Sách - Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology by Jean-Francois Côté (US edition, paperback)

Ships from and sold by EXPERAL Singapore Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Origin: United States (Imported) ISBN 13: 9781509555567 Condition: Brandnew Binding: paperback Pages: 192 Dimensons: 213 x 137 x 18 | 272 (gram) ---------------------------------------- This book presents the first comprehensive and critical account of Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology. Alexander has proposed a “strong program” in cultural sociology that analyses the cultural pragmatics of social performance. His hermeneutical approach connects meaningful political action with deeper symbolic structures of social life. Rooted in a rereading of classical sociology, Alexander’s cultural sociology focuses on the aesthetics of political expressions and their relation to the civil sphere. His highly original account of the civil sphere, as an institutionalized domain that is shaped by the discourse of liberty and solidarity and that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations, provides an illuminating perspective on how democracy functions, and fails to function, in contemporary societies. This book charts the development of Alexander’s thought in all its complexity. Through its critical readings, the book also opens up a dialogue with other contemporary approaches in sociology, situating Alexander’s work in relation to others and highlighting alternative views that challenge his ideas. The book offers both a critical introduction and a deepening of different aspects of the cultural sociology developed by Alexander. It is the first work of its kind. Table of Content Preface Introduction Chapter 1: The “strong program” of cultural sociology Alexander’s “post-positivist” approach to sociology From Parsons to neofunctionalism From Neofunctionalism to Cultural Sociology A new analysis of the relative autonomy of culture based on reflexivity Chapter 2: A rereading of Durkheim: social ritual and cultural significance The presence of the religious in cultural life A sociology of religion in social life: politics and technology Symbolic forms of meaning in contemporary society Chapter 3: A critique of Marx, Cultural Stus, and Bourdieu The rejection of Marxian critique Critique of Cultural Studies Critique of Bourdieusian determinism Critical theory and reflexivity: the power of representation Chapter 4: Culture, Politics and Civil Religion: Weber and beyond With Weber and beyond: a sociology of religion in modernity Weberian analysis reassessed by pragmatics and hermeneutics The civil sphere and political debates: reconstruction of civil religion Chapter 5: The Civil Sphere and the “Societal Community:” beyond Parsons From Parsons to Touraine and beyond: analysis of performative social movements Cultural pragmatics and the challenges of symbolic codification Social and cultural trauma theory: social claims of identity Chapter 6: The power of representation and the representation of power Empirical analysis of political life: the representation of power Power of representation: performance and dramatic action in the civil sphere The power of the symbolic and the iconic A generalized social theatricality: the dramatic aesthetics of social action Conclusion Biographical Note Jean-François Côté is Professor of Sociology at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Giá sản phẩm trên Tiki đã bao gồm thuế theo luật hiện hành. Bên cạnh đó, tuỳ vào loại sản phẩm, hình thức và địa chỉ giao hàng mà có thể phát sinh thêm chi phí khác như phí vận chuyển, phụ phí hàng cồng kềnh, thuế nhập khẩu (đối với đơn hàng giao từ nước ngoài có giá trị trên 1 triệu đồng).....