The meaningful construction of inequality and the struggles against it: A 'strong program' approach to how social boundaries change

Cultural Sociology

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 23-30

  Alexander, Jeffrey C ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Civil society; Cultural sociology; Culture; Inequalities; Strong program; Symbolic boundaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250639917     PISSN: 17499755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1749975507073915     Document Type: Article

References (11)

1. Alexander, Jeffrey C. (1982-83) Theoretical Logic in Sociology (4 volumes). Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
2. Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2003) The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press.
3. Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2005) 'Performance and Power', Culture, Fall: 1-5.
4. Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2006a) The Civil Sphere. New York: Oxford University Press.
5. Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2006b) 'Performance and Counter-Power (1): The Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Sphere', Culture, Winter: 1-6.
6. Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2006c) 'Performance and Counter-Power (2): The Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Sphere', Culture, Spring: 1-4.
7. Alexander, Jeffrey C. and Smith, Philip (2003) 'The Strong Program in Cultural Sociology: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics', in Jeffrey C. Alexander (2003) The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology, pp. 11-26. New York: Oxford University Press.
8. Lamont, Michele (2000) The Dignity of Working Men: Morality and the Boundaries of Race, Class, and Immigration. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
9. Mast, Jason (2006) 'The Cultural Pragmatics of Event-ness: The Clinton/ Lewinsky Affair', in Jeffrey C. Alexander, Bernhard Giesen and Jason Mast (eds) Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual, pp. 115-145. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
10. Reed, Isaac and Alexander, Jeffrey C. (2006) 'Culture', in B. Turner (ed.) The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, p. 111-111. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
11. Walzer, Michael (1984) Spheres of Justice. New York: Basic Books.