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  1. Gramsci and Left Managerialism.Kees van der Pijl - 2005 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 8 (4):499-511.
    Abstract This essay argues that one way of understanding Gramsci today is as an organic intellectual of a class of managerial cadre which develops in advanced capitalism. With the growth of monopolistic structures and a deepening state role in capitalist society, a separate class of mediating functionaries emerges, entrusted with managerial tasks in running the economy and the state. The problems of conquering power from the perspective of this ?new middle class? that concerned Gramsci, were also those of the neo?Machiavellian (...)
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  • Autonomy-Based Reasons for Limitarianism.Danielle Zwarthoed - 2018 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21 (5):1181-1204.
    This paper aims to provide autonomy-based reasons in favour of limitarianism. Limitarianism affirms it is of primary moral importance that no one gets too much. The paper challenges the standard assumption that having more material resources always increases autonomy. It expounds five mechanisms through which having too much material wealth might undermine autonomy. If these hypotheses are true, a theory of justice guided by a concern for autonomy will support a limitarian distribution of wealth. Finally, the paper discusses two issues (...)
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  • On the Elementary Forms of the Socioerotic Life.Sasha Weitman - 1998 - Theory, Culture and Society 15 (3-4):71-110.
    In this article I undertake an analysis of erotic sexual intercourse - commonly, and more accurately, designated as love-making - in the spirit of Durkheim's social analysis of religion. Thus, based on a phenomenological semiotic analysis of the peculiar things we do and feel in the course of making love, I propose, first, to uncover the implicit `logic' that generates and governs these distinctly sociable doings and sociable feelings. Second, I proceed to suggest that the sameself logic, albeit in an (...)
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  • Consistent Forecasting vs. Anchoring of Market Stories: Two Cultures of Modeling and Model Use in a Bank.Leon Wansleben - 2014 - Science in Context 27 (4):605-630.
    ArgumentIt seems theoretically convenient to construe knowledge practices in financial markets and organizations as “applied economics.” Alternatively or additionally, one might argue that practitioners draw on economic knowledge in order to systematically orient their actions towards profit-maximization; models, then, are understood as devices that make calculative rationality possible. However, empirical studies do not entirely confirm these theoretical positions: Practitioners’ actual calculations are often not “framed” by models; organizations and institutions influence the choice and adoption of models; and different professional groups (...)
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  • Construction and Deconstruction of Essence in Representating Social Groups: Identity Projects, Stereotyping, and Racism.Wolfgang Wagner, Peter Holtz & Yoshihisa Kashima - 2009 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 39 (3):363-383.
    Projecting essence onto a social category means to think, talk, and act as if the category were a discrete natural kind and as if its members were all endowed with the same immutable attributes determined by the category's essence. Essentializing may happen implicitly or on purpose in representing ingroups and outgroups. We argue that essentializing is a versatile representational tool that is used to create identity in groups with chosen membership in order to make the group appear as a unitary (...)
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  • Carnal concepts in action: The diagonal sociology of Loïc Wacquant.Loïc Wacquant & Dieter Vandebroeck - 2024 - Thesis Eleven 180 (1):111-143.
    Written in the form of a dialogue with Brussels sociologist Dieter Vandebroeck, this article retraces the social and intellectual trajectory of Loïc Wacquant as stepping stone to reviewing and discussing the major concepts coined and theoretical propositions elaborated in the course of his research on comparative urban marginality, racial domination, the ghetto, the penal state, neoliberalism, and carnality. This provides an opportunity to specify the relationships between ethnography, history and theory; the dialectic of domination and resistance; the role of public (...)
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  • Aesthetics and Bildung.Pauline von Bonsdorff - 2012 - Diogenes 59 (1-2):127-137.
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  • The arts and the future city.Laura Verdi - 2008 - World Futures 64 (1):34 – 42.
    The framework in which, better than in any other, cultural complexity becomes clear as a network of perspectives is the city: it is here that the greatest variety of subcultures, together with the widest range of contrasting modalities, seems able to handle its meaning. The city is at the same time an active place of cultural production and a passive and active place of memory keeping. It fuels styles and models of sensitivity also, and especially, through art and architecture. Therefore, (...)
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  • Subjectivity in gradable adjectives: The case of tall_ and _heavy.Steven Verheyen, Sabrina Dewil & Paul Égré - 2018 - Mind and Language 33 (5):460-479.
