Civil Sphere

Zusatztext The Civil Sphere offers grand theorizing in ways that remind us of both what we are and what we can be. Jeffrey Alexander offers sociology at least a place from which it may begin again. Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He is also the author of The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (Oxford, 2003). Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Jeffrey Alexander, Jeffrey C Alexander, Jeffrey C. Alexander, Jeffrey C. (Lillian Chavenson Saden Pro Alexander
• Edition: Oxford University Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Relié
• Sortie: 17.08.2006
• EAN: 9780195162509
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516250-9
• Pages: 816
• Catégories: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Sociologie > Théories sociologiques; Sociology, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Society & culture: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Social and cultural anthropology, Society and culture: general