Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual

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Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, Jason L. Mast
Cambridge University Press, 04/05/2006 - 392 páginas
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.

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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.

Informação bibliográfica

TítuloSocial Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
EditoresJeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, Jason L. Mast
Ediçãoilustrada
EditoraCambridge University Press, 2006
ISBN052167462X, 9780521674621
Número de páginas392 páginas
  
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