Social Performance (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521674621)

Taking a "cultural pragmatic" approach to meaning, the contributors suggest a new way of looking at the continuum that stretches between ritual and strategic action. They do so by developing, for the first time, a model of "social performance". This volume offers the first systematic and analytical framework that transforms the metaphor into a social theory and applies it to a series of facinating large-scale social and cultural processes--from September 11 and the Clinton/Lewinsky Affair, to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Willy Brandt's famous "kneefall" before the Warsaw momument.

Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander
ISBN-10: 052167462X
ISBN-13: 9780521674621
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/04/2006
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.37lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.06w x 0.88d