Archive: sociology of culture

• One-Stop-Shop Artifacts & Cultural Models

  By MRazavi September 27, 2012

  American society today functions through a fundamental cultural schema Bradd Shore identifies in his book "Culture in Mind" (1996) as the “modularity schema.” This mode of thought is pervasive in post

  Categories: 2012, The Gnovis Blog Tags: American Dream, culture, culture & mind, sociology, sociology of culture

• The Internet is…: Globalizing Adolescence & Adolescent Globalization

  By MRazavi April 25, 2012

  This essay shamelessly attempts one of the most common fads of our time: that is, taking the Internet and stuffing it into one singular box with one singular framework and thus one singular effect.  M

  Categories: 2012, Globalization Column, The Gnovis Blog Tags: academia, adolescence, culture, development, ethnography, generation y, globalization, identity, identity construction, internet, internet use, sociology of culture