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  • A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
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    A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
    JEFFREY ALEXANDER / JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER / KENNETH THOMPSON / LAURA DESFOR EDLES / MOSHOULA CAPOUS-DESYL
    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. The 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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  • THEORETICAL LOGIC IN SOCIOLOGY
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    THEORETICAL LOGIC IN SOCIOLOGY
    JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER
    This four volume work, originally published in the 1980s and out of print for some years, represents a major attempt to redirect the course of contemporary sociological thought. Jeffrey Alexander analyses the most general and fundamental elements of sociological thinking about action and order and their ramifications for empirical study. He insists that sociological thought nee...

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  • CULTURE, SOCIETY, AND DEMOCRACY
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    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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  • MEANING AND METHOD
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    MEANING AND METHOD
    ISAAC REED / JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER
    Culture is increasingly important to American social science, but in what way? This book addresses the core issues of the sociology of culture-questions about the social role of meaning, along with those about the methods sociologists use to study culture and society-in a manner that makes clear their relevance to sociology as a whole. Part I consists of essays by leading cultu...

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  • STAGING SOLIDARITY
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    STAGING SOLIDARITY
    TANYA GOODMAN / RONALD EYERMAN / JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER
    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, and by doing so created a new collective narrative of diversity and inclusion. The TRC relied primarily on testimonies from victims and perpetrators of apartheid violence who came forward to tell their stories in ...

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  • NARRATING TRAUMA
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    NARRATING TRAUMA
    RONALD EYERMAN / JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER / ELIZABETH BUTLER BREESE
    Through case studies that examine historical and contemporary crises across the world, the contributing writers to this volume explore the cultural and social construction of trauma. How do some events get coded as traumatic and others which seem equally painful and dramatic not? Why do culpable groups often escape being categorised as perpetrators? These are just some of the i...

    $1,559.00

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  • RETHINKING PROGRESS
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    RETHINKING PROGRESS
    JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER / PIOTR SZTOMPKA
    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 feelings of alienation. The contributors, from all over the world, present their diversi...

    $1,179.00

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