Culture" is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process, a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. The Theft of History - 第 181 頁Jack Goody 著 - 2007有限的預覽 - 關於此書
| Walter L. Wallace - 578 頁
...typology of such variables. The typology in question is founded on the proposition that " 'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of...a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance" (Weber, 1949:81), and on defining the conferral of meaning as the psychical act of relating... | |
| James T. Kloppenberg - 1988 - 557 頁
...drama has no meaning beyond that brought to it by its actors and interpreters. He described culture as "a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the...a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance." 89 Thus Weber brought all values, including Kant's and Marx's different notions of critique,... | |
| S. Turner - 1986 - 282 頁
...ontological basis for such arguments. The problem is quite simple. Weber said, for example, that "'Culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process" (1949, p. 81; 1922, p. 180) and that human beings confer meaning on this segment. Weber's critics seized... | |
| Fredrik Barth - 1987 - 116 頁
...Obeyesekere makes felicitous use, cf. Obeyesekere 1981: 1 06 ff) provides a helpful perspective: 'Culture is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of...a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance' ( Weber 1 949: 8 1 ). Or in Geertz's formulation: ' man is an animal suspended in webs... | |
| Peter Hamilton - 1991 - 470 頁
...no reality to which human beings should refer their activities. Or put in Weber's terms, "'culture' is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of...a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance."5 Or said differently, there is a world of difference between those who know and those... | |
| Marina Roseman - 1991 - 256 頁
...reality is colored by our value-conditioned interest and it alone is significant to us. . . . "Culture" is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of...a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. (Weber 1905/1977:27,31) This concern with meaning and significance, with a value orientation... | |
| Michael Martin, Lee C. McIntyre - 1994 - 818 頁
...according to the value-ideas in the light of which we view "culture" in each individual case. "Culture" is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of...a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. This is true even for the human being who views a particular culture as a mortal enemy... | |
| Mike Featherstone, Scott Lash, Roland Robertson - 1995 - 306 頁
...as a human faculty conferred on the chaos of experience. As Weber (1904/ 1949: 81) said: '"Culture" is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of...a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance'. Simmel sounds even more contemporary in his 191 1 essay, 'On the concept and tragedy... | |
| Joyce Oldham Appleby - 1996 - 578 頁
...according to the value-ideas in the light of which we view "culture" in each individual case. "Culture" is a finite segment of the meaningless infinity of...a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance. This is true even for the human being who views a particular culture as a mortal enemy... | |
| James Arthur Anderson - 1996 - 276 頁
...reality is a conferred status. Weber (1903/1949) states that the culture of social life "is a fmite segment of the meaningless infinity of the world process,...a segment on which human beings confer meaning and significance" (p. 81). What becomes real, then — in the sense that it can be known — requires an... | |
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