In this collaboratively authored work, five distinguished sociologists develop an ambitious
theoretical model of" cultural trauma"—and on this basis build a new understanding of how …

N THIS WORK, three of the most important theorists in contemporary European sociology
contribute extended essays on the topic of “reflexive modernization', a concept first introduced …

… live in these more reflexive and fragmented societies are also aware that, for better and
for worse, such processes of rationalization in fact have not completely won the day (Alexander …

… Alexander 2012 … Alexander to be identified as Author of this Work has been asserted in
accordance with the … formed the chapters of Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (Alexander, …

… My parents, Frederick Charles Alexander and Esther Leah Schlossman Alexander, provided
the sense of moral seriousness and intellectual engagement without which it would not …

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and combined contributions to postoperative blood loss in cardiopulmonary (CP) bypass …

At first, therefore, logic must indeed be learned as something which one understands and
sees into quite well but in which, at the beginning, one feels the lack of scope and depth and a …

In The Meanings of Social Life, Jeffrey Alexander presents a … patterns of meaning are revealed,
Alexander argues, can we … , this book confirms Jeffrey Alexander's reputation as one of …

… The anthropologist Alexander Hinton has suggested that, “while the behaviors it references
have an ancient pedigree, the concept of genocide . . . is thoroughly modern” (Hinton 2002, …

… Emerging out of Alexander’s Watergate research, we published studies about the “discourse
of civil society” from the early 1990s. These offered a new way of reading politics (eg …