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Kulturell sociologi : program, teori och praktik
Häftad, 2011
221 kr
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Jeffrey C. Alexander förespråkar en kulturell sociologi. Utgångspunkten är att samhälleliga institutioner och sociala handlingar alltid är inbäddade i meningssammanhang. Mening är alltid där. Den finns där som en symbolisk struktur i vår yttre miljö som vi inte alltid är medvetna om. Att synliggöra …
Nordic Civil Sphere
Av Jeffrey C. Alexander, Anna Lund m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
273 kr
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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, family, and state. Unlike the …
Rethinking Progress
Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century
Av Jeffrey C. Alexander, Piotr Sztompka m. fl.
Inbunden, 1990
2510 kr
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Rethinking Progress provides a challenging reevaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization; the notion of progress. Progress often seems to have become self-defeating, producing ecological deserts, overpopulated cities, exhausted resources, decaying cultures, and widespread …
Meanings of Social Life
A Cultural Sociology
E-bok, 2003
459 kr
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In The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, he shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures …
Civil Sphere
E-bok, 2006
495 kr
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What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way? Jeffrey C. Alexander''s masterful work, The Civil Sphere , addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or …
Remembering the Holocaust
A Debate
E-bok, 2009
529 kr
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Remembering the Holocaust explains why the Holocaust has come to be considered the central event of the 20th century, and what this means. Presenting Jeffrey Alexander''s controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a classic in the Holocaust literature, and …
Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
Av Philip Smith, Ronald Jacobs m. fl.
E-bok, 2012
789 kr
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Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has emerged as a vibrant field. Edited by three leading cultural sociologists, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology presents the full theoretical and …
The Civil Sphere
Inbunden, 2006
2765 kr
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How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world?Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest--are at the heart …
The Meanings of Social Life
A Cultural Sociology
Häftad, 2005
634 kr
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In The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, he shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures …
Remembering the Holocaust
A Debate
Inbunden, 2009
746 kr
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Remembering the Holocaust explains why the Holocaust has come to be considered the central event of the 20th century, and what this means. Presenting Jeffrey Alexander's controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a classic in the Holocaust literature, and …
The Civil Sphere
Häftad, 2008
696 kr
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What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way? Jeffrey C. Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others - the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or …
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
Av ALEXANDER, Jeffrey C. Alexander m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
3819 kr
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In recent decades, the focus of the study of culture in sociology has been divided between the sociology of culture and cultural sociology. In the former approach, culture is seen as a reflection of the deeper and more "real" social structures. A cultural sociology, however, begins from the premise …
Meanings of Social Life
A Cultural Sociology
E-bok, 2003
459 kr
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In The Meanings of Social Life , Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, he shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures …
The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
Av Jeffrey C. Alexander, Ronald Jacobs m. fl.
Häftad, 2013
1133 kr
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Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has emerged as a vibrant field. Edited by three leading cultural sociologists, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology presents the full theoretical and …
Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology
Av Philip Smith, Ronald Jacobs m. fl.
E-bok, 2010
789 kr
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Since sociologists returned to the study of culture in the past several decades, a pursuit all but anathema for a generation, cultural sociology has emerged as a vibrant field. Edited by three leading cultural sociologists, The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology presents the full theoretical and …
Civil Sphere
E-bok, 2008
440 kr
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What binds societies together and how can these social orders be structured in a fair way? Jeffrey C. Alexander''s masterful work, The Civil Sphere , addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or …
Remembering the Holocaust
A Debate
E-bok, 2009
529 kr
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Remembering the Holocaust explains why the Holocaust has come to be considered the central event of the 20th century, and what this means. Presenting Jeffrey Alexander''s controversial essay that, in the words of Geoffrey Hartman, has already become a classic in the Holocaust literature, and …
The Performance of Politics
Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power
Inbunden, 2011
816 kr
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Jeffrey Alexander, a preeminent figure in social theory, offers here a new way of looking at democratic struggles for political power, discussing what happened, and why, during Barack Obama's remarkable run for president. Illustrated with vivid examples drawn from a range of media coverage, …
Performance of Politics
Obama''s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power
E-bok, 2010
404 kr
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Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography. Whatever portion of the vote not explained by the class, gender, race, and religious differences of voters is attributed to the candidates'' positions on the issues of the day. But are these the only--or even the …
Performance of Politics
Obama''s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power
E-bok, 2010
404 kr
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Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography. Whatever portion of the vote not explained by the class, gender, race, and religious differences of voters is attributed to the candidates'' positions on the issues of the day. But are these the only--or even the …
The Performance of Politics
Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power
Häftad, 2012
552 kr
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Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography, and presidential elections are no exception. But do differences in class, gender, race, and religion really determine the vote? The Performance of Politics develops a new way of looking at democratic struggles for …
Interpreting Clifford Geertz
Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences
Av Jeffrey C. Alexander, Philip Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
552 kr
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Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure.
Interpreting Clifford Geertz
Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences
Av Jeffrey C. Alexander, Philip Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
552 kr
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Theorist Clifford Geertz's influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure.
Interpreting Clifford Geertz
Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences
Av Philip Smith, Jeffrey C. Alexander m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
779 kr
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Theorist Clifford Geertz''s influence extends far beyond Anthropology. This volume reflects the breadth of his influence, looking at Geertz as a theorist rather than as an anthropologist. To date there has been no impartial, comprehensive, and authoritative work published on this critical figure.
Action and Its Environments
Toward a New Synthesis
Inbunden, 1988
1843 kr
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Jeffrey Alexander, known for his work in sociological theory, breaks new ground in Action and Its Environments. His emphasis here is directly empirical and normative. He builds models, develops classifications, makes definitions, and offers explanations. He also develops an historical and …
Differentiation Theory
Problems and Prospects
Av Jeffrey C. Alexander, Paul Colomy
Inbunden, 1990
1690 kr
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Methods of Discovery
Heuristics for the Social Sciences
Av Andrew Abbott, Jeffrey C. Alexander m. fl.
Häftad, 2004
354 kr
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Abbott helps social science students discover what questions to ask. This exciting book is not about habits and the mechanics of doing social science research, but about habits of thinking that enable students to use those mechanics in new ways, by coming up with new ideas and combining them more …
New Social Theory Reader
Av Steven Seidman, Jeffrey C. Alexander
Inbunden, 2008
3063 kr
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This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly trans-disciplinary manner. In this revised second edition readers are provided with a much greater range of …
New Social Theory Reader
Av Steven Seidman, Jeffrey C. Alexander
Häftad, 2008
822 kr
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This is the first anthology to thematize the dramatic upward and downward shifts that have created the new social theory, and to present this new and exciting body of work in a thoroughly trans-disciplinary manner. In this revised second edition readers are provided with a much greater range of …
