TY  - JOUR
TI  - Symbolic Classifications and “Iron Cage”: Two Perspectives in Theoretical Sociology
T2  - The Russian Sociological Review
IS  - The Russian Sociological Review
KW  - cultural sociology
KW  - reductionism
KW  - symbolic classifications
KW  - “iron cage”
KW  - instrumental rationality
KW  - sacred
KW  - morphogenetic turn in theory of the sacred
AB  - The paper observes several recent approaches in the developing sphere of cultural sociology. It attempts to show that the principle of autonomy of culture, which is central for this perspective, is hard to maintain, as avoiding one particular reductionism can often lead to another one. If we do not assume this, the very explanatory power of this approach diminishes. Thus, the new Durkheimian cultural sociology, which itself is explicitly built on the principle of cultural autonomy, tends to come to a dead-end of structural reductionism or the "principle of the unity of the nature". The idea of the modification of Durkheimian theory, called as "the morphogenetic turn" in the theory of the sacred, is proposed to avoid those dead-ends.
AU  - Dmitry Kurakin
UR  - https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2005-4-1/28147251.html
PY  - 2005
SP  - 63-81
VL  - 4