Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521857953 ISBN 13 : 9780521857956

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2006

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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. Performance has always been used by sociologists to understand the social world but this volume offers the first systematic analytical framework based on the performance metaphor to explain large-scale social and cultural processes. From September 11, to the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, to the role of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Social Performance draws on recent work in performative theory in the humanities and in cultural studies to offer a novel approach to the sociology of culture. Inspired by the theories of Austin, Derrida, Durkheim, Goffman, and Turner, this is a path-breaking volume that makes a major contribution to the field. It will appeal to scholars and students alike.

Biographie de l'auteur

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).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521857953
• ISBN 13: 9780521857956
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Éditeur: Alexander Jeffrey C., Giesen Bernhard, Mast Jason L.