{"product_id":"narrative-social-structure-recep-senturk-9780804752077","title":"Narrative Social Structure: Anatomy of the Hadith Transmission Network, 610-1505","description":"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 \u003ci\u003eNarrative Social Structure\u003c\/i\u003e, Recep Senturk challenges the prevailing understandings of speech and social action, of actor and organization. Using the example of the \u003ci\u003ehadith\u003c\/i\u003e transmission network, Senturk demonstrates the synergy between speech and action in producing social reality. \u003ci\u003eHadith\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003ehadith\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Recep Senturk\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0804752079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780804752077\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Stanford University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/30\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 331\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.68w x 0.90d","brand":"Recep Senturk","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44583737753855,"sku":"9780804752077","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_94c4b950-61d9-4b07-bc0e-f913ed1aca22.jpg?v=1701883278","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/narrative-social-structure-recep-senturk-9780804752077","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}