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Title: The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology by Jeffrey C. Alexander ISBN: 0-19-516084-3 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: August, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Praise for THE MEANINGS OF SOCIAL LIFE
Comment: From the Publisher: "This is a powerful claim on behalf of reuniting what has been separated since the beginning of the sociological venture: shapes of acts and their meanings, descriptions of human deeds and their comprehension, the this-worldly and the transcendental, religion and reason, values and facts, the poetry of culture and the prose of the mundane. This claim has been made with the hope of liberating the knowledge of things human from its service to a power that too often struggles to liberate itself form the ethical bonds of humanity. A commanding claim that makes for fascinating reading." --Zygmunt Bauman, author, "Modernity and the Holocaust"
Rating: 5
Summary: Meanings of Social Life
Comment: "Whether Alexander is considering high theory, the Holocaust, or computerization, the reader is treated to a mind at work that breathes originality and brilliance. A commanding...compelling performance!" --Steven Seidman, author of "Beyond the Closet: The Transformation of Gay and Lesbian Life"
"Jeffrey Alexander views culture as causal, not merely a reflection of social structure, but as embodied and embedded in institutions and personalities, rather than as coming down from on high. The final chapter about the ways in which we social scientists have thought about the world in which we live is alone worth the price of the book. A powerful argument."
--Robert Bellah, coauthor of "Habits of the Heart"
"Boldly, often brashly, challenging almost every cultural analyst in sight, Jeffrey Alexander here states and illustrates his strong program for analysis of culture as a coherent, autonomous social realm. The Holocaust, Watergate, computers, and contemporary American society at large all provide starting points for Alexander's distinctive reflections on social experience." --Viviana A. Zelizer, author of "The Social Meaning of Money"
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Title: Campfires of Freedom: The Camp Life of Black Soldiers During the Civil War by Keith P. Wilson ISBN: 0873387090 Publisher: Kent State Univ Pr Pub. Date: November, 2002 List Price(USD): $39.00 |
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Title: Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life by Theda Skocpol ISBN: 0806135328 Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Our Studies, Ourselves: Sociologists' Lives and Work by Barry Glassner, Rosanna Hertz, Herbert J. Gans ISBN: 0195146611 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Under God? : Religious Faith and Liberal Democracy by Michael J. Perry ISBN: 0521532175 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 02 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Stories of Peoplehood : The Politics and Morals of Political Membership by Rogers M. Smith, Ian Shapiro ISBN: 0521520037 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 19 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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