Jeffrey Alexander and Cultural Sociology

By: Côté, Jean-François

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, and his hermeneutical approach connects meaningful political action with deeper symbolic structures of social life. His highly original account of the civil sphere, as an institutionalized domain that is shaped by the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509555560
• ISBN13: 9781509555567
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 9.0"