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Narrative Social Structure
Recep ?entürk
其他書名
Anatomy of the Hadith Transmission Network, 610-1505
出版
Stanford University Press
, 2005
主題
Social Science / Sociology / General
History / Middle East / General
Religion / Islam / History
Social Science / Sociology of Religion
ISBN
0804752079
9780804752077
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=WaMbabqdxQMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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In both the social sciences and the humanities, current scholarship typically examines speech and social action as separate entities. But do they truly act in isolation? In
Narrative Social Structure
, Recep Senturk challenges the prevailing understandings of speech and social action, of actor and organization.
Using the example of the
hadith
transmission network, Senturk demonstrates the synergy between speech and action in producing social reality.
Hadith
, a brief narrative about the Prophet Muhammad transmitted across generations by a chain of narrators, represents the longest recorded social network presently known to sociologists and historians.
This book presents the first attempt by a sociologist to unearth the long
hadith
transmission network from ancient historical sources and analyze it using the most recent qualitative and quantitative analytical tools. It demonstrates how both synchronic and diachronic analyses uncover the structure of generational and inter-generational discourse networks used in the process of identity and authority formation. The author concludes that these networks of narrative are constantly at work in the world. Even if we are not aware of it, we are always part of them.