    We present an investigation of the ways in which speakers' subjective perspectives are likely to affect the meaning of gradable adjectives like tall or heavy. We present the results of a study showing that people tend to use themselves as a yardstick when ascribing these adjectives to human figures of varied measurements: subjects' height and weight requirements for applying tall and heavy are found to be positively correlated with their personal measurements. We draw more general lessons regarding the definition of (...)
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  • Citizenship and Exclusion.Bader Veit - 1995 - Political Theory 23 (2):211-246.
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  • Network.Joost van Loon - 2006 - Theory, Culture and Society 23 (2-3):307-314.
    Network is a device for organizing and conceptualizing non-linear complexity. Networks defy narrative, chronology and thus also genealogy because they entail a multiplicity of traces. Networks problematize boundaries and centrality but intensify our ability to think in terms of flows and simultaneity. As a concept, network has been highly conducive to theorizing phenomena and processes such as globalization, digital media, speed, symbiosis and complexity. This in turn enables us to rethink what constitutes the foundations of intelligence, knowledge and even life (...)
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  • Multidimensional Food Poverty: Evidence from Low-Income Single Mothers in Contemporary Japan.Haruka Ueda - 2023 - Food Ethics 8 (2):1-24.
    The objective of this article is to gain an in-depth understanding of the eating lives of low-income single mothers in Japan. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with nine low-income single mothers living in the three largest urban areas (Tokyo, Hanshin [Osaka and Kobe] and Nagoya) in Japan. Framed by the capability approach and sociology of food, their dietary norms and practices, as well as underlying factors that impact the norm-practice gap were analysed across nine dimensions: meal frequency, place of eating, meal (...)
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  • The Ageing Body and the Ontology of Ageing: Athletic Competence in Later Life.Emmanuelle Tulle - 2008 - Body and Society 14 (3):1-19.
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  • Bourdieusian Reflections on Language: Unavoidable Conditions of the Real Speech Situation.Simon Susen - 2013 - Social Epistemology 27 (3-4):199-246.
    The main purpose of this paper is to shed light on Pierre Bourdieu’s conception of language. Although he has dedicated a significant part of his work to the study of language and even though his analysis of language has been extensively discussed in the literature, almost no attention has been paid to the fact that Bourdieu’s account of language is based on a number of ontological presuppositions, that is, on a set of universal assumptions about the very nature of language. (...)
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  • Norms and divine. A question to Thaddeus Metz.Paul Slama - 2021 - International Journal of Philosophy and Theology 82 (4-5):350-360.
    ABSTRACT This article questions Metz’s purification of the evaluative subject, and wishes to pose the theological question concerning the meaning of life from a normative and social conception of subjectivity. Before asking whether or not God is indispensable to the meaning of life, it is first necessary to identify the ways in which God is hidden in the fundamental evaluations that the contemporary subject makes in the globalized capitalist world.
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  • The `System of Pleasure': Liminality and the Carnivalesque at Brighton.Rob Shields - 1990 - Theory, Culture and Society 7 (1):39-72.
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  • Art as an Autopoietic Sub-System of Modern Society.Erkki Sevänen - 2001 - Theory, Culture and Society 18 (1):75-103.
    This article is concerned with Niklas Luhmann's theory of art which he formulated in the 1990s, based on his general theory of autopoietic systems. This theory regards modern society as a functionally differentiated formation whose sub-systems operate according to their inner principles of communication. According to this, the domain of art can also be seen as an operationally closed and self-referential communicative system. The basic problem in these notions lies in the way in which their description of the relationships existing (...)
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  • The culture industry revisited: Sociophilosophical reflections on ‘privacy’ in the digital age.Sandra Seubert & Carlos Becker - 2019 - Philosophy and Social Criticism 45 (8):930-947.
    Digital communication now pervades all spheres of life, creating new possibilities for commodification: personal data and communication are the new resources of surplus value. This in turn brings about a totally new category of threats to privacy. With recourse to the culture industry critique of early critical theory, this article seeks to challenge basic theoretical assumptions held within a liberal account of privacy. It draws the attention to the entanglement of technical and socio-economic transformations and aims at elaborating an alternative (...)
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  • Trust, choice and routines: Putting the consumer on trial.Roberta Sassatelli - 2001 - Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 4 (4):84-105.
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  • Intentional action and pure causality: A critical discussion of some central conceptual distinctions in the work of Jon Elster.Tore Sandven - 1995 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 25 (3):286-317.
