The drama of social life /
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 his approach is a new model of social performance that combines elements from bo...
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, Massachusetts :
Polity Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: A new theory of modernity from ritual to performance
- Seizing the stage: Mao, MLK, and Black Lives Matter today
- Revolutionary performance in Egypt: the 2011 uprising
- Political performance in the US: Obama's 2012 re-election
- Dramatic intellectuals
- Social theory and the theatrical avant-Garde.