TY - BOOK AU - Alexander,Jeffrey C. TI - Performance and power SN - 9780745648187 AV - HN49.P6 A42 2011 PY - 2011/// CY - Cambridge, UK, Malden, MA PB - Polity KW - Power (Social sciences) KW - Performance KW - Social aspects KW - Performative (Philosophy) KW - Political aspects N1 - Jeffrey C. Alexander, Professor of Sociology at Yale University, is a key scholar in US sociology and among the most prolific and well-cited theorists in cultural sociology globally; Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-241) and index N2 - This is a study of the relationship between performance and power. In this volume, Jeffrey Alexander develops a cultural pragmatics that shifts cultural sociology from texts to gestural meanings and examines the elements of social performance ER -