Jeffrey C. Alexander

Author of Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates

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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) 59 copies

The Civil Sphere (2006) 49 copies

The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology (2003) 32 copies

The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (2005) — Editor — 31 copies

Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (2004) 31 copies

The New Social Theory Reader: Contemporary Debates (2001) — Editor — 22 copies

Trauma: A Social Theory (2012) 22 copies

Twenty Lectures (1987) 20 copies

Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual (2006) — Editor — 19 copies

Theoretical Logic in Sociology: Vol. 1. Positivism, Presuppositions, and Current Controversies (1982) 18 copies

Fin De Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason (1995) 16 copies

The Dark Side of Modernity (2013) 16 copies

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

The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power (2010) 13 copies

Performance and Power (2011) 13 copies

Interpreting Clifford Geertz: Cultural Investigation in the Social Sciences (Cultural Sociology) (2011) 13 copies

The Micro-Macro Link (1987) 13 copies

Diversity and Its Discontents (1999) — Editor — 13 copies

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology (Oxford Handbooks) (2012) 12 copies

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

A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) (2008) 11 copies

Theoretical Logic in Sociology: Vol. 2. The Antinomies of Classical Thought: Marx and Durkheim (Theoretical Logic in… (1983) 11 copies

Obama Power (2014) 9 copies

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

Action and Its Environments: Toward a New Synthesis (1988) 8 copies

Theoretical Logic in Sociology: Vol. 3. The Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis: Max Weber. (Theoretical Logic (1983) 8 copies

Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate (2009) 8 copies

Narrating Trauma: On the Impact of Collective Suffering (The Yale Cultural Sociology Series) (2011) 7 copies

Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies (1988) 7 copies

The Classical Attempt at Theoretical Synthesis: Max Weber (Theoretical Logic in Sociology, Vol. 3) (v. 3) (1983) 6 copies

Neofunctionalism (Key Issues in Sociological Theory) (1985) 6 copies

Performative revolution in Egypt : an essay in cultural power (2011) 5 copies

Real civil societies : dilemmas of institutionalization (1998) 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

Las teorías sociologicas desde la 2 Guerra mundial (Cla-De-Ma) (Spanish Edition) (1997) 4 copies

The crisis of journalism reconsidered : democratic culture, professional codes, digital future (2016) 3 copies

The drama of social life (2017) 3 copies

Sociologia (2010) 3 copies

Iconic Power: Materiality and Meaning in Social Life (Cultural Sociology) (2011) 3 copies

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

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

La réduction, critique de Bourdieu (2000) 2 copies

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

La costruzione del male. Dall'olocausto all'11 settembre (2006) 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

What makes a social crisis? : the societalization of social problems (2019) 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

Object Lessons (2007) 1 copy

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

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Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, and Self (2001) — Contributor — 20 copies

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

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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.

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