What Social Science Must Learn From the Humanities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4016598 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey C Alexander (0000-0003-3600-8023, Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 43-54 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia & Antropologia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2236-7527 • E-ISSN: 2238-3875 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/2238-38752019v912 |
| OpenAlex | W2936956171 |
| SCIELO_PID | S2238-38752019000100043 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 19 |
Identifying a shift away from a more humanistic approach in the sociology and political science practiced in the United States since the 1950s, Jeffrey Alexander seeks to recuperate an intellectual tradition of the social sciences that places the cultural meanings and subjective dimensions of social actions at the very centre of analysis, while simultaneously considering the structure nature of social life. Opposing the 'great divide' between social sciences and humanities, therefore, Alexander proposes, via his strong program of cultural sociology, a conception of sociology that considers social facts not as 'things' but as 'texts,' analysing how cultural meanings are socially rooted and structure social life
Epistemology · Humanism · Humanities · Political science · Politics · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Law · Management and Organizational Studies · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics
Cultural sociology and the ‘black box’ of meaning
From Alexander the Great to Alexander's Greatness, and back again
Representational force in transboundary water politics
Reading Jeffrey C. Alexander, Part II
Advancing visitor management research in protected areas
Should AI be Designed to Save Us From Ourselves
How norms, needs, and power in science obstruct transformations towards sustainability
Culture and cognition
Evaluating the computational (“Big Data”) turn in studies of media coverage of climate change
Media Reform as Transformation Tool
Mobilization of the Classics in Sociology
Course in General Linguistics
The Interpretation of Cultures
Ethnic groups and boundaries
The Philosophy of Literary Form
Social Performance
The New American Cultural Sociology
Reassembling the Social
Iconic Consciousness
Gender Trouble
Why War
The Great War and Modern Memory
Aesthetic Experience in Everyday Worlds
Dramas, Fields, and Metaphors
Material Objects in Social Worlds
Divergent Narratives in the Imagining of the Home amongst Middle-Class Consumers
Thing Theory
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,57 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |