The meanings of social life : a cultural sociology /
Alexander, Jeffrey C.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The meanings of (social) life: on the origins of a cultural sociology -- 1. The strong program in cultural sociology : elements of a structural Hermeneutics (with Philip Smith) -- 2. On the social construction of moral universals : the "Holocaust" from war crime to trauma drama -- 3. Cultural trauma and collective idenitity -- 4. A cultural sociology of evil -- 5. The discourse of American civil society (with Philip Smith) -- 6. Watergate as democratic ritual -- 7. The sacred and profane information machine -- 8. Modern, anti, post, and neo: how intellectuals explain "our time".
"First issued as an Oxford University Press paperback, 2006."
Sociology.
Prejudices.
Culture.
Violence.