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The meanings of social life : a cultural sociology

Jeffrey C. Alexander (Author)
Print Book, English, 2006, ©2003
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006, ©2003
x, 296 str. : tabele ; 25 cm
9780195306408, 0195306406
443979642
Introduction: The meanings of (social) life: on the origins of a cultural sociology
1. The strong program in cultural sociology : elements of a structural Hermeneutics (with Philip Smith)
2. On the social construction of moral universals : the "Holocaust" from war crime to trauma drama
3. Cultural trauma and collective idenitity
4. A cultural sociology of evil
5. The discourse of American civil society (with Philip Smith)
6. Watergate as democratic ritual
7. The sacred and profane information machine
8. Modern, anti, post, and neo: how intellectuals explain "our time."