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  • A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology
    Jeffrey Alexander / Jeffrey C. Alexander / Kenneth Thompson
    The influential authors significantly update their popular introductory text that invites students to reflect on their lives in the context of the combustible leap from modern to postmodern life. They authors show how culture is central to understanding many world problems as they challenge readers to confront the problems and possibilities of an era in which the futures of the...
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    273,30 €

  • The Antinomies of Classical Thought
    Jeffrey Alexander / Jeffrey C. Alexander
    This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. ...
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    89,20 €

  • Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
    Jeffrey Alexander / Jeffrey C. Alexander
    The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As We...
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    88,07 €

  • Interpreting Clifford Geertz
    Jeffrey C. Alexander / Philip Smith
    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.   ...
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    48,12 €

  • Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought
    Jeffrey Alexander / Jeffrey C. Alexander
    In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing ...
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    89,36 €

  • Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
    Jeffrey Alexander / Jeffrey C. Alexander
    This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points...
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    88,09 €

  • Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought
    Jeffrey Alexander / Jeffrey C. Alexander
    In this volume the author maintains that sociology must learn to combine the insights of both Durkheim and Marx and that it can only do so on the presuppositional ground that Weber set forth. Alexander maintains that the idealist and materialist traditions must be transformed into analytic dimensions of multidimensional and synthetic theory. This volume focusses on the writing ...
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    340,95 €

  • Positivism, Presupposition and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
    Jeffrey Alexander / Jeffrey C. Alexander
    This volume begins by challenging the bases of the recent scientization of sociology. Then it challenges some of the ambitious claims of recent theoretical debate. The author not only reinterprets the most important classical and modern sociological theories but extracts from the debates the elements of a more satisfactory, inclusive approach to these general theoretical points...
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    268,00 €

  • Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis (Theoretical Logic in Sociology)
    Jeffrey Alexander / Jeffrey C. Alexander
    The limits of one-dimensional theory are strikingly revealed in the schools that the founders of the major sociological traditions established. In this volume Max Weber is presented as the theorist who laid out new starting points and the author considers his work as a response, in part, to the idealist tradition which (in Volume 2), he maintains that Durkheim represents. As We...
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    267,97 €

  • The Antinomies of Classical Thought
    Jeffrey Alexander / Jeffrey C. Alexander
    This volume challenges prevailing understanding of the two great founders of sociological thought. In a detailed and systematic way the author demonstrates how Marx and Durkheim gradually developed the fundamental frameworks for sociological materialism and idealism. ...
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    340,80 €

  • Narrating Trauma
    Elizabeth Butler Breese / Jeffrey C. Alexander / Ronald Eyerman
    Explores the cultural and social construction of trauma through case studies of historical and contemporary crises across the world. ...
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    117,49 €

  • Performance of Politics
    Jeffrey C Alexander
    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? ...
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    49,42 €

  • Performative Revolution in Egypt
    Jeffrey C. Alexander
    This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com.Jeffrey C. Alexander examines what was new about Egypt’s Spring revolution. Why was it so compelling to watch, and what made it so effective and does it have implications for democratic movements internationally. Using international news reports a...
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    38,43 €

  • Narrating Trauma
    Elizabeth Butler Breese / Jeffrey C. Alexander / Ronald Eyerman
    Explores the cultural and social construction of trauma through case studies of historical and contemporary crises across the world. ...
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    355,56 €

  • Staging Solidarity
    Jeffrey C. Alexander / Ronald Eyerman / Tanya Goodman
    The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation’s apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma. This book argues that the performative nature of the TRC effectively designated the past as profane and put a sacred community based on democratic idealism and universal solidarity. ...
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    95,15 €

  • Staging Solidarity
    Jeffrey C. Alexander / Ronald Eyerman / Tanya Goodman
    The South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) is a modern social drama that enabled the nation’s apartheid past to be constructed as a cultural trauma. This book argues that the performative nature of the TRC effectively designated the past as profane and put a sacred community based on democratic idealism and universal solidarity. ...
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    356,21 €

  • The Civil Sphere
    Jeffrey C. Alexander
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    59,42 €

  • Culture, Society, and Democracy
    Isaac Reed / Jeffrey C. Alexander
    This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer the Left. ...
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    104,56 €

  • Culture, Society, and Democracy
    Isaac Reed / Jeffrey C. Alexander
    This volume addresses the key question of the intersection of sociology and politics, and asks what a non-Marxist cultural perspective can offer the Left. Written by leading scholars, it develops new conceptions of social critique, new techniques of interpretive analysis, and new concepts for the sociology of democratic practice. It is a volume for the twenty-first-century, whe...
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    410,26 €

  • American Society
    Giuseppe Sciortino / Jeffrey C. Alexander / Talcott Parsons
    Renowned sociologist Talcott Parsons’s last major project, a masterly work that lives up to its billing as ’a general book on American society’. ...
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    408,66 €

  • The Meanings of Social Life
    Jeffrey C. Alexander
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    59,98 €

  • Rethinking Progress
    Jeffrey C. Alexander / Piotr Sztompka
    This informative book provides a challenging re-evaluation of one of the crucial ideas of Western civilization - the notion of progress. The contributors, from all over the world, present their diversified perspectives on its fate. ...
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    267,87 €