Social performance
Jeffrey C Alexander, Bernhard Giesen · 2006
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About the book
"Taking a "cultural pragmatic" approach to meaning, the contributors suggest a new way of looking at the continuum that stretches between ritual and strategic action. They do so by developing, for the first time, a model of "social performance". This volume offers the first systematic and analytical framework that transforms the metaphor into a social theory and applies it to a series of facinating large-scale social and cultural processes - from September 11 and the Clinton/Lewinsky Affair, to the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Willy Brandt's famous "kneefall" before the Warsaw momument."--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2006
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 392
- ISBN
- 9780521674621
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