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Reconstructing the Social Space of Culture

University of Konstanz and Yale University, Bernhard.Giesen{at}uni-konstanz.de

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.

Key Words: classical social theory • cultural sociology • Durkheim • performance

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