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2010
- Power, Politics, and The Civil Sphere. 2.6 MB in Kevin Leicht and Craig Jenkins, eds., Handbook of Politics, New York: Springer. 1999.
- The ‘Marxism Project ’ in The History of Its Times. .06 MB Thesis Eleven February 2010 100: 81-83
- Marxism and the Spirit of Socialism: Cultural Origins of Anti-Capitalism (1982). 10 MB Thesis Eleven, February 2010 100: 84-105.
- Barack Obama Meets Celebrity Metaphor. .29 MB Society, Volume 47, Number 5, 410-418, 2010
2009
- Social Science as Reading and Performance: A Cultural-Sociological Understanding of Epistemology. 0.16 MB (with Isaac Reed). European Journal of Social Theory, 12(1): 21–41, February, 2009.
- Social Subjectivity Psychotherapy as Central Institution. 0.07 MB Thesis Eleven, 96:128-134. 2009.
- The Democratic Struggle for Power: The 2008 Presidential Campaign in the United States. 0.14 MB The Journal of Power, Taylor and Francis, Journal of Power, Vol. 2, No. 1, April 2009.
- What We Learn from the Humanities. 1.2 MB Paper given at conference in honor of Professor Rugh Katz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December, 2008 in Culture, the Newsletter of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, Volume 23:1, spring 2009.
- Russian Translation_Power. 2.6 MB
2008
- Civil Sphere, State and Citizenship: Replying to Turner and the Fear of Enclavement. 0.10 MB Citizenship Studies, Volume 12, Issue 2 April 2008 , pages 185 – 194
- Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program: The Human Sciences and Cultural Sociology. 0.25 MB Cultural Sociology 2008; 2; 157
- Iconic Consciousness: The Material Feeling of Meaning . 0.13 MB Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26: 782-794. 2008.
- Iconic Experience in Art and Life: Beginning with Giacometti’s “Standing Woman”. 0.35 MB in Theory, Culture and Society, 25(3), May 2008.
- Performing Cultural Sociology: A Conversation with Jeffrey Alexander. 0.15 MB Interview by Rodrigo Cordero, Francisco Carballo, and José Ossandón, European Journal of Social Theory 11(4): 523–542. 2008.
2007
- Remembrance of Things Past: Cultural Trauma, the Nanking Massacre” and Chinese Identity. 0.24 MB in Peking-Yale University Conference Publication on Tradition & Modernity: Comparative Perspectives, 2007.
- Alexander-Performance-Cultural-Pragmatics. 54.1 MB
- Globalization as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere. 0.73 MB pp. 371-382 in Frontiers Of Globalization Research: Theoretical And Methodological Approaches, Edited by Ino Rossi. Springer, 2007.
- Keeping Faith with The Civil Sphere, and My Critics . 0.31 MB Perspectives, October 2007: 10-15
- Power and Performance: The War on Terror between the Sacred and the Profane 0.36 MB RSCAS Distinguished Lectures, 2007/01, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, 2007
- On the Interpretation of The Civil Sphere: Understanding and Contention in Contemporary Social Science. 0.15 MB Sociological Quarterly 48 (Fall 2007): 641-659.
- The Meaningful Construction of Inequality and the Struggles Against It: A ‘Strong Program’ Approach to How Social Boundaries Change. Cultural Sociology, Volume 1 (1):23-30. 2007. 0.09 MB
2006
- Cultural Pragmatics-Social Performace between Ritual and Strategy. 1.7 MB Reprinted in: J. Alexander, B. Giesen and J. Mast, eds., Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics and Ritual. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Introduction: Symbolic Action in Theory and Practice: The Cultural Pragmatics of Symbolic Action. 0.68 MB in J. Alexander, B. Giesen, and J. Mast, eds., Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics and Ritual. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
- Performance and Counter Power-1: The Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Sphere. 0.07 MB Culture, Volume 20, No. 2 (Winter 2006)
- Performance and Counter Power-2:The Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Sphere. 0.08 MB Culture, Volume 20, No. 3 (Spring 2006)
- TCS-Global Civil Society. 0.06 MB
2005
- Contradictions in the Societal Community: The Promise and Disappointments of Parsons’ Concept. 2.5 MB pp. 93-110 in R. Fox, V. Lidz, and H. Bershady, eds., After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty-First Century. Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.
- Performance and Power. 0.10 MB Culture, Volume 20, #1 (Autumn 2005).
- Central Problems of Cultural Sociology: A Reply to My (Friendly) Critics.” 4.5 MB Culture, Winter, 2005
- Introduction: The New Durkheim. 2.9 MB (with P. Smith), pp. 1-37, in J. Alexander and P. Smith, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. Cambridge University Press, 2005.
- The Dark Side of Modernity: Tension Relief, Splitting, and Grace. 0.73 MB pp. 171-182, in E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Sternberg, eds., Comparing Modernities: Pluralism Versus Homogenity. Essays in Homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. Leiden: Brill. 2005.
- The Sixties and Me: From Cultural Revolution to Cultural Theory,. 0.65 MB pp. 37-47, in A. Sica and S. Turner, eds., The Disobedient Generation. University of Chicago Press, 2005.
- Why Cultural Sociology is not ‘Idealist’: A Reply to McClennan. 0.09 MB Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 22(6): 19–29, 2005.
2004
- On the Social Construction of Moral Universals. 0.76 MB Reprinted in: Alexander et al., Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. University of California Press, 2004, pp. 196-263.
- Rethinking Strangeness. 0.16 MB Thesis Eleven 79, November 2004: 87-104
- Mastering Ambivalence: Neil Smelser as a Sociologist of Synthesis. 4.3 MB (with M. Marx and C. Williams), pp. 1-16 in Alexander et al., eds., Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology, University of California Press, 2004.
- From the Depths of Despair: Performance and Counter-Performance on September 11th.. 0.14 MB Sociological Theory 22 (1) 2004: 88-105.
- Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy. 7.1 MB Sociological Theory 22 (4) 2004: 527-573.
- Iconic Experience in Art and Life Beginning with Giacometti’s Standing Woman. 0.76 MB
2003
- The Meanings of Social Life. 1.40 MB pp. 3-10 in Alexander, The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Towards a New Macrosociological Theory. .091 MB Reprinted in: Yale Journal of Sociology 3 (Fall 2003): 45-48.(Original article in Theory, the Newsletter of the Theory Section of the International Sociological Association, Spring 2003: 3-5.)
2002
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2000
- Contradictions: The Uncivilizing Pressures of Space, Time, and Function. 1.14MB (In English. Portuguese version, 1997.)
- Las sociedades civiles entre la diferencia y la solidaridad: Reflexiones sobre la integración en la fragmentada esfera pública. 1.19MB (In Spanish. English version, 1998.)
- Neofunktionalismus, with Paul Colomy. 0.75 MB In H. P. Muller and Steffen Sigmund (eds.), Zeitgenossische amerikianische Soziologie (Modern American Sociology), pp. 135-146. Opladen: Leske/Budrich. (In German. English version, 1990; Russian translation, 1992; Spanish translation, 1992.)
- Sociedad Civil. 0.70MB (In Spanish. English version, 1997.)
- Theorizing the Good Society: Hermeneutic, Normative, and Empirical Discourses. 2.43MB (In English. Italian version, 1997.)
- This Worldly Mysticism: Inner Peace and World Transformation in the Work and Life of Charles “Skip” Alexander. 0.56MB
1999
- Cultural Structures, Social Action, and the Discourses of American Civil Society: A Reply to Battani, Hall, and Powers, with Philip Smith. 0.42MB
- «The Discourse of American Civil Society...», with Philip Smith. 0.00 MB (In Chinese. English version, 1993; German translation, 1994.)
- The Ideological Discourse of Cultural Discontent: Paradoxes, Realities and Alternative Ways of Thinking, with Neil J. Smelser. 1.12MB
- «The Paradoxes of Civil Society». 1.28MB (In Ukranian. First English version, 1994; Spanish translation, 1994; Italian translation, 1995; English reprint, 1997.)
