Towards the World Culture Society. Florian Znaniecki’s Culturalism

Contents
Preface	11
PART I: CULTURE IN ACTION: MEANINGS, VALUES AND SENTIMENTS
1. Cultural Sociology: Tradition and New Perspectives	17
What Does the ‘Cultural Turn’ Mean?	18
Different Culturalism	21
Analytical Categoies of Culture	23
The End of a Discpline – Cultural Studies	24
The Return of Cultural Sociology – The Strong Program	24
Conclusion	26
2. Classical Cultural Sociology: Florian Znaniecki’s Impact in a New Light	27
New and Classical Cultural Sociology	27
Turning Points in Znaniecki’s Intellectual Biography	29
A series of Creative Works and Their Resonance	33
To Be or Not to B in Encyclopedias	39
Some Recollections of Znaniecki’s Ideas	43
Conclusion	46
3. The Humanistic Approach of Florian Znaniecki	49
The Noble Intellectual	49
Presuppositions of Culturalism	51
Thought and Reality	52
The Creative Evolution of Reality	53
The Historical Relativity of World-Views	54
The Elimination of the Nature – Culture Dualism	54
Data of Culture as Values	54
The Humanistic Coefficient of Sociological Order	55
The Concept of the Humanistic Coefficient	55
Sociological Order	57
Cognitive Ideals	58
‘The Intensional’ Criterion	59
Analytic Induction	59
The Basic Methodological Code	61
Conclusion: TheEthos of Sociology	63
4. Semiotic Interpretation of the Humanistic Coefficient	65
The Basic Question	65
Psychological Interpretation	66
Ways of Reception	66
Critique of the Psychologistical Interpretation	68
‘Attitude’ as an Expression of Ambivalence	69
Analysis of the Concept	71
‘Experience’ and ‘Action’	71
‘Value’ and the ‘Humanistic Coefficient’	74
Methodological Consequences	77
Semiotic Formulation of a Social Fact	77
The Peculiarity of the Sources of Knowledge and Research Procedures	79
Conclusion	82
5. An Unrecognized Forerunner of Symbolic Interactionism	83
Preliminary Arguments	85
Philosophical Sources	85
Connections with the Recognized Founders of Symbolic Interactionism	88
Towards an Analytical and Dynamic Sociological Theory	86
Frame of Reference: The Basic Ideas of Symbolic Interactionism	88
Meaning	88
Man	89
Action	90
Interaction	90
Florian Znaniecki’s Concept of Symbolic Interaction	90
Meaning	90
Man	93
Action	94
Interaction	95
Conclusion	96
6. ‘Definition of the Situation’ and the Interpretative Paradigm of Sociology	99
Some Remarks on the Role of Historical-Sociological Analyses	99
Interpretative Paradigm of Sociology	100
‘Definition of the Situation’ and Related Issues	102
Concept of the ‘Definition of the Situation’	103
Terminological Assignations	105
Conclusion	106
7. Action as a Dynamic System of Experiences and Values	107
For the Intellectual Authority of Florian Znaniecki	107
The Main Ideas of Znaniecki’s Philosophy of Culturalism	108
The Intentional Criterion of System Composition	110
Practical Experience as Basis of the Action Scheme	113
Altruism – An Example of Purely Social Action	120
Conclusion	121
8. Constructing Social Values: Cultural Approach	123
The Realness of Culture	124
Concrete Reality	125
Thinks and Values	127
The Cultural Person	129
Cultural Grounding of Communication and Cooperation	132
Social Values	134
Conclusion	136
9. Affective Society: Sentiments and Symbolic Interactions	137
Difference in Values and the Problem of Communication	137
Relative Irrationality of Social Actions	139
Emotions as a Social and Symbolical Phenomenon	144
Relevance of the Cultural Approach to Social Sentiments	155
Conclusion	158
PART II: CULTURAL ORDER AND CULTURAL CHANGE
10. The Civilization Process in Florian Znaniecki’s Views	161
The Study of Civilization	161
The Duration and Development of Culture	162
Social Unification	164
Social Integration of Culture	165
Universalization of the Civilization Process	166
Conclusion	169
11. Crisis, Conflicts and the Possibility of a Creative Development of a New Civilization	171
Znaniecki’s Culturalism	171
Surface Manifestations of Crisis – Erosion of the Leading Ideals of Western Civilization	173
Deep Crisis Conditions – Antagonizing Principles of Hitherto Systems’ Organization	177
The Possibility of a Revewed Civilization	178
Conclusion	179
12. Dialogical Versus Hegemonic Models of Interaction Between National Culture Societies	181
Nation as a Cultural Community	182
The Importance of National Cultures in the Post-Modern World	183
The Problem of the Coordination of Interaction Between the Communities of National Cultures	185
Dialogical Model of Interaction	187
Conclusion	187
13. Dynamic of Modernity: Social Systems and Cultural Change	189
Minotaur’s Labyrinth and Cheops’ Pyramid	189
Znaniecki’s Ideological Self-Portrait	190
The Idea of Modernity	191
Sociology as a Modern Science	195
System of Social Values and Cultural Change	197
Modern Social Relations and Social Roles	199
Modern Social Groups	202
National Culture Societies	203
World Culture Society	206
Conclusion	207
14. Cultural Sources of Subjectivity	209
Anthropocentrism of Znaniecki’s Culturalism	210
Cultural Becoming	214
Person and Culture	216
Conclusion	220
15. Culture and Power: Possibilities and Responsibilities for the World Society	221
How Should the Legacy of Florian Znaniecki Be Suitably Portrayed Today?	221
The Meaning of Culturalism	223
Problems of Cultural Order	229
Znaniecki as a Culturologist	232
Conclusion: Actuality of the Question About the Future of Sociology	234
REFERENCE	237
INDEX	253