Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xv, 374 pages)
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511616839
Series Statement:
Cambridge cultural social studies
Content:
Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. Performance has always been used by sociologists to understand the social world but this volume offers the first systematic analytical framework based on the performance metaphor to explain large-scale social and cultural processes. From September 11, to the Clinton/Lewinsky affair, to the role of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Social Performance draws on recent work in performative theory in the humanities and in cultural studies to offer a novel approach to the sociology of culture. Inspired by the theories of Austin, Derrida, Durkheim, Goffman, and Turner, this is a path-breaking volume that makes a major contribution to the field. It will appeal to scholars and students alike.
Content:
Introduction : Symbolic action in theory and practice : the cultural pragmatics of symbolic action / Jeffrey C. Alexander and Jason L. Mast -- Cultural pragmatics : social performance between ritual and strategy ; From the depths of despair : performance, counterperformance, and "September 11" / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- The cultural pragmatics of event-ness : the Clinton/Lewinsky affair / Jason L. Mast -- Social dramas, shipwrecks, and cockfights : conflict and complicity in social performance / Isaac Reed -- Performing a "new" nation : the role of the TRC in South Africa / Tanya Goodman -- Performing opposition or, how social movements move / Ron Eyerman -- Politics as theatre : an alternative view of the rationalities of power / David E. Apter -- Symbols in action : Willy Brandt's kneefall at the Warsaw memorial / Valentin Rauer -- The promise of performance and the problem of order / Kay Junge -- Performance art / Bernhard Giesen -- Performing the sacred : a Durkheimian perspective on the performative turn in the social sciences / Bernhard Giesen
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521674621
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521857956
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Social performance Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006 ISBN 9780521674621
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521857956
Additional Edition:
ISBN 052167462X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521857953
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
,
Sociology
Keywords:
Symbolik
;
Soziales Handeln
;
Kultursoziologie
;
Soziales Handeln
;
Ritual
;
Soziologische Theorie
;
Performanz
;
Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CBO9780511616839
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Author information:
Giesen, Bernhard 1948-2020
Author information:
Alexander, Jeffrey C. 1947-
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