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Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, Connecticut, is the author of twenty books and editor of twenty-five more. He is one of the creators of contemporary cultural sociology, founder and director of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology, and co-editor of The American Journal of Cultural Sociology.
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Téléchargez le livre : Frontlash / Backlash
Frontlash / Backlash

Jeffrey C. Alexander

Polity

2025-10-29

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In the aftermath of the Cold War, many societies seemed firmly set on a pathway to cultural reintegration, progressive reform, and democratic government. This didn't happen. Instead, they have become increasingly polarized, and far-right...

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Télécharger le livre : The Indian Civil Sphere
The Indian Civil Sphere
Jeffrey C. Alexander , Suryakant Waghmore
Indian democracy is in trouble. A still widely popular, democratically elected leader stands athwart it, dangerously authoritarian and disrespectful of civil liberties, the independence of the courts and the press, and disputatious vis-à-vis organized counter-powers....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2025-07-04
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Télécharger le livre : Civil Repair
Civil Repair
Jeffrey C. Alexander
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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2024-10-25
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Télécharger le livre : Populism in the Civil Sphere
Populism in the Civil Sphere
Jeffrey C. Alexander , Peter Kivisto , Giuseppe Sciortino
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....

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-12-03
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Télécharger le livre : The Courage for Civil Repair
The Courage for Civil Repair
Jeffrey C. Alexander , Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky , Carlo Tognato
This original, scholarly collection of essays investigates the intersections of large-scale international migration and solidarity-building. Unpacking how civil courage occurs, under what forms, and what sustains it, Carlo Tognato, Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, and Jeffrey...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2020-07-04
Collection : Cultural Sociology PDF, ePub

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Télécharger le livre : The Nordic Civil Sphere
The Nordic Civil Sphere
Jeffrey C. Alexander , Anna Lund , Andrea Voyer
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 uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2020-01-07
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Télécharger le livre : What Makes a Social Crisis?
What Makes a Social Crisis?
Jeffrey C. Alexander
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 the...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2019-11-01
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Télécharger le livre : Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics
Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics
Jeffrey C. Alexander , Jason L. Mast
The 2016 U.S. presidential election revealed a nation deeply divided and in flux. This volume provides urgently needed insights into American politics and culture during this period of uncertainty.The contributions answer the election’s key mysteries, such as how...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2018-11-12
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Télécharger le livre : The Drama of Social Life
The Drama of Social Life
Jeffrey C. Alexander
In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to Alexander’s approach is a new model of social...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2017-06-05
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Télécharger le livre : Obama Power
Obama Power
Jeffrey C. Alexander , Bernadette N. Jaworsky
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 outmaneuvering his opponent and achieving a decisive victory in the November 2012 presidential...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2014-08-12
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Télécharger le livre : Performance and Power
Performance and Power
Jeffrey C. Alexander
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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-08-26
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Télécharger le livre : Trauma
Trauma
Jeffrey C. Alexander
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,...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-26
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Télécharger le livre : The Dark Side of Modernity
The Dark Side of Modernity
Jeffrey C. Alexander
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...

Editeur : Polity
Parution : 2013-04-25
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Télécharger le livre : The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
Jeffrey C. Alexander , Ronald Jacobs , Philip Smith
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...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2012-01-26
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Télécharger le livre : Interpreting Clifford Geertz
Interpreting Clifford Geertz
Jeffrey C. Alexander , Philip Smith
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...

Editeur : Palgrave Macmillan
Parution : 2011-05-09
Collection : Cultural Sociology PDF

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Télécharger le livre : The Performance of Politics
The Performance of Politics
Jeffrey C. Alexander
Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography. Whatever portion of the vote not explained by the class, gender, race, and religious differences of voters is attributed to the candidates' positions on the issues of the day. But are...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2010-11-01
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Télécharger le livre : The Civil Sphere
The Civil Sphere
Jeffrey C. Alexander
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...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2008-09-08
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Télécharger le livre : The Meanings of Social Life
The Meanings of Social Life
Jeffrey C. Alexander
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...

Editeur : Oxford University Press
Parution : 2003-09-18
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