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Photos: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer Nature; Christian Morgner’s personal archive
Professor Christian Morgner of the University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom, an external associate of the Department of Sociology at the Faculty of Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, has published The Making of Meaning and the Making of Society with Palgrave Macmillan.
In the book, Morgner develops a sociological framework for understanding how societies produce and transform meaning. Central to this framework is the concept of relational meaning-making, through which meanings emerge and become established in specific social situations while remaining open to alternative interpretations and possibilities.
Revisiting Weber’s concept of meaning (Sinn) and Alfred Schütz’s phenomenology, and drawing on the contributions of George Herbert Mead and Talcott Parsons, the author re-examines identity, agency and social structures. Particular attention is given to the contemporary crisis of meaning and the role of communication, politics, digital technologies and generative artificial intelligence in reshaping meaning in contemporary societies.
Collaboration between the Department of Sociology and Professor Christian Morgner was established in May this year, when he delivered a lecture entitled Generative AI as Question Laboratory: From Answers to Questions to undergraduate sociology students at the Faculty of Croatian Studies. His visit was linked to the establishment of collaboration with the University of Portsmouth’s Centre for Creative and Immersive Extended Reality.
This collaboration continued with Professor Morgner’s inclusion as an external associate on the course Contemporary Sociological Theory in the teaching plan for the graduate programme in Sociology for the 2026/2027 academic year.
The Department of Sociology congratulates Christian Morgner on the publication of his book and looks forward to continued collaboration in teaching and research!
Further information about the book is available on the publisher’s website.