Richard Biernacki
Biographic Data
| ID | 255509 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Richard Biernacki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Richard |
| FAMILY NAME | Biernacki |
| SIGNATURE | BIERNACKI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California San Diego |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 53 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Rationalization Processes inside Cultural Sociology
This article examines the use of analytic continua with spatial scaling and with potentially similar reifying effects to rationalize social meaning rather than just sound or sight in cultural sociology. It considers the use of the figure of spatial scaling as a point of entry to elucidate the basic logic by which many sociologists interpret the relation between what is culturally meaningful and what lies “outside” culture (or our concept of cultu…
Practice
Practice” is a rich if contested term, on which sociologists converge when they endeavor to portray human action in its cultural and institutional settings. Concepts of practice highlight the influence of taken‐for‐granted, pretheoretical assumptions on human conduct. Such covert assumptions embrace everything that is left out of economists' standard portrayals of intellectual calculations based on personal goals and known facts. For example, the…
The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences
Agency as an Explanatory Key: Theoretical Issues
In philosophy agency designates the inalienable ability of individuals to make choices about their conduct that are not determined by the environment. In empirical social science, however, agency designates not autonomous free will but the launching of patterned action that surpasses constraints in the setting and that directs the course of institutional change. Many social scientists have limited the explanatory task they take on to show that ag…
Industrialization
After Quantitative Cultural Sociology: Interpretive Science as a Calling
When Max Weber in his acclaimed Wissenschaft als Beruf (“Scholarship as a Calling”) somberly declared that the results of scientifi c activity do not illuminate the import that our life should assume for us, he was scarcely positing a dead end. The limits Weber set on what genuine inquiry could address entailed the birth of a demanding ethics. “The question,” he said, “is only in what precise sense science yields ‘no’ answer, and whether in place…
Cultural coherence in early modern England: The invention of contract
Political epistemics: The secret police, the opposition and the end of East German socialism
The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements
Humanist Interpretation Versus Coding Text Samples
Wary Reasoning
Let me assume two burdens in this concluding chapter. Let me sum up parallels across the three case studies to show why ritual is indispensable to their operation and why sampling and coding texts cannot be repaired for the rubric of science. As the second burden, let me retrieve an alternative research tradition by which cultural investigators may capture focal meanings. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process i…
Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables
Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates th
Mindless Reason
The Action Turn?: Comparative-Historical Inquiry beyond the Classical Models of Conduct
A theory of structure: Duality, agency and transformation
Language and the Shift from Signs to Practices in Cultural Inquiry - 1
Labor as an Imagined Commodity
In the transition from the feudal-corporate order to industrial capitalism, German and British producers adopted contrasting definitions of the workers' conveyance of labor as an abstract, quantifiable substance. These definitions of labor as a commodity structured techniques of manufacture and discipline in the early factory systems of Germany and Britain. The contrasting understandings of labor also shaped the dynamics of capital investment and…
The Origin of Capitalism
Language and the Shift from Signs to Practices in Cultural Inquiry
A model of culture as a partially coherent system of signs comprised the most widely employed instrument for analyzing cultural meaning among the new cultural historians. However, the model failed to account for meanings that agents produce by executing social practices rather than by only "reading" contrasts among signs. It also encouraged some analysts to conceive the difference between sign system and concrete practice as that between what is …
Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture
Methodological Issues in Comparative Social Science, Vol. 16: Comparative Social Research
The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914
The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914
Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885-1941.Philip Scranton
The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Charles C. Ragin
Humanist Interpretation Versus Coding Text Samples
Language and the Shift from Signs to Practices in Cultural Inquiry
A model of culture as a partially coherent system of signs comprised the most widely employed instrument for analyzing cultural meaning among the new cultural historians. However, the model failed to account for meanings that agents produce by executing social practices rather than by only "reading" contrasts among signs. It also encouraged some analysts to conceive the difference between sign system and concrete practice as that between what is …
Labor as an Imagined Commodity
