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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….
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Although this book stakes out new ground, in Action and Its Environments Alexander exhibits the same combination of insight and forceful argument that have won his earlier work high acclaim. Preface. Acknowledgments. IntroductionPart I: The Problem Stated. One: Social-Structural Analysis: Presuppositions, Ideologies, Empirical DebatesPart II ...
May 31, 2012 · Trauma: A Social Theory. May 31, 2012. "Human beings are storytelling animals," sociologist Jeffrey Alexander tells us halfway through this treatise on the nature of trauma in Western societies. The type of stories we tell ourselves and each other are profoundly indicative of the society in which we live, but Alexander never explains why we ...
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Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere(with Farhard Khosrokhavar and Trevor Stack), Cambridge University Press, Forthcoming 2019.What Makes a Social Crisis? The Societalization of Social Problems,Polity Press, Forthcoming 2019.“Frontlash/Backlash: The Crisis of Solidarity and the Threat to Civil Institutions,” Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews: Vol. 48 (1). January 2019.
“The Societalization of Social Problems: Church Pedophilia, Phone Hacking, and the Financial Crisis,” American Sociological Review: Online 2018.
Raging Against the Enlightenment: The Ideology of Steven Bannon. ASA Sociology of Culture Newsletter, Vol. 29(1 & 2), Spring/Summer 2017. (Portuguese translation, 2018)Seizing the Stage: Mao, MLK, and Black Lives Matter. The Drama Review, 61/1, Spring 2017. (Portuguese translation, 2017; Chinese translation, 2017)Interview: “Was the election a ‘shattering’ experience for you? There is hope, says a Yale sociologist,” Yale News, January 27, 2017Undergraduate 1. HUMS 335 01 / SOCY 202 01, Cultural Sociology 2. SOCY 330, Civil Society and Democracy. 3. SOCY 352, Material Culture. Graduate 1. SOCY 525, Cultural Sociology: Theory and Research Programs. 2. SOCY 534 01, Cultural Sociology 3. SOCY 562 01, Topics in Cultural Sociology 4. SOCY 565 01, Advanced Seminar in Cultural Sociology 5. SOCY...
Oxford University Press, Sep 18, 2003 - Social Science - 312 pages. In The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, he shows how these unseen yet ...
Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University and the Founder and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS). Jeffrey works in the areas of theory, culture, and politics. An exponent of the “strong program” in cultural sociology, he has investigated the cultural codes and ...
