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Jiayin Zhang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural revolution on naming in beijing
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural Expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of Expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporting individual Expression.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural revolution on naming in beijing
American Journal of Sociology, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural Expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of Expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporti...
Elena Obukhova - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural revolution on naming in beijing
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural Expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of Expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporting individual Expression.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural revolution on naming in beijing
American Journal of Sociology, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural Expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of Expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporti...
Vincensini Jean-jacques - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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De la victime émissaire à la pensée symbolique
Carnets, 2018Co-Authors: Vincensini Jean-jacquesAbstract:Quelle place René Girard occupe-t-il dans l’espace des sciences humaines ? On répondra en partant des critiques qu’il a adressées à la psychanalyse freudienne et l’ont conduit à considérer la violence comme le « signifiant transcendantal » des désirs et de toutes les Expressions culturelles. Les conséquences paraissent dans la confrontation entre René Girard et Claude Lévi-Strauss. Attentif à la structuration caractéristique de la pensée « sauvage » ou « symbolique » propre à chaque ensemble mythique ou légendaire, Lévi-Strauss refuse la prééminence accordée à un code spécifique (comme la sexualité ou la violence) : le symbole n’est pas motivé par un signifié invariable et « transcendant » caché derrière le voile des textes. Pour illustrer cette confrontation, on étudie un exemple venu de la littérature médiévale. Le motif étudié « pense » la violence mimétique, les ardeurs du corps et la nécessité de leur modération, dans une perspective symbolique et culturelle particulières.What place does René Girard occupy in the human sciences? Our answer shall start with his criticism of Freudian psychoanalysis, which leads him to consider violence as the « transcendental signifier » of desires and of every Cultural Expression. The consequences of this criticism are particularly obvious in René Girard's confrontation with Claude Lévi-Strauss. As Levi Strauss witnesses the characteristic structure of the « savage » or « symbolical » thought specific to each mythical or legendary group, he refuses the supremacy allowed to a specific code (such as sexuality or violence): the symbol is not related to an unchanging and « transcendant » signifier veiled by the text. We shall study this confrontation through an emblematic example drawn from medieval literature. The studied pattern « thinks » mimetic violence, corporal urges and the necessity to moderate them, in a specific symbolic and Cultural perspective. 31 janvier 201
Ezra W Zuckerman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural revolution on naming in beijing
Social Science Research Network, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural Expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of Expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporting individual Expression.
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when politics froze fashion the effect of the Cultural revolution on naming in beijing
American Journal of Sociology, 2014Co-Authors: Elena Obukhova, Ezra W Zuckerman, Jiayin ZhangAbstract:The authors examine the popularity of boys’ given names in Beijing before and after the onset of the Cultural Revolution to clarify how exogenous and endogenous factors interact to shape fashion. Whereas recent work in the sociology of culture emphasizes the importance of endogenous processes in explaining fashion, their analysis demonstrates two ways in which politics shaped Cultural Expression during the Cultural Revolution: by promoting forms of Expression reflecting prevailing political ideology and by limiting individuals’ willingness to act differently. As argued by Lieberson and developed further in this article, the second condition is important because endogenous fashion cycles require a critical mass of individuals who seek to differentiate themselves from common practice. Exogenous factors can influence the operation of the endogenous factors. The authors discuss the implications of their study for understanding the nature of conformity under authoritarian regimes and social conditions supporti...
Robbie Davisfloyd - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the technocratic body american childbirth as Cultural Expression
Social Science & Medicine, 1994Co-Authors: Robbie DavisfloydAbstract:Abstract The dominant mythology of a culture is often displayed in the rituals with which it surrounds birth. In contemporary Western society, that mythology—the mythology of the technocracy—is enacted through obstetrical procedures, the rituals of hospital birth. This article explores the links between our culture's mythological technocratic model of birth and the body images, individual belief and value systems, and birth choices of forty middle-class women—32 professional women who accept the technocratic paradigm, and eight homebirthers who reject it. The conceptual separation of mother and child is fundamental to technocratic notions of parenthood, and constitutes a logical corollary of the Cartesian mind-body separation that has been fundamental to the development of both industrial society and post-industrial technocracy. The professionals' body images and lifestyles express these principles of separation, while the holistic ideology of the homebirthers stresses mind-body and parent-child integration. The conclusion considers the ideological hegemony of the technocratic paradigm as potential future-shaper.