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What steps are needed to make life better and more convivial? The Second Convivialist Manifesto (2020) has presented a short diagnosis of the current crises and sketches of a possible and desirable future. It has been a necessary work of theoretical synthesis, but preserving a viable world also requires passion. It is thus urgent to show what people would gain from a shift to a post-neoliberal and post-growth convivialist future. This volume includes a theoretical debate on convivialism which reflects dystopias and shows the multiple and major obstacles that convivialism will have to face. Mainly, however, the contributors to this volume create sketches of a convivial future and collect accounts of another future world which is attractive for as many as possible.

Drawing on French sociologist Marcel Mauss' influential theory of 'the gift', this book shows that trust is the only glue that holds societies together, and people are giving beings and they who can cooperate for the benefit of all when the logic of maximizing utility personal gain in capitalism is broken.

How does tacit knowledge inscribe itself into cultural and social practices? As the established distinction between tacit and explicit or discursive forms of knowledge does not explain this question, the contributions in this volume reconstruct, describe, and analyze the manifold processes by which the tacit reveals itself: They focus, for example, on metaphors, feelings, and visualizations as explications of the tacit as well as on processes of embodiment. Taken together, they demonstrate that the tacit does not constitute a single or unified knowledge complex, but has to be understood in its differentiated and fragmented forms. In addition to scholarly essays, the volume features interviews with Mark Johnson, Theodore Schatzki, and Loïc Wacquant.

Welche Rolle spielt Kultur in der Gesellschaft? Bereits in den Anfängen der Soziologie haben sich die Klassiker des Fachs wie Max Weber und Georg Simmel intensiv mit dieser Frage beschäftigt. Und auch gegenwärtig wird in der Soziologie intensiv über eine »neue Kulturtheorie« diskutiert. Anhand einer Auswahl von zentralen Texten vermittelt dieser Reader einen Überblick über die Kultursoziologie von ihren klassischen Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart. Das Buch gibt einen Einblick in die Spezifik kultursoziologischer Fragestellungen und die internationalen Debatten der letzten Jahre. Folgende Bereiche werden in diesem Reader behandelt: Kultur und Sozialstruktur, Kultur und Natur, Handlung und Performanz, Wissen und Kognition, Körper und Affekt, Kultur und Symbol, Moderne Subjekte, Theorien der Moderne. Mit Texten von Karl Marx, Max Weber, Émile Durkheim, Georg Simmel, Maurice Halbwachs, Talcott Parsons, Helmuth Plessner, Marcel Mauss, Karl Mannheim, Jeffrey Alexander, Niklas Luhmann, Pierre Bourdieu, Arlie R. Hochschild, Michael Tomasello, Bruno Latour, Michel Foucault, Raymond Williams, Michèle Lamont, Ronald Inglehart, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt und anderen.