Filozofija i drustvo 2013 Volume 24, Issue 1, Pages: 423-443
https://doi.org/10.2298/FID1301423P
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A pragmatic critique of the conception of everyday praxis within Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology
Prodanović Srđan (Institut za Filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Beograd)
This paper tries to critically analyse Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural
sociology. In the first part of the paper I will examine Alexander’s
conception of hermeneutical structuralism which argues that conventional
systemic sociology and richness of experience found in everyday praxis can be
reconciled. In the next section I will provide a critique of this kind of
approach to social theory and maintain that Alexander’s sociology is, in
principle, reductionist regarding everyday life. In addition, I will also
point out some of the comparative advantages that pragmatically oriented
theory has in the attempt of integrating theoretical and practical knowledge.
In the final section of the paper, I will try to illustrate some of the major
shortcomings of Alexander’s sociology on the concrete example of advances in
computer technology.
Keywords: cultural sociology, hermeneutical structuralism, everyday life, pragmatism, computer technology
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