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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...

This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer th...

This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer th...

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as ...

Rethinking Progress provides a challenging reevaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization; the notion of progress. Progress often...

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 paedoph...

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 paedoph...

Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-ques...

Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural...

Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural...

Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-ques...

The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the ...

In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"--and on this bas...

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 th...

In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional worl...

In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional worl...

Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gen...

Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gen...

Jeffrey Alexander, known for his work in sociological theory, breaks new ground in Action and Its Environments. His emphasis here is directly empir...

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 th...

The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation's apartheid past to be constructed as ...