Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual

ISBN-13: 9780521674621 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 392 str.

Connecticut) Jeffrey C. Alexander (Yale University; Germany) Bernhard Giesen (Universität Konstanz; Connecticut) Jason L. Mast (Yale University

Opis

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.