, by themselves, are the main agents of social, economic, political and cultural change. By comparing and integrating different sources related to network histories, this book emphasizes how a dominant narrative has extensively contributed to the construction of the Internet myth while other visions of the networked society have been erased from the collective imaginary. The book decodes, analyzes and challenges the foundations of the network ideologies looking at how networks have been imagined, designed and promoted during the crucial phase of the 1990s. Three case studies are scrutinized so as to reveal the complexity of network imaginaries in this decade: the birth of the Web and the mythopoesis of its inventor; and the histories of two Italian networking projects, the infrastructural plan Socrate and the civic network Iperbole, the first to give free Internet access to citizens. The Internet Myth thereby provides a compelling and hidden sociohistorical narrative in order to challenge one of the most powerful myths of our time. This title has been published with the financial assistance of the Fondazione Hilda e Felice Vitali, Lugano, Switzerland.



Social Imaginaries Volume 2 Issue 1 Spring 2016


Social Imaginaries Volume 2 Issue 1 Spring 2016
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2016-05-13

Social Imaginaries Volume 2 Issue 1 Spring 2016 written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-13 with categories.




Modern Social Imaginaries


Modern Social Imaginaries
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Author : Charles Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Duke University Press
Release Date : 2004

Modern Social Imaginaries written by Charles Taylor and has been published by Duke University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Philosophy categories.


DIVAn accounting of the varying forms of social imaginary that have underpinned the rise of Western modernity./div



Sociological Knowledge And Collective Identity


Sociological Knowledge And Collective Identity
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Author : Stavit Sinai
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-03-28

Sociological Knowledge And Collective Identity written by Stavit Sinai and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-03-28 with Social Science categories.


Sociology, emerging in the 19th century as the study of national societies, is the intellectual product of its time, power relations and social imaginaries. As a discursive practice that was enmeshed in the meta-narratives of modernity, the discipline of sociology bears the inherent capacity to shape socially shared concepts and construct collective identities. This book examines the relationships between sociology and projects of national identity construction, and presents a critique of Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, the prominent Israeli sociologist known as the "father of Israeli sociology". The book focuses on Eisenstadt’s sociology of Israel as a case of knowledge construction within an ideological system and examines the relationships between his various sociological analyses of Israeli society and the Zionist imaginary, namely the deeply entrenched political myths and historiographical narratives that constitute Israel’s hegemonic national identity. By emphasizing the interrelation between textuality, identity, and loaded language, the volume seeks to demythologize Eisenstadt’s sociology of Israel. Three major concepts in Eisenstadt’s scholarship are specifically thematized: integration, civilization, and modernities. In each of these foci, the author shows how Eisenstadt’s sociological conjectures reproduce dominant Zionist historiographical representations of the past, rationalize prevalent social hierarchies, reify the boundaries of a national collective "Self", and render legitimacy to Israel’s governing ethnocratic tendencies, underlying the premises of the Zionist settler-colonial project. Sociological Knowledge and Collective Identity will appeal to those interested in the interconnectedness of sociology and political memory, as well as in a radical postcolonial reconstruction of sociology.



Researching Subcultures Myth And Memory


Researching Subcultures Myth And Memory
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Author : Bart van der Steen
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-07-30

Researching Subcultures Myth And Memory written by Bart van der Steen and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-30 with History categories.


This book brings together contributions that analyse how subcultural myths develop and how they can be studied. Through critical engagement with (history) writing and other sources on subcultures by contemporaries, veterans, popular media and researchers, it aims to establish: how stories and histories of subcultures emerge and become canonized through the process of mythification; which developments and actors are crucial in this process; and finally how researchers like historians, sociologists, and anthropologists should deal with these myths and myth-making processes. By considering these issues and questions in relation to mythmaking, this book provides new insights on how to research the identity, history, and cultural memory of youth subcultures.



The Cambridge Handbook Of Social Representations


The Cambridge Handbook Of Social Representations
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Author : Gordon Sammut
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015-05-25

The Cambridge Handbook Of Social Representations written by Gordon Sammut and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-25 with Psychology categories.


This Handbook provides the requisite theoretical and methodological guidelines for undertaking social research addressing relevant contemporary social issues.



Constitutional Semiotics


Constitutional Semiotics
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Author : Martin Belov
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-06-30

Constitutional Semiotics written by Martin Belov and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-30 with Law categories.


This book offers an outline of the foundations of a theory of constitutional semiotics. It provides a systematic account of the concept of constitutional semiotics and its role in the representation and signification of meaning in constitution, constitutional law, and constitutionalism. The book explores the constitutional signification of meaning that is stretched between rational entrenchment and constitutional imagination. It provides a critical assessment of the rationalist entrapment of constitutional modernity and justifies the need to turn to 'shadow constitutionalisms': textual, symbolic-imaginary and visual constitutionalism. The book puts forward innovative incentives for constitutional analysis based on constitutional semiotics as a paradigm for representation of meaning in rational, textual, symbolic-imaginary and visual constitutionalism. The book focuses on the textual, imaginative, and visual discourse of constitutionalism, which is built upon collective constitutional imaginaries and on the peculiar normativity of constitutional geometry and constitutional mythology as borderline phenomena entrenched in rational, textual, symbolic-imaginary and visual constitutionalism. The book analyses concepts such as: constitutional text and texture, authoritative constitutional narratives and authoritative constitutional narrators, constitutional semiotic community, constitutional utopia, constitutional taboo, normative ideology and normative ideas, constitutional myth and mythology, constitutional symbolism, constitutional code and constitutional geometric form. It explores the textual entrenchment of constitutionalism and its repercussions for representation and signification of meaning.