“Paul DiMaggio (1997) has looked at the interaction between cognition and social life. He notes that under everyday circumstances, people organize information via automatic cognition, using "culturally available schemata - knowledge structures that represent objects of events and provide default… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share Image
“He (Zerubavel) draws attention to the social influences on perception (what people notice), attention and concern (what people care about), classification (how people categorize… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“We known the past - and shape our schemas about it - through memory, history, and relics but also through imagination. With such aids,… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Recall Clifford Geertz definition of culture: "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in symbolic forms… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“History is complex, with levels of detail; it must be taught and may not be known by all members of the group. Collective memory,… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“...printing and the proliferation of written materials allowed ordinary people to be members of any number of relational communities.” — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Many live where they must, not where they choose, yet still endeavor to form lifestyle enclaves to whatever degree they are able. Simlarly, people… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Identities are the key to political thought and action. IF cultural creators can frame their message so it resonates with a frame that the… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Two intellectual consequences of literacy were the separation of history from myth and the increased individualism based on highly specialized knowledge. In literate cultures,… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Paul DiMaggio (1997) has looked at the interaction between cognition and social life. He notes that under everyday circumstances, people organize information via automatic… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“We have seen some of the mechanisms whereby culture serves the interests of power, including making something legitimate, moral, or common sense. One of… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Power holders as well as seekers of power work to legitimate their chosen frames through rituals and symbols. We saw earlier that this is… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Charles Cooley (1956) wrote that primary groups, those groups such as the family and neighborhood where we have our earliest and most intimate interactions,… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“A more general statement of Davies's point would be that when institutions and meaning systems are threatened or disrupted, it may not be the… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Power gets legitimated through schemas; if there is an underlying schema that says that men are more decisive than women, this schema will structure… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
“Information and Communication technologies have not so much changed cultural practices as reproduced and facilitated them. Groups and nations become networks, and in doing… — Wendy Griswold Copy Share
