Social Performance by Jeffrey C Alexander
Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. This is a path-breaking volume that makes a major contribution to the field.-
The Making of English National Identity
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Intellectual Discourse and the Politics of Modernization
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Colonial Fantasies
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The Religious and Romantic Origins of Psychoanalysis
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Music and Social Movements
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Trust
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Territorial Ambitions and the Gardens of Versailles
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The Simulation of Surveillance
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Queer Fictions of the Past
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Avoiding Politics
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Evil and Human Agency
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The Playing Self
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Intellectuals and the Nation
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Rethinking Comparative Cultural Sociology
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Matters of Culture
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Genealogies of Citizenship
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Struggles for Subjectivity
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Difference Troubles
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Identity without Selfhood
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Nationalism and Literature
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Challenging Codes
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Nation and Commemoration
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Fundamentalism, Sectarianism, and Revolution
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Cultural Trauma
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Illiberal Politics in Neoliberal Times
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Thinking through Television
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The Unfinished Revolution
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The Performative Presidency
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Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
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Performing Civility
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The Work of Global Justice
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Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society
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A Phenomenology of Working-Class Experience
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Distant Suffering
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French Revolutionary Syndicalism and the Public Sphere
'Truly a groundbreaking work, and is absolutely essential reading for anyone interested in the understanding of modern social and political action' Marvin Carlson, TDR: The Drama Review
Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology and also Chair of the Sociology Department at Yale University. He is the author of The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (2003), Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (with Eyerman, Giesen, Smelser, and Sztompka (2004), and the editor (with Philip Smith) of The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (2005). Bernhard Giesen holds the chair for macro-sociology in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Konstanz (Germany) and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Yale University. Among the more than twenty books he has written and edited are The Intellectuals and the Nation: Collective Identity in a German Axial Age (Cambridge 1998) and Triumph and Trauma (2004). Jason L. Mast is a Doctoral Candidate in Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a Visiting Fellow at Yale University's Department of Sociology and its Center for Cultural Sociology.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521674621 |
| ISBN 10 | 052167462X |
| Title | Social Performance |
| Author | Jeffrey C Alexander |
| Series | Cambridge Cultural Social Studies |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 2006-05-04 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
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