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Trauma : a social theory
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ISBN: 9780745649115 9780745649122 0745649122 0745649114 Year: 2012 Publisher: Cambridge Polity


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Performance and power
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ISBN: 9780745648170 9780745648187 0745648177 0745648185 Year: 2011 Publisher: Malden, Mass. Polity

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The dark side of modernity
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ISBN: 9780745648217 9780745648224 0745648223 0745648215 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge Polity

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In this book, one of the world's leading social theorists presents a critical, alarmed, but also nuanced understanding of the post-traditional world we inhabit today. Jeffrey Alexander writes about modernity as historical time and social condition, but also as ideology and utopia. The idea of modernity embodies the Enlightenment's noble hopes for progress and rationality, but its reality brings great suffering and exposes the destructive impulses that continue to motivate humankind.Alexander examines how twentieth-century theorists struggled to comprehend the Janus-faced charact

Twenty lectures : sociological theory since World War II.
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ISBN: 0231062109 0231062117 Year: 1987 Publisher: New York Columbia university press


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Sociological theory since 1945
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ISBN: 0091728509 Year: 1987 Publisher: London Hutchinson

Fin de siècle social theory : relativism, reduction, and the problem of reason.
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ISBN: 1859840914 1859849962 9781859840917 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Verso

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The civil sphere
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ISBN: 9780195162509 9780195369304 0195369300 Year: 2006 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

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Societies are not governed only by power and self-interest. What then does make societies function? How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? This work addresses this central paradox of modern life.How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, The Civil Sphere, addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others-the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest-are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical studies of who we actually are. A grand and sweeping statement, The Civil Sphere is a major contribution to our thinking about the real but ideal world in which we all reside

Durkheimian sociology : cultural studies
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ISBN: 0521396476 9780521396479 Year: 1990 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge university press,

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Performative revolution in Egypt : an essay in cultural power
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ISBN: 1780930453 1780930860 1472544846 1780930887 Year: 2011 Publisher: London : Bloombury Academic,

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"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 and translations of the social media pages that brought Egyptians flocking onto Tahrir Square, Alexander uncovers the narrative of a revolution that was scripted by its organizers, as both a moral statement and a media and digital statement. He sees it as a theatrical performance, designed to reveal to the key protagonists what a civil, egalitarian society might look like, by showing it in microcosm on the Square. Ultimately, he argues, it was the sight of the protestor's behaviour that swayed the army, and brought about regime change. From the author of the widely acclaimed 2010 book: The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power, this powerful intervention into the debate on the Arab Spring is a must-read for those curious about how social media are fundamentally changing global politics."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

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