Jorge Arditi
Biographic Data
| ID | 157734 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jorge Arditi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jorge |
| FAMILY NAME | Arditi |
| SIGNATURE | ARDITI J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Department of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Sociology and Mass Culture
A Genealogy of Manners
Jorge Arditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu, the text examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over time. Analyzing courtesy manuals and etiquette books from the 13th to the 18th century, Arditi shows how the dominant classes of a society were able to create a sy…
A Genealogy of Manners
This broad-ranging book on ideals of comportment and self-representation among Western European elites from the late medieval period through the early modern age is an erudite, wellargued, and theoretically sophisticated work. Its principal claim that the behavioral and linguistic patterns through which individuals present themselves to others structure, rather than result from, the hierarchy of status and power in a society is based on a fascina…
Etiquette Books, Discourse and the Deployment of an Order of Things
Grounded on Foucault's suggestion that discourses are not just referential or representational systems, but part of the infrastructure ordering practices in a society, this article analyzes transformations in the etiquette literature in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century. It claims that the transformations undergone by etiquette books at the time involved not only a change in the substance of manners but also in their format, and it sho…
Fractured Resistances
This article analyzes the arguments of two of the central positions in the debate over assimilationism in the gay and lesbian community as a means of exploring the meaning of resistance, opposition, struggle, and agency within the context of a dominant and generative field of power. Instead of debating which position is better or most effective, or which involves “true resistance,” we use Foucault's formulations to suggest that each represents bu…
Coercion and Consent
Simmel's Theory of Alienation and the Decline of the Nonrational
L'A. montre que dans « La Philosophie de l'argent », G. Simmel a elabore une theorie de l'alienation et de l'irrationalite. Dans ce cadre l'appauvrissement progressif de l'individu induit une separation progressive, d'une part, entre la culture subjective et objective et, d'autre part, entre les conditions de travail objectives et subjectives. Simmel affirme que le monde rationalise cree par la modernite et la division du travail tend a perdre so…
The Feminization of Etiquette Literature
This paper explores the opening of a discursive space within the etiquette literature in the United States during the 19th century and how women used this space as a vehicle of empowerment. It identifies two major strategies of empowerment. First, the use or appropriation of existing discourses that can help redefine the 'other' within an hegemonic space. Second, and more importantly, the transformation of that space in shifting the lines by whic…
Agency and Structure
The New Sociology of Knowledge
The new sociology of knowledge examines how kinds of social organization make whole orderings of knowledge possible, rather than focussing on the differing social locations and interests of individuals or groups. The review begins with the effects on knowledge of the media through which it is preserved, organized, and transmitted. We then analyze collective memory, examining social conditions that shape how knowledge is transmitted through time. …
Geertz, Kuhn and the Idea of a Cultural Paradigm
Cet article examine les deux problemes qui ont jusqu'alors contrarie le developpement de la Sociologie de la Connaissance. En premier lieu la relativisation autodestructrice de la connaissance et la these selon laquelle la connaissance est necessairement circulaire. L'A. expose les strategies des sociologues pour triompher de ces difficultes et pour developper une perspective coherente sur la base des travaux de Geertz et Kuhn. L'A. avance le con…
Hegemony and Etiquette
The introduction towards the middle of the eighteenth century of the word etiquette to denote good behavior or propriety marks a moment in the history of the English language that has not received much attention. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first appearance of the word in a letter Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son on March 19, 1750. 'Without hesitation', Chesterfield admonished the young Philip Stanhope, 'kiss his [the Pope's] slip…
Out of the Maze? Twists and Riddles of Postmodern Thinking
Fractured Resistances
This article analyzes the arguments of two of the central positions in the debate over assimilationism in the gay and lesbian community as a means of exploring the meaning of resistance, opposition, struggle, and agency within the context of a dominant and generative field of power. Instead of debating which position is better or most effective, or which involves “true resistance,” we use Foucault's formulations to suggest that each represents bu…
Etiquette Books, Discourse and the Deployment of an Order of Things
Grounded on Foucault's suggestion that discourses are not just referential or representational systems, but part of the infrastructure ordering practices in a society, this article analyzes transformations in the etiquette literature in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century. It claims that the transformations undergone by etiquette books at the time involved not only a change in the substance of manners but also in their format, and it sho…
Simmel's Theory of Alienation and the Decline of the Nonrational
L'A. montre que dans « La Philosophie de l'argent », G. Simmel a elabore une theorie de l'alienation et de l'irrationalite. Dans ce cadre l'appauvrissement progressif de l'individu induit une separation progressive, d'une part, entre la culture subjective et objective et, d'autre part, entre les conditions de travail objectives et subjectives. Simmel affirme que le monde rationalise cree par la modernite et la division du travail tend a perdre so…
Hegemony and Etiquette
The introduction towards the middle of the eighteenth century of the word etiquette to denote good behavior or propriety marks a moment in the history of the English language that has not received much attention. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first appearance of the word in a letter Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son on March 19, 1750. 'Without hesitation', Chesterfield admonished the young Philip Stanhope, 'kiss his [the Pope's] slip…
