THE DRAMA OF SOCIAL LIFE

n this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and ?cultural pragmatics? are vital for understanding the st ructural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary social life.Central to his approach is a new model of social perform ance that combines elements from both the theatrical avant-garde and modern social theory. Alexander uses this model to shed new lig ht on a wide range of social actors, movements and events: from Mao, Martin Luther King and Fanon to the Arab Spring and Black Lives Matter/...[Read more]