The meanings of social life a cultural sociology /

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Main Author: Alexander, Jeffrey C.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The meanings of (social) life: on the origins of a cultural sociology
  • 1. The strong program in cultural sociology (with Philip Smith)
  • 2. On the social construction of "moral universals"
  • 3. The "holocaust" from war crime to trauma drama: Cultural trauma and collective idenitity
  • 4. A cultural sociology of evil
  • 5. The discourse of American civil society (with Smith)
  • 6. Watergate as democratic ritual
  • 7. The sacred and profane information machine
  • 8. Modern, anti, post, and neo: how intellectuals explain "our time".