Chapter 20 - Analyzing Codes, Contexts, and Institutions

Ann Swidler

• believes culture as influencing human action are too simplistic
• addresses how and when culture takes on the power to constrain and guide people's actions and when it doesn't

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meaningully orientated toward the action of others and symbolic interactionalist

some systematize and unify culture, magnify its influence

structures cultural meaning by giving them a coherent logic despite ambivalence or skepticism on that part of individuals