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Jeffrey C. Alexander

Jeffrey C. Alexander

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Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
70
Citations
32690
World Ranking
753
National Ranking
356

Research.com Recognitions

  • 1979 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Jeffrey C. Alexander is affiliated with Yale University in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the social sciences, with a particular focus on sociology and political science. Over the course of their career, they have published extensively on topics including social and cultural dynamics, contemporary sociological theory and practice, as well as intersections between religion, society, and psychology.

Their research covers several specialized areas such as:

  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Health
  • Urban Studies
  • Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management

Key topics in their work address:

  • Social and Cultural Dynamics
  • Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
  • Religion and Society Interactions
  • Religion, Society, and Development
  • Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
  • Public Spaces through Art
  • Management and Organizational Studies

Prominent frequent co-authors include Philip Smith, Neil J. Smelser, Willa Sachs, Anna Lund, and Andrea Voyer, indicating collaborative efforts across multiple projects and topics. Their scholarly output appears often in venues such as the American Journal of Cultural Sociology, Thesis Eleven, Sociologisk Forskning, Sociology Theory Methods Marketing, and Society.

Recent notable publications comprise:

  • COVID-19 and symbolic action: global pandemic as code, narrative, and cultural performance (2020) in American Journal of Cultural Sociology
  • The performativity of objects (2020) in Sociologisk Forskning
  • Cultural sociology in a secular age (2020) in American Journal of Cultural Sociology
  • Civil Sphere and Transitions to Peace: Cultural Trauma and Civil Repair (2020) in International Journal of Politics Culture and Society
  • Recovering the primitive in the modern: The cultural turn and the origins of cultural sociology (2021) in Thesis Eleven

Throughout their academic career, Jeffrey C. Alexander has contributed extensively to the understanding of cultural sociology and the sociopolitical context of contemporary issues.

Recognition of their work includes the award of Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1979.

Best Publications

  • The civil sphere

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • Toward a Theory of Cultural Trauma

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity

    Jeffrey C. Alexander;Ron Eyerman;Bernard Giesen;Neil J. Smelser

  • Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy*:

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • Theoretical logic in sociology

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • The Micro-macro link

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • Fin De Siecle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction, and the Problem of Reason

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • The discourse of American civil society: A new proposal for cultural studies

    Jeffrey C. Alexander;Philip Smith

  • Action and Its Environments: Toward a New Synthesis

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • Las teorías sociológicas desde la segunda guerra mundial: análisis multidimensional

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • Trauma: A Social Theory

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual

    Jeffrey C. Alexander;Bernhard Giesen;Jason L. Mast

  • Strong Program in Cultural Sociology

    Jeffrey C. Alexander;Philip Smith

  • Performance and Power

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • The Performance of Politics: Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • The Strong Program in Cultural Theory: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics

    Jeffrey Alexander;Philip Smith

  • On the Social Construction of Moral Universals The `Holocaust' from War Crime to Trauma Drama

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • Durkheimian sociology : cultural studies

    Jeffrey C. Alexander

  • Social Performance: Cultural pragmatics: social performance between ritual and strategy

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  • Mass communication, ritual and civil society

    Jeffrey C. Alexander;Ronald N. Jacobs

Frequent Co-Authors

Philip Smith
Philip Smith University of Connecticut
Neil J. Smelser
Neil J. Smelser University of California, Berkeley
Steven Seidman
Steven Seidman University at Albany, State University of New York
Elihu Katz
Elihu Katz University of Pennsylvania
Jonathan H. Turner
Jonathan H. Turner University of California, Riverside
Randall Collins
Randall Collins University of Pennsylvania
Peter H. Rossi
Peter H. Rossi University of Massachusetts Amherst
Richard A. Berk
Richard A. Berk University of Pennsylvania
Peter L. Berger
Peter L. Berger Boston University
Rogers Brubaker
Rogers Brubaker University of California, Los Angeles

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