01828nam a22003494a 4500 ebr10085314 CaPaEBR 20260707191647.0 m u cr cn||||||||| 021209s2003 enk sb 001 0 eng 0195160843 (cloth) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)58992173 HM585 .A5 2003eb 301 21 Alexander, Jeffrey C. 114440 The meanings of social life [electronic resource] : a cultural sociology / by Jeffrey C. Alexander. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2003. 296 p. 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". Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Sociology. 731 Prejudices. 99735 Culture. 870 Violence. 23406 Electronic books. local 190 ebrary, Inc. 191 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/strathmore/Doc?id=10085314 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view EBK 216960 188212