Cultural Meanings and Social Institutions

Cultural Meanings and Social Institutions
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Total Pages : 130
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ISBN-10 : 9783030037390
ISBN-13 : 3030037398
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Book Synopsis Cultural Meanings and Social Institutions by : David R. Heise

Download or read book Cultural Meanings and Social Institutions written by David R. Heise and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing three methods of assessing meaning, this book demonstrates that the thousands of human identities in English coalesce into groups that are recognizable as role sets in the contemporary social institutions of economy, kinship, religion, polity, law, education, medicine, sport, and arts. After establishing a theoretical and a methodological framework for his empirical work, David Heise presents the results obtained when meanings are assessed via dictionary definitions, collocates, and word associations. A close comparison of the results reveals that similar outcomes are obtained through each of these three different approaches of defining meaning. The final chapter summarizes the study, considers the benefits and limitations of studying society via language, and applies the results to describing how individuals operate social institutions via their daily social interactions. Aspects of this book will be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists, and linguists.


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