Swidler, A. (1986). Culture in action: Symbols and strategies. American Sociological Review, 51(2), 273–286. doi:10.2307/2095521.
Read in full on 2026-10-22 (NOTE-1075). Its two-model account is held as THEORY-890, Proposed.
Why this is here
After the owner’s U30 (“we basically have all of sociology to lean on here”), the replies put Swidler’s repertoires among the accounts the perspective view should build on rather than rename. Bears on CLAIM-417.
From the reading, 2026-10-22. CLAIM-417 cites this paper with Wacquant (LIT-1377) for a perspective’s “dispositional repertoire”. The repertoire here is not dispositional: culture works through “publicly available meanings”, not “enduring psychological proclivities implanted in individuals by their socialization” (p. 283). And the organized thing is the strategy of action built from the kit, not the kit. The paper also bears on CLAIM-420, through the Protestant ethos that outlasted its doctrine, and on CLAIM-416, through competing ideologies selected by the situations they are enacted in. See NOTE-1075.