TY - GEN AU - 20080729 AU - Alexander,Jeffrey C. AU - Giesen,Bernhard AU - Mast,Jason L. TI - Social performance : symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual: symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual SN - 0521857953 (hbk.) U1 - 306.01 PY - 2006/// CY - Cambridge, UK, New York PB - Cambridge University Press,2006. KW - Culture KW - Performative (Philosophy) KW - Action theory KW - Symbolism (Psychology) KW - Cognition and culture KW - Symbolic interactionism KW - Sociaal handelen KW - Symboliek KW - Riten N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006298282-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2006298282-t.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0733/2006298282-b.html ER -