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9 paź 2003 · Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, it shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions.
Read online or download for free from Z-Library the Book: The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology, Author: Jeffrey C. Alexander, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN: 9780195160840, Year: 2003, Language: English, Format: PDF, Filesize: 1.54 MB
In fact, the shifting-social life of individuals has to be contextualised in terms of institutions and history of the society. Such a contextualisation helps continuously review social practices in the light of new information that concerns these very practices.
CONTENTS. Introduction: The Meanings of (Social) Life: On the Origins of a Cultural Sociology 3. The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics (with Philip Smith) 11. On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The “Holocaust” from War Crime to Trauma Drama 27.
During recent decades, Jeffrey C. Alexander has been occupied with studying social life from a cultural perspective, developing a cultural sociology concerned with the shaping or constitutive impact of cultural formations and discursive practices on other aspects of social life.
Iconic power : materiality and meaning in social life / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Dominik Bartmański, and Bernhard Giesen. p. cm. — (Cultural sociology)
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.
