Wendy Griswold

“He (Zerubavel) draws attention to the social influences on perception (what people notice), attention and concern (what people care about), classification (how…

— Wendy Griswold

“We known the past - and shape our schemas about it - through memory, history, and relics but also through imagination. With…

— Wendy Griswold

“Recall Clifford Geertz definition of culture: "an historically transmitted pattern of meanings embodied in symbols, a system of inherited conceptions expressed in…

— Wendy Griswold

“History is complex, with levels of detail; it must be taught and may not be known by all members of the group.…

— Wendy Griswold

“...printing and the proliferation of written materials allowed ordinary people to be members of any number of relational communities.”

— Wendy Griswold

“Many live where they must, not where they choose, yet still endeavor to form lifestyle enclaves to whatever degree they are able.…

— Wendy Griswold

“Identities are the key to political thought and action. IF cultural creators can frame their message so it resonates with a frame…

— Wendy Griswold

“Two intellectual consequences of literacy were the separation of history from myth and the increased individualism based on highly specialized knowledge. In…

— Wendy Griswold

“Paul DiMaggio (1997) has looked at the interaction between cognition and social life. He notes that under everyday circumstances, people organize information…

— Wendy Griswold

“We have seen some of the mechanisms whereby culture serves the interests of power, including making something legitimate, moral, or common sense.…

— Wendy Griswold

“Power holders as well as seekers of power work to legitimate their chosen frames through rituals and symbols. We saw earlier that…

— Wendy Griswold

“Charles Cooley (1956) wrote that primary groups, those groups such as the family and neighborhood where we have our earliest and most…

— Wendy Griswold

“A more general statement of Davies's point would be that when institutions and meaning systems are threatened or disrupted, it may not…

— Wendy Griswold

“Power gets legitimated through schemas; if there is an underlying schema that says that men are more decisive than women, this schema…

— Wendy Griswold

“Information and Communication technologies have not so much changed cultural practices as reproduced and facilitated them. Groups and nations become networks, and…

— Wendy Griswold