- The Public Representation of Culture and History, with Neil J. Smelser. 0.67MB
- Why We Might All be Able to Live Together: An Immanent Critique of Alain Touraine’s Pourrons-nous vivre ensemble? 0.53MB
1998
- Ação coletiva, cultura e sociedade civil: Secularização, inversão, revisão e deslocamento do modelo clássico dos movimentos sociais. 3.23MB Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais, 13 (37): 5-31. (In Portuguese. English version, 1996.)
- «After Neofunctionalism...». 0.85MB In S. I. Grigoryev and J. Coenen Huther (eds.), Contemporary Sociology. (In Russian. English version, 1997.)
- Civil Society Between Difference and Solidarity: Rethinking Integration in the Fragmented Public Sphere. 0.94MB Theoria: Journal of Social and Political Theory, 92 (December): 1-14. (In English. Spanish translation, 2000.)
- Mass Communication, Ritual, and Civil Society, with Ronald N. Jacobs. 1.69MB In T. Leibes and J. Curran (eds.), Media, Ritual and Identity, pp. 23-41. Routledge.
- Sociologie culturelle ou sociologie de la culture? Un programme fort pour donner à la sociologie son second souffle, with Philip Smith. 0.90MB Sociologie et Societes, 30 (1): 107-116. (In French.)
- Sociology, Theories of. 0.66MB Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 10: 2-8. London: Routledge.
1997
- After Neofunctionalism: Action, Culture, and Civil Society. 2.16MB In J. C. Alexander, Neofunctionalism and After, pp. 210-233. Basil Blackwell. (In English. Russian translation, 1998.)
- Aspectos não-civis da sociedade: Espaço, tempo e função. 1.02MB Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais, 33 (12): 169-179. (In Portuguese. English verison, 2000.)
- Bush, Hussein and the Cultural Preparation for War: Toward a More Symbolic Theory of Political Legitimation. 2.67MB Epoche: Journal for the Study of Religions, 2 (1): xx-yy.
- Civil Society I, II, III: Constructing an Empirical Concept from Normative Controversies and Historical Transformations. 1.00MB In J. C. Alexander (ed.), Real Civil Societies, pp. 1-20. London: Sage Publications. (In English. Spanish translation, 2000.)
- From Functionalism to Neofunctionalism: Creating a Position in the Field of Social Theory. 1.91MB In J. C. Alexander, Neofunctionalism and After, pp. 3-24. Basil Blackwell.
- La società civile democratica: Istituzioni e valori. 3.71MB In P. Donati (ed.), L’etica civile alla fine del XX secolo, pp. 107-153. Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. (In Italian. English version, 2000.)
- Les Règles secrètes de Durkheim. 0.62MB In E.H. Cuin (ed.), Durkheim d’un siecle a l’autre: Lectures actuelles des regles de la methode sociologique, pp. 191-202. Paris: PUF. (In French.)
- The Paradoxes of Civil Society. 1.93MB International Sociology, 12 (2): 115-133. (English reprint. First English version, 1994; Spanish translation, 1994; Italian translation, 1995; Ukranian translation, 1999.)
- The Paradoxical Relations of Self and Society in American Sociological Thought. 0.23MB In J. C. Alexander, R. Boudon and M. Cherkaoui (eds.), The Classic Tradition in Sociological Theory, pp. i-xv. London: Sage Publications.
- Une histoire critique de la sociologie allemande: Postface. 0.52MB In F. Vandenberghe, Une histoire critique de la cociologie allemande, pp. 341-345. Paris: La Decouverte/MAUSS. (In French.)
1996
- Collective Action, Culture and Civil Society: Secularizing, Updating, Inverting, Revising and Displacing the Classical Model of Social Movements. 2.09MB In M. Diani and J. Clarke (eds.), Alain Touraine, pp. 205-234. Falmer Press. (In English. Portuguese translation, 1998.)