    This article discusses fundamental problems in "rational choice theory," as outlined by Jon Elster. Elster's discussion of why institutions may not be said to act shows his fundamental presupposition that only "monolithic," unitary entities are capable of action. This is, for him, a reason why only individual human beings may be said to act. Furthermore, human beings may be said to act only insofar as they "maximize" (their "utility") on the basis of a unitary, complete, consistent "preference structure." All action (...)
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  • Autonomy, Adaptation, and Rationality—A Critical Discussion of Jon Elster’s Concept of “Sour Grapes,” Part I.Tore Sandven - 1999 - Philosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (1):3-31.
    This article argues against Jon Elster’s contention that there is a fundamental incompatibility between, on the one hand, autonomy and rationality, and, on the other hand, adaptation to the conditions of one’s existence in the sense that one’s desires or preferences are adjusted to what it is possible to achieve. It is claimed that Elster’s conclusions are premised on a defective conception of human faculties and powers, including a defective conception of human experience and rationality. Moreover, the claim is made (...)
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  • The Shield of Pascal.Derek Robbins - 1999 - European Journal of Social Theory 2 (3):307-316.
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  • Review. [REVIEW]Derek Robbins - 2001 - European Journal of Social Theory 4 (3):369-373.
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  • Pierre Bourdieu: E-Special Issue Introduction.Derek Robbins - 2021 - Theory, Culture and Society 38 (7-8):325-353.
    This e-special issue explores the reception of Bourdieu’s work in one journal, Theory, Culture & Society, which commenced at about the same time that Bourdieu was beginning to acquire an international reputation. It offers a case-study of the English representation of Bourdieu’s work through almost 40 years and focuses on the role of the journal in carrying Bourdieu’s work across cultural boundaries. It introduces the scope of that work but, primarily, it is designed to encourage reference to his texts in (...)
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  • The Affective Scope: Entering China's Urban Moral and Economic World Through Its Emotional Disturbances.Jean-Baptiste Pettier - 2016 - Anthropology of Consciousness 27 (1):75-96.
    From an outsider's perspective, today's Popular China might appear as a self-confident and triumphant country. However, a large-scale examination of the country's recent moral controversies reveals a very different picture, one that has much to do with the widespread local public perception of an ongoing “moral crisis”, whose examination requires careful attention placed on the ethical and affective aspects of the everyday lives of today's Chinese people. In this article, I propose to examine the anguish that Chinese bachelor youths and (...)
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  • It’s the Conscience Collective, Stupid: Philosophical Aesthetics and the Sociology of Art.Andrew Milner - 2010 - Thesis Eleven 103 (1):26-34.
    The article begins with a sociologically triumphalist critique of philosophical aesthetics, grounded in the work of Ernest Gellner and Emile Durkheim. It proceeds to note the practical failure of this kind of sociology to become institutionalized within the wider discipline. It explores a number of possible explanations for this failure, but finally suggests that a normalized sociology of art requires a normalized conception of art itself, such as that tentatively advanced by Pierre Bourdieu and Franco Moretti. The article also has (...)
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  • Tecnología y marketing: el papel de la retórica comercial en el desarrollo de dispositivos de navegación.Pedro Mendonça - 2012 - Arbor 188 (753):229-241.
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  • Critical theory and contemporary social movements: Conceptualizing resistance in the neoliberal age.Charles Masquelier - 2013 - European Journal of Social Theory 16 (4):395-412.
    The advent of an unregulated and financial form of capitalism, combined with a sharp rise in income inequalities and economic insecurity since the 1970s, appears to pose, at first glance, a significant challenge for the relevance of the works of first-generation critical theorists, which are often confined to an historically specific ‘artistic’ critique of the bureaucratic stage of capitalist development. Through an analysis of the various concerns and demands expressed by members of the alter-globalization and Occupy movements, the article nevertheless (...)
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  • 13. Inter-Ethnic Football in The Balkans: Reconciliation and Diversity.Anders Levinsen - 2009 - Sport, Ethics and Philosophy 3 (3):346-359.
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  • The Clothes Have No Emperor.Charles Lemert - 2000 - Theory, Culture and Society 17 (1):97-106.
    `The Clothes Have No Emperor' means to say that Bourdieu's criticism of American imperialism is an understandable slip of his brilliant visual sociology. He writes to those of a disposition to agree completely because they know the facts all the better. Bourdieu may well be the only person alive today who has so perfectly combined theoretical, empirical and political work. Why then has he allowed this critique to be published for all the world to see? Not, I think, because he (...)
