Measuring Culture

we can look at the ways that ideas themselves travel.

we can look at the ways that ideas themselves travel.

first, that meanings always arise historically from other meaning structures, and second, that any act is predicated on a deeper meaning structure, whether theorized as “schemas,” “discourse,” or a more embodied language, such as that of “habitus.”

logic of meaning that iteratively transubstantiates interpretation and measurement

Interpretation, in its most basic form, is the process in which sociologists reconstruct that which is known or understood between people.

Defining our problem as that of the duality of interpretation and measurement

specific set of scripts, narratives, embodied practices, and schemas

Culture has turned from something that everybody in a given society has—whether that society is defined by national boundaries, language, or history—into a more stratified and segmented category.

A central theme of this work is unpacking what meaning-making actually entails.

the core issue concerning the field is increasingly the study of meaning—and, more specifically, what it means to study meaning “scientifically.