02751nac a22004331u 4500 2006298282 0521857953 (hbk.) 052167462X (pbk.) 9780521857956 9780521674621 (OCoLC)ocm62132936 306.01 SOC 8630 8630 20080729 Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual / symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual / edited by Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen, Jason L. Mast. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press,2006. 2006. xv, 374 : ill. ; 24 cm. Cambridge cultural social studies Distributer: Bacca Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction : Symbolic action in theory and practice : the cultural pragmatics of symbolic action / Jeffrey C. Alexander and Jason L. Mast -- Cultural pragmatics : social performance between ritual and strategy ; From the depths of despair : performance, counterperformance, and "September 11" / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- The cultural pragmatics of event-ness : the Clinton/Lewinsky affair / Jason L. Mast -- Social dramas, shipwrecks, and cockfights : conflict and complicity in social performance / Isaac Reed -- Performing a "new" nation : the role of the TRC in South Africa / Tanya Goodman -- Performing opposition or, how social movements move / Ron Eyerman -- Politics as theatre : an alternative view of the rationalities of power / David E. Apter -- Symbols in action : Willy Brandt's kneefall at the Warsaw memorial / Valentin Rauer -- The promise of performance and the problem of order / Kay Junge -- Performance art / Bernhard Giesen -- Performing the sacred : a Durkheimian perspective on the performative turn in the social sciences / Bernhard Giesen. Catalogued by: Sara Culture. Performative (Philosophy) Action theory. Symbolism (Psychology) Cognition and culture. Symbolic interactionism. Sociaal handelen. Symboliek. Riten. Alexander, Jeffrey C., 1947- Giesen, Bernhard, 1948- Mast, Jason L. Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006298282-d.html Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006298282-t.html Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2006298282-b.html BB 306.01SOC 8630 8630 0 0 0 0 MAIN MAIN 1ST 2016-03-08 Purchase 1 306.01SOC 000010562 2025-07-15 00:00:00 2017-04-23 BB