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  • Recognition and Redistribution: Rethinking N. Fraser's Dualistic Model.Christian Lazzeri - 2009 - Critical Horizons 10 (3):307-340.
    It can be argued that Nancy Fraser's work integrates the concepts of recognition and redistribution by questioning the definition of the concept of recognition in order to bring it closer to the practical scope of redistribution. One of the difficulties raised by the concept of recognition is that it can appear as a kind of social monism by presenting culture as the main factor behind all social criticism, and thus, behind all kinds of claims and conflicts. However, it is possible (...)
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  • La contrainte faite vertu. Sens et enjeux du mot coactus chez Spinoza.Jacques-Louis Lantoine - 2024 - Dialogue 63 (1):169-184.
    The opposition between constraint and free necessity leads Spinoza's commentators to conceive of ethical liberation as a reconciliation with one's self against alienations due to external causes, and to confuse constraint with contrariety. Analysis of the word coactus in Spinoza's works shows that finite modes can't exist and can't free themselves without constraints, which are not always a source of contrariety. Such an analysis is close to those of Émile Durkheim and Pierre Bourdieu.
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  • Immanuel Kant on the philosophy of communicology: The tropic logic of rhetoric and semiotics.Richard L. Lanigan - 2019 - Semiotica 2019 (227):273-315.
    The article consists of a brief biographical account of Immanuel Kant’s life and career, followed by a discussion of his basic philosophy, and a brief discussion of his pivotal point in the history of Rhetoric and Communicology. A major figure in the European Enlightenment period of Philosophy, his Collected Writings were first published in 1900 constituting 29 volumes. He wrote three major works that are foundational to the development of Western philosophy and the human sciences. Often just referred to as (...)
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  • Book review: Frances Bonner, Personality Presenters: Television’s Intermediaries with Viewers. [REVIEW]Yves Laberge - 2014 - Discourse and Communication 8 (1):105-107.
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  • A requiem for the `primitive'.Fuyuki Kurasawa - 2002 - History of the Human Sciences 15 (3):1-24.
    This article argues that the implications of the recent eclipse of the construct of the `primitive' for the practice of the human sciences have not been adequately pondered. It asks, therefore, why and how the myth of primitiveness has been sustained by the human sciences, and what purposes it has served for the modern West's self-understanding. To attempt to answer such a query, the article pursues two principal lines of inquiry. In order to appreciate what is potentially being lost, the (...)
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  • On the re-materialization of the virtual.Ismo Kantola - 2013 - AI and Society 28 (2):189-198.
    The so-called new economy based on the global network of digitalized communication was welcomed as a platform of innovations and as a vehicle of advancement of democracy. The concept of virtuality captures the essence of the new economy: efficiency and free access. In practice, the new economy has developed into an heterogenic entity dominated by practices such as propagation of trust and commitment to standards and standard-like technological solutions; entrenchment of locally strategic subsystems; surveillance of unwanted behavior. Five empirical cases (...)
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  • How not to historicize theory.Fredric Jameson - 2008 - Critical Inquiry 34 (3):563-582.
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  • Reviews. [REVIEW]David Inglis - 2003 - European Journal of Social Theory 6 (2):253-257.
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  • An Intermediary Between Production and Consumption: The Producer of Popular Music.Antoine Hennion - 1989 - Science, Technology and Human Values 14 (4):400-424.
    Trying to reduce the divide between culture and science, this article follows the producer of popular records, as an interface between music and its market. Like the innovator when he does not obey scientific, technical, and commercial reasons in succession, but reshapes them all together through a double task of giving its form to the product and the interesting people within it, the producer represents the public to the artist and the music to the media. First in a local scale, (...)
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  • The Sociology of Vocational Prizes.Nathalie Heinich - 2009 - Theory, Culture and Society 26 (5):85-107.
    Artistic and scientific activities pertain to the world of ‘vocation’, which demonstrates a close relationship with recognition issues. Referring to recent trends in French, German and American sociology and political philosophy, this article addresses both the status of recognition in present-day sociology and the necessity of prizes in vocational activities. Grounded on two empirical surveys about literary and scientific prizes, it displays the various axiological problems raised by such a mode of recognition, as the ‘felicity conditions’ of this mode of (...)
