Social Structure and the Absent Center
An Alternative to New Sociologies of Religion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4264282 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Charles C Lemert, Charles Lemert (Southern Illinois University Carbondale, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1975 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 95 |
| Publication date | 1975-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociological Analysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0210 • E-ISSN: 2325-7873 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3710473 |
| OpenAlex | W2460361628 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 3 |
The new sociology of religion (Bellah, Berger, Luckmann, Fenn, among others) has made little progress because of its failure to consider the metatheoretical aspect of its various sociological proposals. There are, metatheoretically, two classic problems: the tension between the personal and the social structural dimensions of social action and the problem of meaning . The new sociologists of religion share an ambivalence with respect to social structure, a tendency to reduce religion to the personal level, and an uncritical assumption that religion must have to do with meaning as a central feature of social behavior. The article draws upon recent French semiotics as a metatheoretical alternative in which one can see a social theory that accounts positively for social structures, without requiring meaningfulness as a requirement of religious efficacy
Center (category theory) · Crystallography · Library science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Religious Tourism and Spaces
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,04 |
| Citation span | 1979 - 1987 (9) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |