ALEXANDER C. JEFFREY

ΣΥΓΧΡΟΝΗ ΕΙΣΑΓΩΓΗ ΣΤΗΝ ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΟΛΟΓΙΑ
Αντίθετα με αυτό που πιστεύουν οι περισσότεροι, η κοινωνιολογική έρευνα δεν περιλαμβάνει οπωσδήποτε μεγάλες δημοσκοπήσεις, ερωτηματολόγια και μεγαλόσχημους ερευνητές. Όλοι μας είμαστε απολύτως ικανοί να σκεφτούμε κοινωνιολογικά - για κάθε περίπτωση και ανά πάσα στιγμή. Καθώς είμαστε διαρκώς περιτριγυρισμένοι από ένα δεδομένο απόθεμα τεκμηρίων και κοινωνικών πρακτικών, ο κοινωνιολόγος μπορεί πάντα να αναζητήσει και να βρει πολλές και πλούσιες πηγές για την κοινωνιολογική του φαντασία... Η κλασική ιδέα του Τσαρλς Ράιτ Μιλς περί «κοινωνιολογι...
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(P/B) A CONTEMPORARY INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
The first edition of Alexander and Thompson's Contemporary Introduction to Sociology was the first truly new introduction to sociology textbook in decades. Written by two leading sociologists at the cutting edge of theory and research, the text reflected the idioms and interests of contemporary American life and global social issues. Paradigm Publishers is now pleased to announce the 2nd edition of this text, with new co-author Laura D. Edles. It continues to invite students to reflect upon their lives within the context of the combustible...
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(P/B) PERFORMANCE AND POWER
Performativity has emerged as a critical new idea across the humanities and social sciences, from literary and cultural studies to the study of gender and the philosophy of action. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander demonstrates how performance can reorient our study of politics and society. Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings. Positioning social performance between ritual and strategy, he lays out the elements of social performance - from scripts to mise-en-scene, from cri...
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(H/B) THE CIVIL SPHERE
How do real individuals live together in real societies in the real world? Jeffrey Alexander's masterful work, "The Civil Sphere", addresses this central paradox of modern life. Feelings for others--the solidarity that is ignored or underplayed by theories of power or self-interest--are at the heart of this novel inquiry into the meeting place between normative theories of what we think we should do and empirical studies of who we actually are. A grand and sweeping statement, "The Civil Sphere" is a major contribution to our thinking about...
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