This meeting: Natural Symbols by Mary Douglas
Next Meeting: 3 January 2007, Cultural Theory by Thompson, Ellis, and Wildavsky
This week's reading was Natural Symbols by Mary Douglas. It forms the backbone of grid-group analysis, which was used to develop Cultural Theory.
Douglas' intention with the book was to develop a tool that could be [...]
The meeting discussed the Grid/Group typology introduced by Mary Douglas in Chapter nine of her book “in the active voice”; ‘Cultural bias’. The typology opposes the dimension of individuation to that of social incorporation. ‘Grid’ refers to the rules to which individuals are subject in the course of their interactions whereas ‘Group’ is defined in [...]
Koichi and I decided to start a little reading group in the James Martin Institute to discuss texts about cultural theory, as we are both using the theory in our research. There are a number of others in the Institute who use and/or critique the theory, and this is a way for them and [...]