- Introduction
- 1. Theory after Essentialism
- Accounting for the Observer
- Observing Observers
- Levels of Observing
- Ideological Conflicts in Observation
- Inside and Outside Observers
- Value-Freedom and Disinterestedness
- The Myth of “Going Native”
- A Few Pretty Old Rules of Method
- The Classics Revisited, Briefly
- Networks and Systems
- Some Elements of a Working Epistemology
- 2. How to Sociologize with a Hammer
- The Crisis of Representation
- Underdetermination and Theory-Ladenness
- The Indeterminacy of Translation
- Empiricizing Contexts and Demarcations
- Incommensurability
- The Double Hermeneutic
- Things and Persons
- 3. Cultural Rationality
- After Reason
- Causes and Reasons
- The Unity of Persons
- What Do Persons Want and Believe?
- Decisions, Decisions
- How to Locate Rationality
- Some Covariates of Rationality
- 4. Foundations of Culture
- Never Minds
- Who Knows? No Idea!
- The Meanings of Meaning
- Observing Culture and Cultural Observers
- What Is in a Culture?
- Cultural Stratification
- Art
- Reputation
- From Creativity to Genius
- 5. Modes of Social Association I: Encounters, Groups, and Organizations
- The Bodies and Brains of Persons
- Emotional Selves
- Levels of Society
- Encounters
- Groups
- Organizations
- Variations in Organizational Cultures
- 6. Modes of Social Association II: Networks
- Drift
- Fields of Forces
- Power to the Networks
- Metabolism
- Renormalization
- Autopoiesis
- Self-Similarity
- Unity
- Boundaries
- Network Expansions
- Networks of Culture
- 7. Realism Explained
- A Continuum of Realism
- Core Expansions and Time
- Machines
- Instruction
- Density
- Monopoly and Hegemony
- Competition and Decentralization
- Literacy and Printing
- Orality, Perception, and Copresence
- Consensus
- Distance and Frontstages
- Conclusion
- Appendix: Theses
- References
- Index
Against Essentialism
A Theory of Culture and Society
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Publication Date: 02/01/2005
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