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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 : The Indian Civil Sphere
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The Indian Civil Sphere

Jeffrey C. Alexander , Suryakant Waghmore

Polity

2025-07-23

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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...

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Télécharger le livre : Civil Repair
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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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22,14 €
Télécharger le livre : Populism in the Civil Sphere
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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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22,68 €
Télécharger le livre : The Nordic Civil Sphere
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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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22,68 €
Télécharger le livre : What Makes a Social Crisis?
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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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19,10 €
Télécharger le livre : The Drama of Social Life
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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 : 2017-09-05

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19,10 €
Télécharger le livre : Obama Power
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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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14,60 €
Télécharger le livre : Obama Power
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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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14,60 €
Télécharger le livre : Performance and Power
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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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21,52 €
Télécharger le livre : Trauma
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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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21,52 €
Télécharger le livre : The Dark Side of Modernity
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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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20,26 €