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Interview: Five minutes with Jeffrey C. Alexander: “Southern European countries are not just experiencing an economic crisis, but also an identity crisis.”. European Policy and Politics Blog, London School of Economics and Political Science, April 2013. The Promise and Contradictions of Axiality. Sociologica, 1.
Dec 23, 2022 · Jeffrey C Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, founder and co-director of Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology, and co-editor of The American Journal of Cultural Sociology. A social theorist whose early work challenged the anti-cultural reductionism of classical and modern sociology, Alexander has worked with generations of students and ...
Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. by. Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ron Eyerman, Bernard Giesen, Neil J. Smelser, Piotr Sztompka. 3.88 avg rating — 73 ratings — published 2004 — 5 editions. Want to Read saving….
The Societalization of Social Problems. Alexander, Jeffrey C., Medford, MA: Polity 9781509538256. Paperback: $22.95, €18.10. Jefrey C. Alexander is a key scholar in US sociology and among the most prolific and well-cited theorists in cultural sociology globally. During his long career at the University of California and Yale University ...
The book of Ezekiel may be effectively understood in terms of Jeffrey Alexander’s theory of cultural trauma, in which catastrophic events take on a wider cultural significance because they are perceived as having consequences for group identity. The book of Ezekiel develops a new master narrative of Israelite history and identity, in which the catastrophes of 597 and 586 BCE are the ...
In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and cultural pragmatics are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to Alexanders approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. He uses this model to shed new ...
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Aug 17, 2006 · Despite its worldly flaws and contradictions, however, solidarity and the project of civil society remain our best hope—the antidote to every divisive institution, every unfair distribution, and every abusive and dominating hierarchy. A grand and sweeping statement, the book is a major contribution to our thinking about the real but ideal ...
