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The Meanings of Social Life
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 …
Interpreting Clifford Geertz
Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an …
Kulturell sociologi : program, teori och praktik
Jeffrey C. Alexander förespråkar en kulturell sociologi. Utgångspunkten är att samhälleliga institutioner och sociala handlingar alltid är inbäddade i meningssammanhang. Mening är …
The Dark Side of Modernity
In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey …
Narrating Trauma
Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural and social construction of …
The Nordic Civil Sphere
The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and …
Staging Solidarity
The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma, and by doing …
Populism in the Civil Sphere
Even as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a deviation from democracy, the source, …
What Makes a Social Crisis?
In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis and applies it to a wide range of cases, from the church paedophilia crisis to the #MeToo …
A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology
The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to …
Obama Power
What is the source of Obama’s power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn the situation around, deftly …
The Civil Sphere
What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way? Jeffrey C. Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox …