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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. ...

Even as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a deviation from democracy, the source, it seems, of the precarious position in which so many societies find themselves today. This volume aims to break the Gordian knot of "populism" by bringing a new social theory to bear and, in so doing so, suggesting that normative judgments about this misunderstood p...

Even as the specter of populism haunts contemporary societies, scholars have not been able to agree about what it is. Except for one thing: a deviation from democracy, the source, it seems, of the precarious position in which so many societies find themselves today. This volume aims to break the Gordian knot of "populism" by bringing a new social theory to bear and, in so doing so, suggesting that normative judgments about this misunderstood p...

From leading East Asian scholars, this collection of case studies, distributed across five East Asian nations, examines a wide range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts. It will be of use to graduate students and researchers in cultural sociology, political sociology, social theory, sociology of social movements, and globalization theory.

This book approaches today's 'front page' issues in Latin America in a unique and compelling way - by framing them inside civil sphere theory, a sociological model of the institutional and culture underpinnings and contradictions of democracy.

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The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state. Unlike the latter, which are more particularistic and hierarchical in character, the civil sphere defines itself in terms of solidarity - the feeling of being conn...

The civil sphere is a distinctively democratic field in modern societies, one that sustains universalizing cultural aspirations and organizational structures and that has tense and uncertain boundaries with other spheres of social life, like the economy, religion, family, and state. Unlike the latter, which are more particularistic and hierarchical in character, the civil sphere defines itself in terms of solidarity - the feeling of being conn...

Breaching the Civil Order produces a broad and coherent theory of radicalism and vivifies this new approach via an extraordinarily wide range of case studies written by leading social scientists, covering movements including Black Lives Matter, the IRA, Mexican Zapatistas, the Arab Spring and Islamic terrorism.

In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls societalization. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the discourse and institutions of the civil sphere. In the steady state, reactions to strains unfold within institutional boundaries, handled by organizational elites according to sphere-specific logics. Institutional boundaries can be breached only if th...

In this book, Jeffrey Alexander develops a new sociological theory of social crisis, which he calls societalization. He argues that crises are triggered not by objective social strains but by the discourse and institutions of the civil sphere. In the steady state, reactions to strains unfold within institutional boundaries, handled by organizational elites according to sphere-specific logics. Institutional boundaries can be breached only if th...

In questo libro Jeffrey C. Alexander sviluppa un'originale teoria sociale del trauma, utile a comprendere i processi culturali e simbolici che generano il dolore collettivo e i conflitti attorno alla sua interpretazione. Gli eventi, anche i più nefasti, non sono traumatici in sé: lo diventano attraverso sofisticati processi di interpretazione e rappresentazione collettiva che - a partire dalle vittime e, nei casi più riusciti, fino all'intera ...

From leading East Asian scholars, this collection of case studies, distributed across five East Asian nations, examines a wide range of contemporary social and cultural conflicts. It will be of use to graduate students and researchers in cultural sociology, political sociology, social theory, sociology of social movements, and globalization theory.

The 2016 U.S. presidential election revealed a nation deeply divided and in flux. This volume provides urgently needed insights into American politics and culture during this period of uncertainty. The contributions answer the election’s key mysteries, such as how contemporary Christian evangelicals identified in the unrepentant candidate Trump a hero to their cause, and how working class and economically struggling Americans saw in the rich a...

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