Ühtsest nimetamisest tegevuseni: integratsiooni mõistest ja objektist sotsiokultuurilise maailma uurimisel
From unitary naming to practice: of the concept and object of integration in studying the socio-cultural world

Summary/Abstract: One of the most important characteristics of the socio-cultural world considered as an object of analysis is its integration. If a model of the socio-cultural world does not represent simply a set of phenomena but an essential structure which is both the foundation and the result of the world’s operational process, then a question poses itself, namely: what exactly is the basis of this structure (or, what constitutes the coherence of the world) and what determines its unity and its units. This article considers the types of integration and the processes significant in rendering researchable the object world and in conceptualizing it; it will take as its starting points 1) the integrative mechanisms in semiotic units described by Juri Lotman and 2) the types of unity put forth by Pitirim Sorokin. I will complement them with Talcott Parsons’s view on the community as the integrative core of the social system and with Pierre Bourdieu’s notion of habitus and its role in unifying and rendering coherent the socio-cultural world.

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