Overview
- The first volume to synthesize the reactions of leading cultural sociologists to the 2016 presidential election
- Provides a comprehensive accounting of the election’s key actors, institutions, and processes
- Allows scholars and students to see the methodologies and theories of cultural sociology in action
Part of the book series: Cultural Sociology (CULTSOC)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Political Legitimacy and the Civil Sphere
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Afterword
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Jason L. Mast is a Research Fellow at the Normative Orders Excellence Cluster at Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of The Performative Presidency: Crisis and Resurrection During the Clinton Years.
Jeffrey C. Alexander is Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University, and a Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology. He is the author of The Performance of Politics: Obama’s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power and co-author of Obama Power.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics
Book Subtitle: Cultural Sociology of the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election
Editors: Jason L. Mast, Jeffrey C. Alexander
Series Title: Cultural Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95945-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-95944-3Published: 23 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-95945-0Published: 12 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-3572
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3580
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 292
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Political Sociology, Sociology of Culture, Sociological Theory, Media Sociology, US Politics