As for the former, the orientation is basically Weberian (Weber 2006: 13, 43–4 and 172 González García 1992: 37, 1998: 208), whose perspective considers the social world and the relations it generates as full of meaning. In order to achieve these objectives, we essentially start from Comprehensive or Interpretative Sociology and the Sociology of skyscrapers. ![]() This article has two basic objectives: (1) to evaluate how American economic culture is objectified in the symbolism of skyscrapers in Chicago and New York and, (2), to assess the parallelism between the evolution of the form of skyscrapers in these cities and the major economic transformations that have occurred over the last decades in American society. Ultimately, it is about confirming the sociological utility of skyscrapers, understood as symbolic, economic, social and cultural objects. In short, we will try to highlight the following symbolic questions: if the skyscrapers of Chicago and New York represent the defense of an American business culture marked by strong competitiveness and individualism if they express the aesthetic transition from a capitalist rationalist architecture to another aesthetic where fiction, fantasy and spectacularity prevail if this process is in tune with the transformation from an industrial capitalism to another of consumption and if it manifests itself through the decline of rationalist structural architectural elements towards others marked by glass, lightness, fluidity, liquidity and commodification if the individualism that characterizes North American capitalism has also mutated in recent decades, that is, if from a primitive exaltation of autonomy as a core value of society, it drifts towards the cult of an individualized, privatized self disconnected from public space. ![]() Starting from Comprehensive or Interpretive Sociology and the Sociology of skyscrapers, this article proposes as basic objectives to verify how the North American economic culture is showed in the symbolism of the skyscrapers of Chicago and New York and to verify the parallelism between the formal evolution of these buildings and the main economic transformations that have occurred in North American society in recent decades.
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