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J Alexander, P Smith - Handbook of sociological theory, 2001 - Springer

The strong program in cultural theory: Elements of a structural hermeneutics.

Cultural Transformation in the Geoscience Community AND Program Evaluation

Alexander, Smith

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Throughout the world, culture has been doggedly pushing its way onto the center stage of debates not only in sociological theory and research but also throughout the human sciences. As with any profound intellectual shift, this has been a process characterized by leads and lags. In Britain, for example, culture has been making headway since the early 1970s. In the United States, the tide began to turn unmistakably only in the mid-1980s. In continental Europe, it is possible to argue that culture never really went away. Despite this …

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