Modern Social Imaginaries
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Modern Social Imaginaries is a philosophical work by Charles Taylor that explores how shared social understandings and collective imaginaries shape modern Western institutions, practices, and identities.
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: Modern Social Imaginaries Context triple: [Charles Taylor, notableWork, Modern Social Imaginaries]
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The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is a seminal work of social and political theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes the historical rise and decline of the bourgeois public sphere and its implications for modern democracy and communication.
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B.
Rethinking Social Inquiry
Rethinking Social Inquiry is a methodological volume in political science that critiques and extends the quantitative, positivist approach of Designing Social Inquiry by advocating for pluralistic, case-based, and mixed-method research strategies.
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C.
The Myth of the State
The Myth of the State is a posthumously published philosophical work by Ernst Cassirer that analyzes the role of myth and symbolic thought in the rise of modern political ideologies and totalitarianism.
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The Public and Its Problems
The Public and Its Problems is a 1927 philosophical work by John Dewey that analyzes democracy, the nature of the public, and the role of communication and institutions in addressing social issues.
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In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics
In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics is a seminal collection of essays by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that helped shape postcolonial theory, feminist criticism, and deconstructive literary studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
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Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Modern Social Imaginaries Target entity description: Modern Social Imaginaries is a philosophical work by Charles Taylor that explores how shared social understandings and collective imaginaries shape modern Western institutions, practices, and identities.
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A.
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere
The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere is a seminal work of social and political theory by Jürgen Habermas that analyzes the historical rise and decline of the bourgeois public sphere and its implications for modern democracy and communication.
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B.
Rethinking Social Inquiry
Rethinking Social Inquiry is a methodological volume in political science that critiques and extends the quantitative, positivist approach of Designing Social Inquiry by advocating for pluralistic, case-based, and mixed-method research strategies.
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C.
The Myth of the State
The Myth of the State is a posthumously published philosophical work by Ernst Cassirer that analyzes the role of myth and symbolic thought in the rise of modern political ideologies and totalitarianism.
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D.
The Public and Its Problems
The Public and Its Problems is a 1927 philosophical work by John Dewey that analyzes democracy, the nature of the public, and the role of communication and institutions in addressing social issues.
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E.
In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics
In Other Worlds: Essays in Cultural Politics is a seminal collection of essays by Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak that helped shape postcolonial theory, feminist criticism, and deconstructive literary studies.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (52)
| Predicate | Object |
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| instanceOf |
book
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philosophical work ⓘ |
| argues |
modern moral order is historically specific
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modern societies are structured by shared social imaginaries ⓘ social imaginaries underlie institutions and practices ⓘ |
| author | Charles Taylor ⓘ |
| examines |
emergence of the modern public sphere
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formation of modern Western institutions ⓘ historical development of modern social imaginaries ⓘ relationship between imaginaries and identities ⓘ relationship between imaginaries and institutions ⓘ relationship between imaginaries and practices ⓘ |
| focusesOnPeriod | modern era ⓘ |
| focusesOnRegion |
the West
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surface form:
Western world
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| hasConcept |
background understanding
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disciplinary society ⓘ economy ⓘ moral order ⓘ mutual benefit ⓘ popular sovereignty ⓘ public sphere ⓘ social imaginary ⓘ social imaginary of self-governance ⓘ social imaginary of the market ⓘ social imaginary of the public sphere ⓘ |
| hasInfluenceOn |
cultural studies
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political theory ⓘ religious studies ⓘ social theory ⓘ sociology of religion ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| mainTopic |
Western modernity
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collective imaginaries ⓘ democracy ⓘ institutions ⓘ modern identities ⓘ modern social order ⓘ modernity ⓘ political philosophy ⓘ public sphere ⓘ secularity ⓘ shared social understandings ⓘ social imaginaries ⓘ social practices ⓘ social theory ⓘ |
| philosophicalDiscipline |
philosophy of social science
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political philosophy ⓘ social philosophy ⓘ |
| philosophicalTradition |
continental philosophy
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hermeneutics ⓘ |
| relatedWork |
A Secular Age
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Sources of the Self ⓘ |
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