Jeffrey C. Alexander

Author of Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates

About the Author

Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University and Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale.

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Works by Jeffrey C. Alexander

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Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates (1990) 62 copies

The Civil Sphere (2006) 51 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (2005) — Editor — 37 copies

The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (2003) 35 copies

Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (2004) 35 copies

Trauma: A Social Theory (2012) 26 copies

The New Social Theory Reader (2001) — Editor — 23 copies

Twenty Lectures (1987) 21 copies

Fin De Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason (1995) 20 copies

Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual (2006) — Editor — 20 copies

Theoretical Logic in Sociology: Vol. 1. Positivism, Presuppositions, and Current Controversies (1982) 19 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology (Oxford Handbooks) (2012) 18 copies

The Dark Side of Modernity (2013) 18 copies

A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) (2008) 15 copies

The Micro-Macro Link (1987) 15 copies, 1 review

The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power (2010) 15 copies

Theoretical Logic in Sociology: Vol. 4. The Modern Reconstruction of Classical Thought: Talcott Parsons (Theoretical Logic in Sociology, Vol 4) (1984) 14 copies

Diversity and Its Discontents (1999) — Editor — 14 copies

Interpreting Clifford Geertz: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences (Cultural Sociology) (2011) 14 copies

Performance and Power (2011) 13 copies

Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology (2004) 12 copies

Theoretical Logic in Sociology: Vol. 2. The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Cla (1983) 12 copies

Obama Power (2014) 10 copies

Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies (1988) 10 copies

Action and Its Environments (1988) 9 copies

Theoretical Logic in Sociology: Vol. 3. The Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis: Max Weber. (Theoretical Logic (1983) 9 copies

Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate (2009) 8 copies

Neofunctionalism and After: Collected Readings (Twentieth Century Social Theory) (1998) 8 copies

Narrating trauma : on the impact of collective suffering (2011) 7 copies

Real Civil Societies: Dilemmas of Institutionalization (SAGE Studies in International Sociology) (1998) 7 copies

The Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis: Max Weber (Theoretical Logic in Sociology, Vol. 3) (v. 3) (1983) 7 copies

Neofunctionalism (Key Issues in Sociological Theory) (1985) 6 copies, 1 review

Performative Revolution in Egypt: An Essay in Cultural Power (2011) 5 copies

Las teorías sociologicas desde la 2 Guerra mundial (Cla-De-Ma) (Spanish Edition) (1997) 5 copies

Positivism Presuppositions and Current Controversies (Theoretical Logic in Sociology, Vol 1) (1982) 5 copies

Rethinking Progress: Movements, Forces, and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century (1990) — Editor — 5 copies

What Makes a Social Crisis?: The Societalization of Social Problems (2019) 4 copies

The Drama of Social Life (2017) 3 copies

Sociologia (2010) 3 copies

Iconic power materiality and meaning in social life (2011) 3 copies

The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future (2016) 3 copies

Structure and Meaning: Relinking Classical Sociology (1989) 2 copies

Frontlash / Backlash 2 copies

La réduction, critique de Bourdieu (2000) 2 copies

La costruzione del male: dall'olocausto all'11 settembre (2006) 2 copies

The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in Sociology) (2014) 2 copies

Differentiation Theory and Social Change: Comparative and Historical Perspectives (1990) 2 copies

THE MODERN RECONSTRUCTION OF CLASSICAL THOUGHT TALCOTT PARSONS (1985) 1 copy

Trauma, cultura e historia: reflexiones interdisciplinarias para el nuevo milenio (2011) 1 copy

The Civil Sphere in Latin America (2018) 1 copy

Teoria sociologica e mutamento sociale: un'analisi multidimensionale della modernita (1990) 1 copy

Sociological Theory Since 1945 (1987) 1 copy

Populism in the Civil Sphere (2021) 1 copy

Kulturell sociologi : program, teori och praktik (2011) 1 copy

Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere (2020) 1 copy

The Indian Civil Sphere (2025) 1 copy

The Civil Sphere in Canada (2025) 1 copy

Frontlash/backlash (2025) 1 copy

Object Lessons (2007) 1 copy

Mainstream and critical social theory : classical, modern and contemporary (2001) 1 copy

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Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, and Self (2001) — Contributor — 26 copies

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Gender: male
Education: University of California, Berkeley
Occupations: sociologist
Nationality: USA
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johnclaydon 304 reviews

Neofunctionalism (Key Issues in Sociological Theory) by Jeffrey C. Alexander

Worth keeping as a record of what sociology was like as of 1985. But all the old debates on functionalism and neofunctionalism have been rendered obsolete by systems theory.

Jan 3, 2021

coronacopado 79 reviews

El vínculo micro-macro by Jeffrey C. Alexander

La dicotomía micro-macro debe considerarse como una distinción analítica y todos los intentos por vincularla con dicotomías concretas -tales como "individuo versus sociedad" o "acción versus orden"- están fundamentalmente mal situados. Sólo puede lograrse el vínculo entre los micro y lo macro desde un punto de vista analítico.

Aug 13, 2011Spanish