The Privatization of Citizenship: How to Unthink a Knowledge Culture

Beyond the Cultural Turn: New Directions in the Study of Society and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 121-162

  Somers, Margaret R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b European University Institute   (United Kingdom)

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2. Ian Hacking, "Two Kinds of 'New Historicism' for Philosophers," New Literary History 21 (1990): 362.
3. Margaret R. Somers, "What's Political or Cultural about the Political Culture Concept? Toward an Historical Sociology of Concept Formation?" Sociological Theory 13 (1995): 113-44.
4. Margaret R. Somers "Narrating and Naturalizing Civil Society and Citizenship Theory," Sociological Theory 13 (1995): 221-65.
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11. Margaret R. Somers, "Where Is Sociology after the Historic Turn? Knowledge Cultures, Narrativity, and Historical Epistemologies," in The Historic Turn in the Human Sciences, ed. Terrence J. McDonald (Ann Arbor, 1996), pp. 53-89.
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14. Ian Hacking, e.g., "Two Kinds of 'New Historicism'" pp. 343-64.
15. The second usage is that of the Parsonian tradition of culture, e.g., Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba.
16. Somers, "What's Political or Cultural about Political Culture?"
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28. Reinhard Bendix, Nation-Building and Citizenship, enlarged ed. (Berkeley, 1977), p. 28.
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30. Margaret R. Somers and Gloria D. Gibson, "Reclaiming the Epistemological 'Other': Narrative and the Social Constitution of Identity," in Socio/ Theory and the Politics of Identity, ed. Craig Calhoun (Oxford, 1994), PP- 37-99
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42. A similar idea of "positions" in a "field" is suggested by, e.g., Pierre Bourdieu and Loic J. D. Wacquant, Invitation.
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