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It is generally recognized that the theoretical status of studies on political culture is precarious, but the importance of the latter as a dimension of political societies is such that, despite its gaps, it must continue to be used as an analytical concept. After establishing the elements of a conceptual schema of culture, the interaction between political culture & social & political structures is discussed, & some methodological considerations are offered that are capable of strengthening empirical research against the biases inherent in functionalism. 1 Table, 1 Figure. Modified HA.

Résumé Parallèlement aux mutations sociales et aux émergences politiques qui caractérisent l'actuel moment postcolonial en France, les postcolonial studies d'inspiration anglo-américaine commencent à se faire plus visibles dans la recherche. Christine Chivallon, pionnière de l'étude des peuples afro-caribéens et de leurs migrations « diasporiques », se montre désabusée : si les études postcoloniales possèdent une charge critique potentiellement forte et libératrice dans le contexte universitaire et politique français, elles devraient cependant, selon elle, se méfier de certains travers, notamment la tendance à fétichiser l'hybridité aux dépens d'une pleine compréhension des « constances identitaires ». Ailleurs, les recherches menées sous le signe du postcolonial se sont parfois transformées en exercices de style académiques – et en France ?

III. 1. Prof. Syed M. Naguib Al-Attas, who teaches Malayan literature at the University Kebangsaan of Kuala Lumpur, is known for his studies on Malayan mysticism and his new ideas on the role of Islam in the Archipelago. On the occasion of his inaugural lesson, given last January, he summarized some of his principal conceptions; in a long text, some passages of which Denys Lombard has translated here, the author takes up a position against the Indianists who insist on exaggerating the importance of the "Indo-Javanese" period, and presents the arrival of Islam as marking a great intellectual revolution, the only ' renovation" worthy of the name that ever occurred in South-East Asia.

D'après cet article, qui s'inscrit dans la ligne du courant des Critical Legal Studies qui s'est développé aux États-Unis, le droit devrait être appréhendé comme une activité culturelle créatrice de sens et les implications de cette perspective pour une pratique juridique soucieuse de changement social y sont explorées. L'auteur attaque la rationalité analytique, trop technicienne, qui caractérise le raisonnement juridique et montre comment cette conception « objective » de la culture juridique est venue à bout, par le passé, de mouvements sociaux, lorsque ceux-ci, inévitablement, ont pénétré l'arène juridique. Il plaide en faveur d'une approche de la pratique du droit de l'intérêt public qui soit aussi sensible que cognitive, symbolique qu'analytique, passionnée que rationnelle. Il donne des exemples d'une telle stratégie.

Between 1938 and 1942, border-crossing Norwegian-Canadian author Martha Ostenso published three short stories in Chatelaine magazine, stories that engage in complex ways with themes of femininity, nationalism, and consumerism. In this article, we consider how the context of Chatelaine shapes and complicates readings of these stories by placing the stories in conversation with surrounding material, including advertisements and editorial content. The fiction, we argue, unsettles romantic tropes and nationalist rhetoric, and contests the correlation between the attainment of happiness and the acceptance of class and gender norms. In examining authorial identity, textual complexity, and print cultural contexts, we show how middlebrow magazines are a vibrant means of understanding middle-class culture's anxieties and aspirations.

"Der Strukturwandel der Bergarbeiter ist in sozialer und kultureller Hinsicht häufig nur schwer zu verstehen. In Kohlenbecken, in monoindustriell strukturierten Regionen, hat sich eine spezifische Soziokultur im Laufe von Jahrzehnten herausgebildet, die durch nichts - allenfalls von der Massenkultur zum Zeitpunkt der Zechenschließungen zu Beginn der Arbeitslosigkeit für die meisten Arbeiter - ersetzt werden konnte. Zwischen Erinnerungsarbeit und notwendigem Strukturwandel den richtigen Weg zu finden, ist häufig nicht einfach. Will man die noch immer bestehenden mentalen Strukturen der Bergarbeiter verstehen, versucht man die Hemmnisse, die den Strukturwandel bremsen, zu überwinden, bietet sich dafür eventuell eine Analyse der Darstellungen dieser Berufsgruppe an, wie jene, die neuerdings vor allem das englische Kino liefert. Wichtig wäre es zudem auch, sich für andere mentale Merkmale dieser einzigartigen sozialen Gruppe zu interessieren, so etwa ihre Bindung an das System der sozialen Fürsorge, seine Wohnungsstruktur, aber auch ihre Identität mit Regionen, die auf den ersten Blick nicht allzu anziehend sind." (Autorenreferat)

A number of social sciences studies have built a "familialistic-parochial-localistic" paradigm since the early 1960s in order to characterize the Italian political culture. Such a paradigm was criticized in the last decade. This article wants to test it empirically on the basis of available opinion polls. It appears that the feeling of national identity is weak if we consider it only under its "civic" aspect (ie, the satisfaction vis-a-vis the political system). Once we include the idea of being part of a cultural community, then such a feeling is clearly more significant, & Italy appears as a more "normal" nation than it usually seems. 10 Tables, 1 Figure, 48 References. Adapted from the source document.

Marc Raeff, Georgii Florovskii historian of Russian religious culture.
Priest, philosopher and historian Father Georgii Florovskii completed his studies in emigration. The experiences of revolution and civil war, as well as the impact of Western thinkers and of a Christian, personalist philosophical anthropology, laid the foundation for his rejection of historical determinism and of all utopianism in social and philosophical speculation. His major historical work, Puti russkogo bogosloviia, rooted in this philosophy and using a contextualist approach, marks a watershed in Russian intellectual history and its historiography. The paper briefly points out the major concepts and contributions of the seminal book.