In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and “cultural pragmatics” are vital for understanding the structural...
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...
The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational...
In this book, one of the world’s leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world...
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...
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...
Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender...