Culture and Microsociology: The Anthill and the Veldt
Culture and Microsociology: The Anthill and the Veldt
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文化与微观社会学：蚁丘和草原
DOI：
10.1177/0002716208320138
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发表时间：
2008
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通讯作者：
Corey D. Fields
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作者：
G. Fine;Corey D. Fields
作者认为，社会学家必须将人际关系情境的调查作为一种策略，通过这种策略，“文化”才能在实践中得到理解。文化包括广泛的社会过程、制度和价值体系。与将群体和个人视为由强大的文化力量塑造的单位的观点相反，作者认为文化是由个人和群体建立、操纵和促进的。微观情境本身就是行动的舞台，是文化产生和体验的场所。从微观社会学的五个领域——群体、认知、身份/自我、表现和情感——中选取例子，作者展示了一个独特的微观社会学视角如何允许社会学家研究文化如何跨越各种概念，对演员产生影响，反过来又受到演员的影响。通过揭示文化的原貌，微观社会学迫使我们将意义、行为和结构之间的联系理论化。
The authors argue that sociologists must use the investigation of interpersonal situations as a strategy through which “culture” can be understood in practice. Culture includes a broad range of social processes, institutions, and value systems. In contrast to perspectives that treat groups and individuals as units to be shaped by powerful cultural forces, the authors contend that culture is established, manipulated, and promoted by individuals and groups. Microsituations serve as arenas of action in their own right, locations where culture is both produced and experienced. Drawing examples from five areas of microsociology—groups, cognition, identity/ self, performance, and emotion—the authors demonstrate how a distinctively microsociological perspective allows sociologists to examine how culture, across its various conceptions, has an effect on actors and, in turn, is affected by actors. By exposing the workings of culture in situ, microsociology forces us to theorize the connections between meaning, behavior, and structure.