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100	1		_aWEDEEN, Lisa _911230
245	1	0	_aConceptualizing culture : _bpossibilities for political science
260			_cdec.2002
520	3		_aThis essay makes a case for an anthropological conceptualization of culture as "semiotic practices" and demonstrates how it adds value to political analyses. " Semiotic practices" refers to the processes of meaning-making in which agents' practices (e.g., their work habits, self-policing strategies, and leisure patterns) interact with their language and other symbolic systems. This version of culture can be employed on two levels. First, it refers to what symbols do - how symbols are inscribed in practices that operate to produce observable political effects. Second, "culture" is an abstract theoretical category, a lens that focuses on meaning, rather than on, say, prices or votes. By thinking of meaning construction in terms that emphasize intelligibility, as opposed to deep-seated psuchological orientations, a practice-oriented approach avoids unacknowledged ambiguities that have bedeviled sholarly thinking and generated incommensurable understandings of what culture is. Through a brief exploration of two concerns central to political science- compliance and ethnic identity-formation - this paper ends by showing how culture as semiotic practices can be applied as a causal variable
773	0	8	_tAmerican Political Science Review _g96, 4, p. 713-728 _d, dec.2002 _w
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998			_a20030204 _bLucima _cLucimara
998			_a20060726 _b1551^b _cQuiteria
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c10867 _d10867
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