- Cultural Sociology or Sociology of Culture? 0.32 MB Culture, 10 (3-4): 1-5.
- Critical Reflections on “Reflexive Modernization” (Review Essay). 0.53MB Theory, Culture and Society, 13 (4): 133-138.
- Durkheim’s Religious Revival, with Philip Smith (Review Essay, E. Durkheim/K. E. Fields trans., The Elementary Forms of Religious Life). 0.52MB American Journal of Sociology, 102 (2): 585-592.
- Honneth’s New Critical Theory of Recognition, with Maria P. Lara. 0.71MB New Left Review, N. 220 (Sep/Oct): 126-137.
- On Choosing One’s Intellectual Predecessors: The Reductionism of Camic’s Treatment of Parsons and the Institutionalists, with G. Sciortino. 0.45 MB Sociological Theory, 14 (2): 154-172.
- Social Science and Salvation: Risk Society as Mythical Discourse, with Philip Smith. 1.28MB Zeitschrift fur Soziologie, Aug: 251-262.
1995
- How “National” is Social Theory? A Note on Some Worrying Trends in the Recent Theorizing of Richard Munch. 0.37MB Revue suisse de sociologie, 21 (3): 541-546. (Abridged English reprint. First English version, 1994; Full English reprint, 1995.)
- How “National” is Social Theory? Critical Notes on Some Worrying Trends in the Recent Theorizing of Richard Munch. 1.10MB Sociologia, 24 (2/3): 120-138. (English reprint. First English version, 1994; Abridged English reprint, 1995.)
- I paradossi della società civile. Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, 36 (3): 319-339. 1.19MB (In Italian. First English version, 1994; Spanish translation, 1994; English reprint, 1997; Ukranian translation, 1999.)
- Modern, Anti, Post and Neo. 1.96MB New Left Review, N. 210 (Mar/Apr): 63-102. (English reprint. First English version, 1994)
- Presentazione. 1.29 MB In Talcott Parsons, Prolegomeni a una Theoria delle Istituzioni Sociali. Armando Mondadori. (In Italian. First English version, 1990; English reprint, 1992.)
- The Reality of Reduction: The Failed Synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu. 7.89MB In J. C. Alexander, Fin de Siècle Social Theory, pp. 128-217. Verso. (In English. Italian translation, 2001.)
- Watergate. 0.30MB In S. M. Lipset (ed.), Encyclopedia of Democracy, pp. 1367-1369. Quarterly Press and Routledge.
1994
- Der Diskurs der amerikanischen Zivilgesellschaft: Ein neuer kultursoziologischer Entwurf, with Philip Smith. 2.23MB Berlin Journal fur Soziologie, 4 (2): 157-179. (In German. English version, 1993; Chinese translation, 1999.)
- Funzionalismo e neofunzionalismo, with Paul Colomy. 2.67MB Enciclopedia delle Scienze Sociali, 4: 199-219. (In Italian.)
- How “National” is Social Theory? A Note on Some Worrying Trends in the Recent Theorizing of Richard Munch. 0.30MB Theory: Newsletter of the Theory Section of the International Sociological Association, Autumn: 2-8. (In English. Full English reprint, 1995; Abridged English reprint, 1995.)
- Interview with Jeffrey Alexander on Cultural Sociology. 0.61MB Sociology Newsletter of Hong Kong University, Volume 3.
- Las paradojas de la sociedad civil. 1.29MB Revista Internacional de Filosofia Politica, 4: 73-89. (In Spanish. First English version, 1994; Italian translation, 1995; English reprint, 1997; Ukranian translation, 1999.)
- Modern, Anti, Post, and Neo: How Social Theories Have Tried to Understand the “New World” of “Our Time”. 3.16MB Zeitschrift fur Soziologie, 23 (3): 165-197. (In English. Reprinted in English, 1995)
- Religio. 0.58MB In C. Mongardini and M. Ruini (eds.), Religio: Ruolo del Sacro, Coesione Sociale e Nuove Forme di Soidarieta nella Societa Contemporanea, pp. 15-24. Bulzoni Editore.
