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Against culture versus structure / Gans, Herbert J   Journal Article
Gans, Herbert J Journal Article
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Publication 2012.
Summary/Abstract Contemporary sociology is saddled with a culture-structure binary but the fault for its existence lies mostly with cultural sociology. This article is devoted to four related assertions: (1) There has never been any agreement on the definition of culture, making cultural sociology a field unable to define its central concept. (2) The binary ignores the fact that the proper explanation of social behaviour requires both structure and culture; culture cannot be its own cause. (3) Cultural sociology is soft and sentimental, avoiding conflict as well as politics. (4) It neglects policy and policy-relevant research even more than the rest of sociology. Structural sociology has some shortcomings as well, however, and the culture-structure binary should be abandoned.
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