The theory o f political culture/
Stephen Welch
- New York: Oxford University Press, 2013.
- xii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
What is a Theory of Political Culture? -- 1. Theoretical Marginalization: The Positivist Mainstream of Political Culture Research -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. Philosophical Resources: Positivism, Falsificationism, and Realism -- 1.3. Disciplinary Factors in the Inception of Political Culture Research -- 1.4. Theoretical Resources: Parsons's Theory of Social Order -- 1.5. Methodological Resources: The Theory and Measurement of Attitudes -- 1.6. Disciplinary Consolidation and the Bifurcation of Political Culture Research -- 1.7. Conclusion -- 2. Theoretical Denial: The Interpretive Alternative in Political Culture Research -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Before Interpretivism: Culturalism and Historicism -- 2.3. Weber and Interpretive Sociology -- 2.4. Interpretivism in Anthropology: Benedict, Sahlins, and Geertz -- 2.5. Conclusion -- 3. Theoretical Displacement (I): Materialist Alternatives to Political Culture Research. Note continued: 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Rational Choice Theory -- 3.3. Marxism: Culture, Ideology, and Hegemony -- 3.3.1. Origins of the Problem: The German Ideology -- 3.3.2. Gramsci: The Theory of Hegemony -- 3.3.3. Applying the Theory of Hegemony: Social History and Cultural Studies -- 3.4. Conclusion -- 4. Theoretical Displacement (II): Discursivist Critiques of Political Culture Research -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. From Hegemony to Discourse: Post-Marxism -- 4.3. Foucault: Discourse and Power -- 4.4. The Discursivist Critique of Culture in Area Studies -- 4.5. The Discursivist Critique of Culture in Anthropology -- 4.6. Conclusion -- 5. The Dualistic Ontology of Culture (I): Philosophical Arguments -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Causality, Intelligibility, and Culture -- 5.3. Wittgenstein: Rules and Practice -- 5.3.1. The Interpretive and the Anti-Theoretical Wittgenstein -- 5.3.2. The Communitarian and the Individualist Wittgenstein: From Polarity to Duality. Note continued: 5.4. Polanyi: Tacit and Articulate Knowledge -- 5.5. Searle: The Background -- 5.6. Conclusion -- 6. The Dualistic Ontology of Culture (II): Psychological Findings -- 6.1. Introduction -- 6.2. Cultural Psychology and Psychological Mechanisms -- 6.3. The Theory of Attitudes Revisited -- 6.4. Automaticity and Conscious Will -- 6.5. Conclusion -- 7. The Inertial Dynamics of Political Culture -- 7.1. Introduction -- 7.2. The Theory of Practice -- 7.3. The Dynamics of Skills -- 7.4. Skills and Political Culture: Resistance, Persistence, and Adaptive Inertia -- 7.4.1. Resistance: De-Skilling and the Limits of Control -- 7.4.2. Persistence: The Distinctiveness of Post-Communism -- 7.5. Conclusion -- 8. The Fluid Dynamics of Political Culture -- 8.1. Introduction -- 8.2. The Relationship of Discourse and Practice -- 8.3. Discourse and Causality -- 8.4. The Market Dynamics of Discourse -- 8.5. Discursive Dynamics and Political-Cultural Change -- 8.6. Conclusion.