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Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual

By Jeffrey C. Alexander (Ed.) , Bernhard Giesen (Ed.) , Jason L. Mast (Ed.)

Book information

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0521857953, 9780521857956, 9780511169229
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4535921 bytes)
Series
Cambridge Cultural Social Studies
Pages
392\393
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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