Cultural Analysis in Historical Sociology: The Analytic and Concrete Forms of the Autonomy of Culture
Cultural Analysis in Historical Sociology: The Analytic and Concrete Forms of the Autonomy of Culture
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历史社会学中的文化分析：文化自主性的分析和具体形式
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1991
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Anne E. Kane
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Anne E. Kane
本文试图澄清文化分析在历史解释中的作用的困惑，提出一种新的文化自主性问题的研究方法。前提是，有两种形式的文化自治，分析和具体。分析的自主性假定文化的独立结构--它的要素、过程和再生产。它是通过从理论上和人为地将文化与其他社会结构、条件和行动分开来实现的。具体自主性建立了文化与社会生活其他部分的相互联系，并通过充实特定文化结构的历史特定表述来实现。除了在理论上说明文化自主的两种形式，我证明了分析和具体的自主性在实践中，通过检查两个作品，将文化纳入同一历史事件的分析。承认分析性和具体的文化自主性的回报是双重的。首先，文化还原论可以通过确立文化是结构性的来反驳。其次，更重要的是，一旦确立了一种文化形式的独立性，它对具体历史状况的因果贡献就可以得到准确的评估，并融入历史解释之中。
In an effort to clear away confusions regarding the role of cultural analysis in historical explanation, this paper proposes a new approach to the issue of cultural autonomy. The premise is that there are two forms of cultural autonomy, analytic and concrete. Analytic autonomy posits the independent structure of culture-its elements, processes, and reproduction. It is achieved through the theoretical and artificial separation of culture from other social structures, conditions, and action. Concrete autonomy establishes the interconnection of culture with the rest of social life, and is achieved by fleshing out the historically specific formulation of particular cultural structures. In addition to theoretically specifying the two forms of cultural autonomy, I demonstrate analytic and concrete autonomy in practice by examining two works that incorporate culture into the analysis of the same historical event. The rewards of recognizing both analytic and concrete cultural autonomy are twofold. First, cultural reductionism can be countered by establishing that culture is structural. Second and more important, once the independent nature of a cultural form is established, its causal contribution to concrete historical situations can be assessed accurately and integrated into historical explanation.