Culture as Figurative Action

Culture as Figurative Action

Police culture is used as the substantive focus for a critique of the conception of culture as a set of rules that generate action, and as a basis for developing an alternative model. Ideas from anthropological and literary theory are used to propose a conception of culture as a figurative resource...

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Veröffentlicht in:The British journal of sociology 1991-12, Vol.42 (4), p.481-506
Hauptverfasser: Shearing, Clifford D., Ericson, Richard V.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Cultural Values
Culture
Cultures and civilizations
Ethnomethodology
General studies
Literary tropes
Literature
Narrative poetry
Normativity
Poetry
Police
Police services
Reasoning
Social Control
Sociocultural Factors
Sociology
Subjectivity
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Zusammenfassung:Police culture is used as the substantive focus for a critique of the conception of culture as a set of rules that generate action, and as a basis for developing an alternative model. Ideas from anthropological and literary theory are used to propose a conception of culture as a figurative resource made available through stories that construct a sensibility out of which action arises.
ISSN:0007-1315
1468-4446
1468-4446
DOI:10.2307/591444