The Drama of Politics : Jeffrey Alexander’s Liberal Sociology of Political Performances
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<a href="http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0725513617727793" target="_blank" >http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0725513617727793</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0725513617727904" target="_blank" >10.1177/0725513617727904</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Drama of Politics : Jeffrey Alexander’s Liberal Sociology of Political Performances
Original language description
The concept of social performance is a major theoretical innovation of the strong program in cultural sociology, championed by Jeffrey C. Alexander. This article offers a critical assessment of Alexander’s last four monographs on political performances with the explicit aim of contributing to the future development of the performance approach. After an outline of Alexander’s theory of performance, I continue to discuss his book-length empirical contributions, highlighting the innovations introduced by each study. Confronting Alexander’s research strategies with his theoretical framework, I propose a recalibration of his ‘liberal’ sociology of performance, bringing ‘conservative’ aspects of political culture back in, first of all particularity and historicity. This entails a rethinking of performance effects in terms of ‘resonances’ attuned to particular audiences and a deeper hermeneutic engagement with specific historical backgrounds of collective representations in order to overcome the one-sidedness of Alexander’s constructivist approach.
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50401 - Sociology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
V - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z jinych verejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2017
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Name of the periodical
Thesis Eleven
ISSN
0725-5136
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Volume of the periodical
142
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
18
Pages from-to
112-129
UT code for WoS article
000412162600009
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85030219360