TY - BOOK AU - Alexander,Jeffrey C. TI - The meanings of social life: a cultural sociology SN - 0195160843 (cloth) AV - HM585 .A5 2003 U1 - 301 22 PY - 2003/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Sociology KW - Prejudices KW - Culture KW - Violence N1 - include reference ,index; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: The meanings of (social) life: on the origins of a cultural sociology -- 1. The strong program in cultural sociology (with Philip Smith) -- 2. On the social construction of "moral universals" -- 3. The "holocaust" from war crime to trauma drama: Cultural trauma and collective idenitity -- 4. A cultural sociology of evil -- 5. The discourse of American civil society (with Smith) -- 6. Watergate as democratic ritual -- 7. The sacred and profane information machine -- 8. Modern, anti, post, and neo: how intellectuals explain "our time" UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0613/2002155273-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0613/2002155273-t.html ER -