Sociology of Knowledge of Ann Swidler

1. Where is the existential basis (thesis) of mental productions located?

Culture
2. What mental productions are being sociologically analyzed?
when the cultural expectations of an institution are transposed to a new setting, the
practices and expectations of the local network “colonize” the imported institutional
logics.
3. How are mental productions related to the existential basis?
Social organization influences
4. Why? manifest and latent functions imputed to these existentially conditioned mental
productions.
Because of the immediate shared communication and the media
5. When do the imputed relations of the existential base and knowledge obtain?
Shifts the media to knowledge and transmitted to print