- The Paradoxes of Civil Society. 1.11MB Social Sciences Research Centre, Occasional Paper 16, pp. 3-21. University of Hong Kong. (In English. Spanish translation, 1994; Italian translation, 1995; English reprint, 1997; Ukranian translation, 1999.)
1993
- Citizen and Enemy as Symbolic Classification: On the Polarizing Discourse of Civil Society. 1.00MB In M. Fournier and M. Lamont (eds.), Where Culture Talks: Exclusion and the Making of Society, pp. 289-308. Chicago University Press. (Full English version. Abridged English version, 1991; Italian version, 1990.)
- Die neue Theoriebewegung: Eine ihrer Erscheinungsformen. 1.16MB In J. C. Alexander (ed.), Soziale Differenzierund und Kultureller Wandel Studien zur Neofunktionalistischen Gesellschafstheori, pp. 31-47. Frankfurt, Germany: Campus Verlag. (In German. Spanish version, 1991.)
- “Formal Sociology” is not Multidimensional: Breaking the “Code” in Parsons’ Fragment on Simmel. 0.88MB Teoria Sociologica, 1 (1): 101-114.
- More Notes on the Problem of Agency: A Reply. 0.33MB Revue suisse de sociologie, 19: 501-506.
- Reduction and Deceit in Social Theory. 0.49MB In H. Martins (ed.), Knowledge and Passion: Essays in Honour of John Rex, pp. 119-136. I. B. Tauris.
- Retorno a la democracia: La solidaridad universalista y el mundo 1.00MB In Modernizacion Economica, Democracia Politica y Democracia Social, pp. 39-62. Centro de Estudios Sociologicos, el Colegio de Mexico. (In Spanish. English version, 1991)
- Risking Enchantment: Theory and Method in Cultural Studies, with Philip Smith and Steven Sherwood. 0.48MB Culture: Newsletter of the Culture Section of the American Sociological Association, 8 (1): 10-14.
- The British are Coming... Again! The Hidden Agenda of “Cultural Studies”, with Philip Smith and Steven Sherwood. 0.19 MB Contemporary Sociology, 22 (3): 370-375.
- The Discourse of American Civil Society: A New Proposal for Cultural Studies, with Philip Smith. 3.53MB Theory and Society, 22 (2): 151-207. (In English. German translation, 1994; Chinese translation, 1999.)
- The Return to Civil Society (A review essay of J. Cohen and A. Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory). 0.19MB Contemporary Sociology, 22 (6): 797-803.
1992
- «Neofunctionalism Today...», with Paul Colomy. 0.00 MB Sociologica, 7 (20): 195-236. (In Spanish. English version, 1990; Russian translation, 1992; German translation, 2000.)
- «Neofunctionalism Today...», with Paul Colomy. 0.74 MB Sociological Studies, October: 112-120. Pekjiama. (In Russian. English version, 1990; Spanish translation, 1992; German translation, 2000.)
- Recent Sociological Theory Between Agency and Social Structure. 0.33 MB Revue suisse de sociologie. 18 (1): 7-11. (English reprint. First English version, 1992.)
- Shaky Foundations: The Presuppositions and Internal Contradictions of James Coleman's Foundations of Social Theory. 0.82 MB Theory and Society, 21: 203-217.
- Some Remarks on 'Agency' in Recent Sociological Theory. 0.36 MB Perspectives: Newsletter of the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association, 15 (1): 14. (In English. English reprint, 1992.)
- Structure, Value, Action: On Parson’s “Prolegomena”. 0.00 MB In Peter Hamilton (ed.), Talcott Parsons: Critical Assessments, pp. 52-61. Routledge. (English reprint. First English version, 1990; Italian translation, 1995.)
- The Fallacy of the Scientific Choice Between Structures and Meanings: A Reply to Therborn 0.94 MB Theory: Newsletter of the Theory Section of the International Sociological Association, 2 (1): 1-2.
