Meanings of Social Life A Cultural Sociology

Name: Meanings of Social Life A Cultural Sociology
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ISBN: 9780195306408

ISBN-10: 0195306406

ISBN-13: 9780195306408

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jeffrey C. Alexander

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Modern men and women go about their lives without really knowing why. Why do we work for such a long time every day? Why are we so obsessed with technology? Why do we continuously construct scandals? Why do we finish one war only to fight another? If we had to explain these things, we would say "it just makes sense" or "it's necessary" or "it's what good (or bad) people do." But when we say that the war against terrorism is necessary and rational we use a rhetoric of good and evil, of friends and enemies, of honor, conscience, loyalty, of civilization and primeval chaos. These rhetorics rest on ideas and feelings, not just rational necessity, and they are of immense power and import. These…

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List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 11/24/2005
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction: The Meanings of (Social) Life: On the Origins of a Cultural Sociology



The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics (with Phillip Smith)



On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The ""Holocaust"" from War Crime to Trauma Drama



Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity



A Cultural Sociology of Evil



The Discourse of American Civil Society (with Phillip Smith)



Watergate as Democratic Ritual



The Sacred and Profane Information Machine



Modern, Anti, Post, and Neo: How Intellectuals Explain ""Our Time""


Notes


References


Index