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Intellectual groups and symbolic forms

Sociological essays about modern culture

This book is a collection of articles by Boris Dubin (1946-2014), a well known Russian sociologist and historian of culture. It deals with the sociology of meaningful formations (from religion and art to ideology and mass culture): the process of their creation and evolution; reception and reproduction; patterns of symbolic expressions (measures of space and time, stereotypes of self-identification, representations of one`s social and cultural Other, forms of visual representations of experience, mass-media channels, configurations of the visual and somatic aspects); as well as societal forces, intellectual groups that form the structure and the dynamics of the phenomena of meaning-creation or, just the opposite, function as mechanisms of cultural showdown, blocking, involution. Also available by the same author: Slovo - Pis`mo – Literatura (2001). Bibliography. Name index. Summary in English.