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Alexander’s civil sphere theory is quickly becoming a global industry, because of his collaborative style that I described before and also because of the ana- lytic power that the theory brings ...
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.
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 ...
Oct 9, 2003 · This book 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, it shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions.
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 ...
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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Alexander.CV. Office Hours: Wednesday 4-6pm. Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor Emeritus of Sociology. He has worked in the areas of theory, culture, and politics. An exponent of the “strong program” in cultural sociology, he has investigated the cultural codes and narratives that inform diverse areas of social life.