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Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy*
- Jeffrey Alexander
- Sociology
- 1 December 2004
From its very beginnings, the social study of culture has been polarized between structuralist theories that treat meaning as a text and investigate the patterning that provides relative autonomy and…
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity
- Jeffrey Alexander
- Sociology
- 2004
Preface 1. Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma: Jeffrey C. Alexander 2. Psychological Trauma and Cultural Trauma: Neil J. Smelser 3. Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American…
The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law, Vol 1. Harm to Others
- Jeffrey Alexander, J. Feinberg
- Law
- 20 August 1987
On the Social Construction of Moral Universals
- Jeffrey Alexander
- Sociology
- 1 February 2002
The following is simultaneously an essay in sociological theory, in cultural sociology, and in the empirical reconstruction of postwar Western history. Per theory, it introduces and specifies a model…
Trauma: A Social Theory
- Jeffrey Alexander
- Political Science
- 16 July 2012
Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter 1. Cultural Trauma: A Social Theory Chapter 2. Holocaust and Trauma: Moral Universalism in the West Chapter 3. Holocaust and Trauma: Moral…
Global Civil Society
- Jeffrey Alexander
- Political Science
- 1 May 2006
terms of dialogue, we should allow for other, nonEuropean experiences, aspirations and perspectives as well in assessing different global democracy initiatives. Finally, a concrete utopia is a model…
Social Performance: Cultural pragmatics: social performance between ritual and strategy
- Jeffrey Alexander
- Sociology
- 2006
The discourse of American civil society: A new proposal for cultural studies
- Jeffrey Alexander, Philip Smith
- Sociology
- 1 April 1993
In this essay we make a new proposal for the sociological approach to culture. We begin with a brief critical history of the social scientific treatment of culture and a criticism of some recent…
Fin De Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction And The Problem Of Reason
- Jeffrey Alexander
- Art
- 1995
In four interwoven studies, the book identifies the central dilemma that provokes contemporary social theory, and proposes a new way to resolve it. The dream of reason that marked the previous "fin…
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