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  • A Pragmatic Redefinition of Value(s): Toward a General Model of Valuation.Nathalie Heinich - 2020 - Theory, Culture and Society 37 (5):75-94.
    This paper is intended to draw the main theoretical lines of the notion of value, in order to avoid some flaws in the quantitative surveys on values as well as in some qualitative studies of value judgements. Through a number of redefinitions based on a pragmatic approach, inspired not only by Dewey’s concept of ‘valuation’ but also by the new French pragmatic sociology and by the pragmatist trend in linguistics, it tries to specify the conditions under which sociology can address (...)
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  • Acknowledging Substances: Looking at the Hidden Side of the Material World. [REVIEW]Hans Peter Hahn & Jens Soentgen - 2011 - Philosophy and Technology 24 (1):19-33.
    Material culture, strictly speaking, is substance culture. Nevertheless, studies on material culture are almost exclusively concerned with things. The specificities in the perception of substances and the related everyday practices are rarely taken into consideration. Although this can be explained by the history of anthropology, the bias towards associating material culture with “formed matter” is a foundational shortcoming. In consequence, particular perspectives on the material remain understudied, and the cultural relevance of substances as such is rarely taken into consideration. Taking (...)
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  • Racial capitalism, ruling elite business entanglement and the impasse of black economic empowerment policy in South Africa.Alexis Habiyaremye - 2022 - African Journal of Business Ethics 16 (1):25-41.
    The high rate of inequality in South Africa is rooted in colonial dispossession and racial exploitation, and still runs primarily along the racial divide. Policy initiatives taken to redress past economic injustices through the black economic empowerment (BEE) have failed to bring economic transformation. Using the twin lenses of epistemic violence and racial capitalism, this study analyses how entangled interests aimed to co-opt the ruling party elite by the apartheid-era business elite led to the BEE impasse. The pervasiveness of cultural (...)
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  • Revisiting Fromm and Bourdieu: Contributions to habitus and realism.Carmen M. Grillo - 2018 - Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 48 (4):416-432.
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  • Non-conventional/illegal political participation of male and female youths.Claire Gavray, Bernard Fournier & Michel Born - 2012 - Human Affairs 22 (3):405-418.
    Belgian data from the PIDOP project show that boys are more involved than girls in illegal political actions, namely the production of graffiti and other acts of “incivility”. These activities must be considered in both groups as complementary to conventional political and social participation and not as their opposite. The main explanatory factor is the level of the perceived efficaciousness of such actions. The lack of trust in institutions and the level of awareness of societal discrimination play no significant explanatory (...)
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  • Recherches galiléennes.Egidio Festa, Denis Savoie & Marta Spranzi - 1995 - Revue de Synthèse 116 (1):133-150.
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  • Why and How Did Narrative Fictions Evolve? Fictions as Entertainment Technologies.Edgar Dubourg & Nicolas Baumard - 2022 - Frontiers in Psychology 13:786770.
    Narrative fictions have surely become the single most widespread source of entertainment in the world. In their free time, humans read novels and comics, watch movies and TV series, and play video games: they consume stories that they know to be false. Such behaviors are expanding at lightning speed in modern societies. Yet, the question of the origin of fictions has been an evolutionary puzzle for decades: Are fictions biological adaptations, or the by-products of cognitive mechanisms that evolved for another (...)
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  • The evolution of music: One trait, many ultimate-level explanations.Edgar Dubourg, Jean-Baptiste André & Nicolas Baumard - 2021 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 44.
    We propose an approach reconciling the ultimate-level explanations proposed by Savage et al. and Mehr et al. as to why music evolved. We also question the current adaptationist view of culture, which too often fails to disentangle distinct fitness benefits.
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  • Imaginary worlds through the evolutionary lens: Ultimate functions, proximate mechanisms, cultural distribution.Edgar Dubourg & Nicolas Baumard - 2022 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 45:e309.
    We received several commentaries both challenging and supporting our hypothesis. We thank the commentators for their thoughtful contributions, bringing together alternative hypotheses, complementary explanations, and appropriate corrections to our model. Here, we explain further our hypothesis, using more explicitly the framework of evolutionary social sciences. We first explain what we believe is the ultimate function of fiction in general (i.e., entertainment) and how this hypothesis differs from other evolutionary hypotheses put forward by several commentators. We then turn to the proximate (...)
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  • Bourdieu’s legacy.Mathieu Desan - 2013 - Thesis Eleven 117 (1):135-143.
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