Explaining culture [electronic resource] : the social pursuit of subjective order / Loren Demerath.

Alienation and anomia as a basis for theorizing culture
Knowledge-based affect and the pleasures of order
Putting our selves in order: an epistemological identity theory
The social pursuit of meaningfulness: an epistemological theory of culture
The pursuit of meaningfulness through epistemological conversation chapter six conditions for community and culture
Network position, knowledge-based affect, and cultural manipulation
Conclusion.