The meanings of social life:a cultural sociology

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Alexander Jeffrey C
Published: Oxford University Press,
Publisher Address: Oxford New York
Publication Dates: 2006.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Carrier Form: x, 296 p.: ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 0195306406 (pbk.)
9780195306408 (pbk.)
Index Number: C912
CLC: C912.4
C91
G05
Call Number: C91/A376
Contents: "First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2006."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The meanings of (social) life: on the origins of a cultural sociology -- 1. The strong program in cultural sociology : elements of a structural Hermeneutics (with Philip Smith) -- 2. On the social construction of moral universals : the "Holocaust" from war crime to trauma drama -- 3. Cultural trauma and collective idenitity -- 4. A cultural sociology of evil -- 5. The discourse of American civil society (with Philip Smith) -- 6. Watergate as democratic ritual -- 7. The sacred and profane information machine -- 8. Modern, anti, post, and neo: how intellectuals explain "our time"