Social Performance - Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual

Zusammenfassung Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology! one that focuses on the intersection between performance! ritual and social action. This is a path-breaking volume that makes a major contribution to the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: symbolic action in theory and practice: the cultural pragmatics of symbolic action Jeffrey C. Alexander and Jason L. Mast; 1. Cultural pragmatics: social performance between ritual and strategy Jeffrey C. Alexander; 2. From the depths of despair: performance, counterperformance, and 'September 11' Jeffrey C. Alexander; 3. The cultural pragmatics of event-ness: the Clinton/Lewinsky affair Jason L. Mast; 4. Social dramas, shipwrecks and cockfights: conflict and complicity in social performance Isaac Reed; 5. Performing a 'new' nation: the role of the TRC in South Africa Tanya Goodman; 6. Performing opposition or, how social movements move Ron Eyerman; 7. Politics as theater: an alternative view of the rationalities of power David E. Apter; 8. Symbols in action: Willy Brandt's kneefall at the Warsaw monument Valentin Rauer; 9. The promise of performance and the problem of order Kay Junge; 10. Performance art Bernhard Giesen; 11. Performing the sacred: a Durkheimian perspective on the performance turn in the social sciences Bernhard Giesen.

Product details

• Authors: Jeffrey C. Alexander
• Assisted by: Jeffrey C. Alexander (Editor), Bernhard Giesen (Editor), Jason L. Mast (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.05.2006
• EAN: 9780521674621
• ISBN: 978-0-521-67462-1
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 228 mm x 22 mm
• Series: Cambridge Cultural Social Studies; Cambridge Cultural Social Stud
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories