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Towards the World Culture Society

Florian Znaniecki’s Culturalism

by Elżbieta Hałas (Author)
©2010 Monographs 260 Pages

Summary

If the new cultural sociology is to gain firm grounds, it should rediscover the classic studies on cultural dynamics and cultural systems. This book contributes to a better understanding of Florian Znaniecki as an eminent culturologist and the lasting relevance of his theory of cultural becoming. Znaniecki opted for a humanistic approach that he called culturalism. Culturalism, founded on the principle of the humanistic coefficient, is applied also to the cultural person. The concept of social values makes this cultural approach an original one. The cultural logic and cultural ethos of Znaniecki’s thought is inherent in the very principle of a creative evolution of culture, augmenting his vision of a new civilization of the future and a world culture society.

Details

Pages
260
Year
2010
ISBN (PDF)
9783653001419
ISBN (Hardcover)
9783631599464
DOI
10.3726/978-3-653-00141-9
Language
English
Publication date
2010 (November)
Keywords
Symbolic Interactions Cultural Systems Social Value Civilization Process
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2010. 260 pp.

Biographical notes

Elżbieta Hałas (Author)

The Author: Elżbieta Hałas is Full Professor of Sociology at the University of Warsaw (Poland). Her recent publications include Symbols and Society, Warsaw 2007 (in Polish). Her research interests are in cultural sociology, social symbolism and collective memory, interpretive social theory and history of sociology.

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