- The Fragility of Progress: An Interpretation of the Turn Towards Meaning in Eisenstadt's Later Work. 0.73 MB Acta Sociologica, 35: 85-94.
- Traditions and Competition: Preface to a Post-Positivist Approach to Knowledge Cumulation, with Paul Colomy 1.68 MB In G. Ritzer (ed.), Metatheorizing, pp. 27-52. Sage.
1991
- Bringing Democracy Back In: Universalistic Solidarity and the Civil Sphere. 1.00 MB In C. Lemert (ed.), Intellectuals and Politics: Social Theory in a Changing World, pp. 157-176. Sage. (In English. Spanish translation, 1993.)
- Clásicos y contemporáneos en la teoría sociológica: Entrevista con Jeffrey C. Alexander, by Gina Zabludovsky. 1.10 MB By Gina Zabludovsky, Acta Sociologica, 4 (2-3): 17-34. (In Spanish.)
- Neofunctionalism and Modern Society: Introduction. 1.24 MB In H. Etzkowitz and R. Glassman (eds.), The Renaissance of Sociological Theory: Classical and Contemporary, pp. 267-275. F.E. Peacock Publishers.
- Sobre Theoretical Logic in Sociology: Objetivos Intelectuales y Contexto Histórico y Biográfico. 0.80 MB Acta Sociologica, 4 (2-3). (In Spanish. German translation, 1993.)
- Sociological Theory and the Claim to Reason: Why the End Is Not in Sight. 0.54 MB Sociological Theory, 10 (2): 147-153.
- The Deceptiveness of Morality: On the Discourse of Liberty and Repression. 0.51MB In C. Mongardini (ed.), Due Dimensioni Delta Societa L'Utile e la Morale, pp. 41-50. Bulzoni Editore. (Abridged English version. Full English version, 1993; Italian version, 1990.)
- Understanding Social Science: Giving Up the Positivist Ghost. 0.25 MB Perspectives: Newsletter of the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association. 14 (1): 1-4.
1990
- Between Progress and Apocalypse: Social Theory and the Dream of Reason in the Twentieth Century. 0.75 MB In J. C. Alexander and P. Sztompka (eds.), Rethinking Progress, pp. 15-39. Unwin Hyman Limited. (In English. Chinese translation, 1990.)
- Beyond the Epistemological Dilemma: General Theory in a Post-Positivist Mode. 0.73 MB Sociological Forum, Vol. 5 (4): 531-544.
- Intelectuales rencidos. 0.38 MB Topodrilo, 14 (Nov-Dec): 36-39. Mexico: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana. (In Spanish.)
- Morale e Repressione. 0.40 MB Mondoperai, 12 (Dec): 127-130. Rome. (In Italian, abridged. Abridged English version, 1991; Full English version, 1993.)
- Must We Choose Between Criticism and Faith? Reflections on the Later Work of Benjamin Barber. 0.51 MB Sociological Theory, 9 (1): 124-130.
- Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition, with Paul Colomy. 2.36 MB In G. Ritzer (ed.), Frontiers of Sociological Theory, pp. 33-67. Columbia University Press. (In English. Russian translation, 1992; Spanish translation, 1992; German translation, 2000.)
- Structure, Value, Action: On Parson’s “Prolegomena”. 0.63 MB American Sociological Review, 55 (3): 339-345. (In English. English reprint, 1992; Italian translation, 1995.)
- Sacred and Profane Information Machine. 1.5 MB
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1981
- Looking for Theory: ‘Facts’ and ‘Values’ as the Intellectual Legacy of the 1970's,". 0.82 MB "Looking for Theory: Theory and Society. V. 10, 1981: 279-2
- The Mass News Media in Systemic, Historical and Comparative Perspective . 1.8 MB E. Katz and T. Szecsko, eds., Mass Media and Social Change. Sage, 1981: 17-51.
- Revolution, Reaction, and Reform: The Change Theory of Parsons's Middle Period. 0.94 MB Sociological Inquiry, Volume 51, Issue 3, Date: July 1981, Pages: 267-280
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