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In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and "cultural pragmatics" are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life. Central to Alexander's approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. He uses this model to shed new light on a wide range of social actors, movements,...

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The story of the 1914 "Miracle” Boston Braves is one of the most memorable in baseball history, but less well known is what the club did after that spectacular season. This book is the first to look at the "Miracle” Braves in a larger context. The Braves of those years were a roistering, pugnacious crew that battled the opposition, the umpires and sometimes each other.

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 of Talcott Parsons, the only modern thinker who can be considered a...

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 Weber was less able to avoid ambiguity, the author examines the weakn...

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What is the source of Obama's power? How is it that, after suffering a humiliating defeat in the 2010 mid-term elections, Obama was able to turn the situation around, deftly outmaneuvering his opponent and achieving a decisive victory in the November 2012 presidential election? In this short and brilliant book, Jeffrey Alexander and Bernadette Jaworsky argue that neither money nor demography can explain this dramatic turnaround. What made it ...

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologisc...

Ein kurz gefaBter Grundr{fJ der mykologischen Diagnostik hat bisher in der deutschen Literatur gefehlt, obwohl sich von Jahr zu Jahr immer zahl­ reichere Autoren und Kliniken dem Studium der pathogenen Hautpilze zu­ gewandt haben. Das hier vorliegende Buch soil in erster Linie zur Hilfe im Laboratorium dienen, es solI die Handhabe bilden zur Erkennung der haut­ pathogenen Pilzarten im frischen Praparat, soweit dies moglich ist, und soIl fiir d...

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologisc...

Apie woont helemaal alleen in het oerwoud. Dat vindt hij prima. Maar opeens komt er een Kleintje, dat hem overal achterna loopt en hem in alles nadoet. Dat bevalt Apie niks. Hij jaagt het Kleintje weg...

Especially significant here are the analysis of attitudes which led to this revival of the Klan and the close examination of its internal machinations.

The administration of public schools encompasses myriad generic issues having to do with curriculum content, instructional methodology, human resource and financial management, and of course, the guidance and counseling of students. Woven into this tapestry is the obligation to individualize educational programs to accommodate the needs of a wide and diverse student population. The needs of children may be categorized by economic, social, ethn...

Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologisc...

In The Meanings of Social Life, Jeffrey Alexander presents a new approach to how culture works in contemporary societies. Exposing our everyday myths and narratives in a series of empirical studies that range from Watergate to the Holocaust, he shows how these unseen yet potent cultural structures translate into concrete actions and institutions. Only when these deep patterns of meaning are revealed, Alexander argues, can we understand the stu...

Excerpt from The Millsaps Collegian, Vol. 7: The Ideal Versus the Practical in Politics Plato was not alone when he conceived of an ideal republic, he was a mere type of the political man of all ages. But Plato's republic was a mere dream. More than twenty centuries afterwards men as wise as he, and more practical, were called, not only to conceive of an ideal republic, but to frame and organize it. For the first time in history a people, hav...

Excerpt from The Autobiography of Shakespeare: A Fragment " . . . we hope, to your divers capacities, you will find enough both to draw, and hold you: for his wit could no more lie hid, than it could be lost. Read him, therefore, and again, and again: and then if you do not like him, surely you are in some manifest danger, not to understand him. And so we leave you to other of his friends whom, if you need, can be your guides: if you need the...

Excerpt from The Book of Ballynoggin Father O'Kay of Baleila was on his way to Ballynoggin to consult Lawyer Kennada. A strange thing had just happened, and Father O'Kay's manner was more than usually abstracted though there was an expression of excitement in his eyes and a glow on each cheekbone. His old one-eyed cob was quite aware of his master's state of mind and so took matters leisurely. He began with a satisfying brush of his forehea...

Public diplomacy has become one of the most discussed phrases in political science. This book examines the use of public diplomacy by China and Taiwan in Central America, where Taiwan continues to hold the majority of diplomatic relationships. Using Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Guatemala as case studies, and drawing on other examples from across the Caribbean basin, Alexander examines public diplomacy beginning with its point of reception in t...

Bringing together 12 ethnographic studies of post-apartheid South Africa, this reference focuses on the emergence of new South African identities with both strong, local characteristics and powerful, global influences. It shows how, in different ways-- through adoption, adaptation, avoidance, and resistance-- South Africans are responding to the forces and connections of globalization.