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  • Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere

    It is not only a paradox but something of an intellectual scandal that, in an era so shaken by radical actions and ideologies, social science has had nothing theoretically new to say about radicalism since the middle of the last century. Breaching the Civil...
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  • Civil Repair by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Civil Repair

    This book challenges the pessimism that has so marked, and impoverished, social theorizing about modern life. Modernity has often been dark and debilitating, but it has also generated hope for a better life and extraordinary reforms and liberations, from the creation of hopeful democracies...
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  • Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

    In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious theoretical model of "cultural trauma"-and on this basis build a new understanding of how social groups interact with emotion to create new and binding understandings of social responsibility. Looking at the "meaning making...
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  • Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates

    This volume brings together the major statements by the leading contemporary scholars of cultural analysis on the relation between culture and society. Part One surveys the range of current analytical debate over culture, focusing on the relationship of culture to social structure and power....
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  • Dark Side of Modernity by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    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 Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea...
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  • Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies

    The best-known classic works of Emile Durkheim are characterized by a structural approach to the understanding of society, and it is this element of his writings that has been most taken up by modern social science. This volume rejects the dominant structural approach, drawing...
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  • Fin De Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction and the Problem of Reason by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Fin De Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction and the Problem of Reason

    Author: Jeffrey C. AlexanderISBN-10: 1859840914ISBN-13: 9781859840917Publisher: VersoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/17/1995Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.04w x 0.74d
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  • Interpreting Clifford Geertz: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Interpreting Clifford Geertz: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences

    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 anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure.Author: Jeffrey...
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  • Interpreting Clifford Geertz: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Interpreting Clifford Geertz: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences

    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 anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure.Author: Jeffrey...
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  • Performance and Power by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Performance and Power

    Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and...
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  • Populism in the Civil Sphere by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    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, it seems, of the precarious position in which so many societies find themselves today....
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  • Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology

    Teacher, scholar, and leader, Neil Smelser stands as an iconic figure in sociology in the second half of the twentieth century. The essays in this volume, written by prominent scholars from all walks of the social sciences, reveal the range and depth of Smelser's...
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  • The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim

    Long recognized as a foundational figure in the development of social scientific thought, Emile Durkheim's work has been the subject of intense debate over the years. This authoritative and comprehensive collection of essays re-examines the impact of Durkheim's thought, considering the historical significance of...
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  • The Civil Sphere by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    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 of modern life. Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power...
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  • The Civil Sphere in Canada by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    The Civil Sphere in Canada

    Author: Jeffrey C. AlexanderISBN-10: 0774871148ISBN-13: 9780774871143Publisher: University of British Columbia PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2025Pages: 344Format: Hardcover
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  • The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future

    This collection of original essays brings a dramatically different perspective to bear on the contemporary 'crisis of journalism'. Rather than seeing technological and economic change as the primary causes of current anxieties, The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered draws attention to the role played by...
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  • The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

    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 empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, he shows how these unseen yet...
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  • The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology

    Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has emerged as a vibrant field. Edited by three leading cultural sociologists, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology presents the full...
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  • Trauma: A Social Theory by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Trauma: A Social Theory

    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...
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  • Trauma: A Social Theory by Alexander, Jeffrey C.
    Jeffrey C. Alexander

    Trauma: A Social Theory

    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...
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  • Jeffrey C. Alexander

    What Makes a Social Crisis?: The Societalization of Social Problems

    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 movement. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by...
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