In the transition from the feudal-corporate order to industrial capitalism, German and British producers adopted contrasting definitions of the workers' conveyance of labor as an abstract, quantifiable substance. These definitions of labor as a commodity structured techniques of manufacture and discipline in the early factory systems of Germany and Britain. The contrasting understandings of labor also shaped the dynamics of capital investment and…
Political epistemics: The secret police, the opposition and the end of East German socialism
Cultural coherence in early modern England: The invention of contract
The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies. Charles C. Ragin
Figured Tapestry: Production, Markets, and Power in Philadelphia Textiles, 1885-1941.Philip Scranton
The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914
The Fabrication of Labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914
Methodological Issues in Comparative Social Science, Vol. 16: Comparative Social Research
Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture
The Origin of Capitalism
Language and the Shift from Signs to Practices in Cultural Inquiry
A model of culture as a partially coherent system of signs comprised the most widely employed instrument for analyzing cultural meaning among the new cultural historians. However, the model failed to account for meanings that agents produce by executing social practices rather than by only "reading" contrasts among signs. It also encouraged some analysts to conceive the difference between sign system and concrete practice as that between what is …
Labor as an Imagined Commodity
In the transition from the feudal-corporate order to industrial capitalism, German and British producers adopted contrasting definitions of the workers' conveyance of labor as an abstract, quantifiable substance. These definitions of labor as a commodity structured techniques of manufacture and discipline in the early factory systems of Germany and Britain. The contrasting understandings of labor also shaped the dynamics of capital investment and…
A theory of structure: Duality, agency and transformation
Language and the Shift from Signs to Practices in Cultural Inquiry - 1
The Action Turn?: Comparative-Historical Inquiry beyond the Classical Models of Conduct
Mindless Reason
Wary Reasoning
Let me assume two burdens in this concluding chapter. Let me sum up parallels across the three case studies to show why ritual is indispensable to their operation and why sampling and coding texts cannot be repaired for the rubric of science. As the second burden, let me retrieve an alternative research tradition by which cultural investigators may capture focal meanings. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process i…
Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry: Decoding Facts and Variables
Revisiting the dominant scientific method, 'coding,' with which investigators from sociology to literary criticism have sampled texts and catalogued their cultural messages, the author demonstrates th
Cultural coherence in early modern England: The invention of contract
Political epistemics: The secret police, the opposition and the end of East German socialism
The Roots of Radicalism: Tradition, the Public Sphere, and Early Nineteenth-Century Social Movements
Humanist Interpretation Versus Coding Text Samples
Agency as an Explanatory Key: Theoretical Issues
In philosophy agency designates the inalienable ability of individuals to make choices about their conduct that are not determined by the environment. In empirical social science, however, agency designates not autonomous free will but the launching of patterned action that surpasses constraints in the setting and that directs the course of institutional change. Many social scientists have limited the explanatory task they take on to show that ag…
Industrialization
After Quantitative Cultural Sociology: Interpretive Science as a Calling
When Max Weber in his acclaimed Wissenschaft als Beruf (“Scholarship as a Calling”) somberly declared that the results of scientifi c activity do not illuminate the import that our life should assume for us, he was scarcely positing a dead end. The limits Weber set on what genuine inquiry could address entailed the birth of a demanding ethics. “The question,” he said, “is only in what precise sense science yields ‘no’ answer, and whether in place…
Rationalization Processes inside Cultural Sociology
This article examines the use of analytic continua with spatial scaling and with potentially similar reifying effects to rationalize social meaning rather than just sound or sight in cultural sociology. It considers the use of the figure of spatial scaling as a point of entry to elucidate the basic logic by which many sociologists interpret the relation between what is culturally meaningful and what lies “outside” culture (or our concept of cultu…
Practice
Practice” is a rich if contested term, on which sociologists converge when they endeavor to portray human action in its cultural and institutional settings. Concepts of practice highlight the influence of taken‐for‐granted, pretheoretical assumptions on human conduct. Such covert assumptions embrace everything that is left out of economists' standard portrayals of intellectual calculations based on personal goals and known facts. For example, the…
The Dialectics of Inquiry Across the Historical Social Sciences
Sociology (16 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Philosophy (10 works) · Social science (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Law (5 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (4 works)