Jeffrey Alexander and the Cultural Turn in Social Theory

Thesis Eleven 79 (1):25-30 (2004)
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This paper traces developments in Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology. The aim is to introduce the reader to the key components of this theory as it developed from a functionalist focus on societal values through semiotics and linguistic structuralism to a theory of cultural trauma and collective performance

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