A Genealogy of Manners
Jorge Arditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu, the text examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over time. Analyzing courtesy manuals and etiquette books from the 13th to the 18th century, Arditi shows how the dominant classes of a society were able to create a sy…
Geertz, Kuhn and the Idea of a Cultural Paradigm
Cet article examine les deux problemes qui ont jusqu'alors contrarie le developpement de la Sociologie de la Connaissance. En premier lieu la relativisation autodestructrice de la connaissance et la these selon laquelle la connaissance est necessairement circulaire. L'A. expose les strategies des sociologues pour triompher de ces difficultes et pour developper une perspective coherente sur la base des travaux de Geertz et Kuhn. L'A. avance le con…
Out of the Maze? Twists and Riddles of Postmodern Thinking
A Genealogy of Manners
This broad-ranging book on ideals of comportment and self-representation among Western European elites from the late medieval period through the early modern age is an erudite, wellargued, and theoretically sophisticated work. Its principal claim that the behavioral and linguistic patterns through which individuals present themselves to others structure, rather than result from, the hierarchy of status and power in a society is based on a fascina…
The Feminization of Etiquette Literature
This paper explores the opening of a discursive space within the etiquette literature in the United States during the 19th century and how women used this space as a vehicle of empowerment. It identifies two major strategies of empowerment. First, the use or appropriation of existing discourses that can help redefine the 'other' within an hegemonic space. Second, and more importantly, the transformation of that space in shifting the lines by whic…
Out of the Maze? Twists and Riddles of Postmodern Thinking
The New Sociology of Knowledge
The new sociology of knowledge examines how kinds of social organization make whole orderings of knowledge possible, rather than focussing on the differing social locations and interests of individuals or groups. The review begins with the effects on knowledge of the media through which it is preserved, organized, and transmitted. We then analyze collective memory, examining social conditions that shape how knowledge is transmitted through time. …
Geertz, Kuhn and the Idea of a Cultural Paradigm
Cet article examine les deux problemes qui ont jusqu'alors contrarie le developpement de la Sociologie de la Connaissance. En premier lieu la relativisation autodestructrice de la connaissance et la these selon laquelle la connaissance est necessairement circulaire. L'A. expose les strategies des sociologues pour triompher de ces difficultes et pour developper une perspective coherente sur la base des travaux de Geertz et Kuhn. L'A. avance le con…
Hegemony and Etiquette
The introduction towards the middle of the eighteenth century of the word etiquette to denote good behavior or propriety marks a moment in the history of the English language that has not received much attention. The Oxford English Dictionary records the first appearance of the word in a letter Lord Chesterfield wrote to his son on March 19, 1750. 'Without hesitation', Chesterfield admonished the young Philip Stanhope, 'kiss his [the Pope's] slip…
Agency and Structure
Coercion and Consent
Simmel's Theory of Alienation and the Decline of the Nonrational
L'A. montre que dans « La Philosophie de l'argent », G. Simmel a elabore une theorie de l'alienation et de l'irrationalite. Dans ce cadre l'appauvrissement progressif de l'individu induit une separation progressive, d'une part, entre la culture subjective et objective et, d'autre part, entre les conditions de travail objectives et subjectives. Simmel affirme que le monde rationalise cree par la modernite et la division du travail tend a perdre so…
The Feminization of Etiquette Literature
This paper explores the opening of a discursive space within the etiquette literature in the United States during the 19th century and how women used this space as a vehicle of empowerment. It identifies two major strategies of empowerment. First, the use or appropriation of existing discourses that can help redefine the 'other' within an hegemonic space. Second, and more importantly, the transformation of that space in shifting the lines by whic…
A Genealogy of Manners
Jorge Arditi's study offers a history of mores from the High Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. Drawing on the pioneering ideas of Norbert Elias, Michel Foucault, and Pierre Bourdieu, the text examines the relationship between power and social practices and traces how power changes over time. Analyzing courtesy manuals and etiquette books from the 13th to the 18th century, Arditi shows how the dominant classes of a society were able to create a sy…
A Genealogy of Manners
This broad-ranging book on ideals of comportment and self-representation among Western European elites from the late medieval period through the early modern age is an erudite, wellargued, and theoretically sophisticated work. Its principal claim that the behavioral and linguistic patterns through which individuals present themselves to others structure, rather than result from, the hierarchy of status and power in a society is based on a fascina…
Etiquette Books, Discourse and the Deployment of an Order of Things
Grounded on Foucault's suggestion that discourses are not just referential or representational systems, but part of the infrastructure ordering practices in a society, this article analyzes transformations in the etiquette literature in the USA at the beginning of the 20th century. It claims that the transformations undergone by etiquette books at the time involved not only a change in the substance of manners but also in their format, and it sho…
Fractured Resistances
This article analyzes the arguments of two of the central positions in the debate over assimilationism in the gay and lesbian community as a means of exploring the meaning of resistance, opposition, struggle, and agency within the context of a dominant and generative field of power. Instead of debating which position is better or most effective, or which involves “true resistance,” we use Foucault's formulations to suggest that each represents bu…
Sociology and Mass Culture
Sociology (11 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (4 works) · Etiquette (4 works) · Law (4 works)