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Late 20th century developments in social sciences and humanities have placed   particular focus on the symbolic aspects of reproduction of social order,   stressing the importance of discursive work in the process. It has become   widely accepted that discourse is profoundly embedded in society and culture,   and hence, closely related also to all forms of power and social inequality.   Therefore, it rightfully assumes a central position among the research   objects of contemporary social sciences. The aim of this article is to   critically examine the impact of the interpretive turn on the study of   culture and symbolic registers of society. The analysis focuses on three   approaches to the study of discourse, culture and society: critical discourse   analysis, Pierre Bourdieu’s sociology of culture and Jeffrey Alexander’s   strong program in cultural sociology. These approaches are further analyzed   according to their position within Burawoy’s division of sociological labor,   particularly between critical and public (engaged) sociology. Finally, the   author suggests that engagement in detailed reconstructions of discursive   manifestations of power, symbolic struggles and/or discursive codes in a   society can provide valuable insight that could open up space for social   engagement. However, in order to fully grasp the importance of symbolic   aspects for the everyday reproduction of social order, the focus of analysis   must also be placed on the role cultural traits and practices (understood as   a discursive resources like any other) play in constructing stratificational   categories, identities and distinctions, masking the very roots of   inequalities that created the perceived cultural differences in the first   place

Between the critical and the engaged: On the importance of studying symbolic aspects of the reproduction of social order