Social Performance Paperback: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual (Cambridge Cultural Social Studies) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052167462X ISBN 13: 9780521674621

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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'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

Biografía del autor

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.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 052167462X
• ISBN 13: 9780521674621
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 394
• Herausgeber: Alexander Jeffrey C.