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Index
Cover
Table of Contents
Title page
Copyright page
A Message in a Bottle: on the Recovered Work of Zygmunt Bauman
Introduction
The History of the Preserved Copy and the Reconstruction of the Text of the Book
Sketches in the Theory of Culture in the Context of Bauman's Earlier Work
The Problematic of Sketches in the Theory of Culture
The Evolution of Zygmunt Bauman's Theory of Culture
Conclusion
Bibliography
Documents collected in the editorial file of Sketches in the Theory of Culture (book card no. B-196), located in the Ossolineum Publishing House
Notes
From the Author
Part I Sign and Culture
I: The Origins of the Semiotic Theory of Culture, or the Crisis of Cultural Anthropology
Culture as an Object of Research
One's Own Society and the Perception of Difference
The Name of the Crisis
Claude Lévi-Strauss, or the Negation of the Negation
What Next?
Notes
II: Towards a Semiotic Theory of Culture
The Contemporary Concept of the Sign
The Meaning of Human Behaviours
Arbitrariness and the Degrees of Freedom in Action-Sign
The Semiotic Function as Determinant
Culture as the Codification of the Semiotic Function of Action
Notes
III: Man and Sign
The Contemporary form of Praxeomorphism
Signs and the Animal World
Intra-Species Communication and the Creation of the Human
The Battle Over Human Uniqueness
Instead of a Conclusion
Notes
IV: The Problem of Universals and the Semiotic Theory of Culture
Edmund Leach’s Theory of Realms of Social Space
Undemarcated Margins In a Demarcated World
Afterword
Notes
V: Some Research Problems in the Semiotic Theory of Culture
On The Possibility of a General Theory of Symbolic Behaviour
The Problem of a Synchronic Analysis of the ‘Cultural Field’
Research Problems in the Phylogenesis of Models
Research Problems In the Ontogenesis of the ‘Cultural Field’
Research Problems in the Development of Culture
Notes
Part II Culture and Social Structure
I: Cultural and Extra-Cultural Organization of Society
The Unit of Analysis: the Socio-Cultural System
The Unit of Analysis: the Human Individual
Notes
II: Economics, Culture, and Typologies of Societies
Methodological Premises
Infrastructure of Cultural Changes
‘Marketization’ of the Process of Satisfying Needs
‘Marketization’ and Cultural Changes
Other Lessons Regarding Similarities and Differences
Notes
III: Cultural Determinants of the Research Process
The Relative Autonomy of Culture
The Structure of the Act Of Research
Cultural Determination and Cultural Differentiation
Culture and Knowledge: Points of Intersection
Notes
IV: Three Observations About Problems of Contemporary Education
The Lost Social Function of Youth
Extra-Cultural Determinants of Behaviour
Problem of Emotional Safety
Notes
V: Masses, Classes, Elites: Semiotics and the Re-Imagination of the Sociological Function of Culture
Note One: the Matter of Infrastructure
Note Two: In the Matter of ‘Higher’ and ‘Lower’ Culture
Notes
Afterword
Notes
Index
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