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Aug 22, 2024 · Thesis 11 is pleased to republish this interview of Jeffrey Alexander by Frédéric Vandenberghe which first appeared in Sociologia & Antropologia in 2019 during the moment of Alexander's retirement from Yale University. It is preceded by two new prefaces by Peter Beilharz and Vandenberghe.
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.
Jeffrey C. Alexander is Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Sociology Department at Yale University, the author of The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (2003), and the editor of Real Civil Societies (1998). Ron Eyerman is the author of Cultural Trauma: Slavery and the Formation of African American Identity (2001).
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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...
In this book Jeffrey C. Alexander develops an original social theory of trauma and uses it to carry out a series of empirical investigations into social suffering around the globe. Alexander argues that traumas are not merely psychological but collective experiences, and that trauma work plays a key role in defining the origins and outcomes of ...
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 ...
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Apr 1, 2019 · the graduate program in Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. One of Alexander’ s most significant impacts in global cultural sociology. is social and performative, and ...
