TY  - JOUR
TI  - Strong Program in Cultural Sociology
T2  - The Russian Sociological Review
IS  - The Russian Sociological Review
KW  - Emile Durkheim
KW  - meaning
KW  - "strong program"
KW  - hermeneutics
KW  - cultural sociology
KW  - structuralism
KW  - "weak programs"
KW  - autonomy of culture
KW  - cultural code
KW  - sacred
KW  - narrative
AB  - In the paper, which pretends to be a program manifesto, its authors justify a necessity of the new theoretical approach to culture which they call a "strong program" in sociology of culture. While the existing sociological approaches to culture ("weak programs") bear a reductionist character, the "strong program" treats culture in terms of its autonomy. After a general review of the sociological conceptions of culture authors analyze the most significant approaches within the "weak program." In the core section of the paper they discuss the required steps that will make a "strong program" possible on the grounds of synthesis of structuralism and hermeneutics.
AU  - Jeffrey Alexander
AU  - Philip Smith
UR  - https://sociologica.hse.ru/en/2010-9-2/27371418.html
PY  - 2010
SP  - 11-30
VL  - 9