1. RECONSTRUCTING THE SOCIAL SPACE OF CULTURE.
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Giesen, Bernhard
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SOCIOLOGY , *CULTURE , *SOCIAL space , *PERFORMATIVE (Philosophy) , *SCHOOLS of sociology - Abstract
This paper retraces the conceptual development of Jeffrey Alexander's cultural sociology. It centres on three major conceptual achievements: first, the distinction between inside and outside and its more peculiar variants (like system and environment or friend and foe); second, the elaboration of the temporal axis as a distinct dimension of cultural analysis; and finally, the close focus on performativity that took centre-stage in cultural analysis during the last years. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2004
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