Explaining culture [electronic resource] : the social pursuit of subjective order / Loren Demerath.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Alienation and anomia as a basis for theorizing culture -- Knowledge-based affect and the pleasures of order -- Putting our selves in order: an epistemological identity theory -- The social pursuit of meaningfulness: an epistemological theory of culture -- The pursuit of meaningfulness through epistemological conversation chapter six conditions for community and culture -- Network position, knowledge-based affect, and cultural manipulation -- Conclusion.

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