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Jeffrey Alexander and the Cultural Turn in Social Theory

Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University, ron.eyerman{at}yale.edu

This paper traces developments in Jeffrey Alexander’s cultural sociology. The aim is to introduce the reader to the key components of this theory as it developed from a functionalist focus on societal values through semiotics and linguistic structuralism to a theory of cultural trauma and collective performance.

Key Words: cultural sociology • culture • performance • structure

Thesis Eleven, Vol. 79, No. 1, 25-30 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/0725513604046953


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