Jeffrey C. Alexander & Bernhard Giesen 
Social Performance [PDF ebook] 
Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual

Farming in cities and small spaces is becoming increasingly popular, but it has its challenges. City Farming addresses the problems the urban farmer might face and turns them into creative solutions. …

First published in 1998. As beneficiaries of aggressive affirmative action policies, Chicano doctors and lawyers educated in universities during the 1960s and early 1970s now dominate Mexican America …

Based on ethnographic research conducted in ”Starlets”, a lap-dancing club in the North of England, this book delves into what is often seen as the ”deviant”, and ”stigmatized” world of lap-dan …

The Title ”Encyclopaedia of Dalits in India (Women) written/authored/edited by Sanjay Paswan, Paramanshi Jaideva”, published in the year 2002. The ISBN 9788178350325 is assigned to the Hardcover ve …

This account of culture and society in the villages of West Sumatra, Indonesia, during the period of Dutch colonialism is based on materials collected from the colonial archives, local Indonesian new …

This book examines the relations between the Limbus, an indigenous tribal people in East Nepal, and the Hindus who have entered their region during the past two hundred years. Describing the division …

First Published in 1998. Federalism became highly fashionable among all kind of blue-printers, those who believed in the capacity of constitutional forms to solve all the fundamental issues of social …

Representing a departure from traditional studies of social organisation, the book asserts that a kinship system is best understood as a system of concepts rather than as a set of empirical relations …

This is Volume XVII of eighteen in the Sociology of Development series. First published in 1967, this book focuses on the economics and of an Indian village, allowing Indian agriculture to be seen in …

First Published in 2005. The study of social administration is fundamentally the study of social policy, how it came to be in the developed communities of Western society, how it grew and how it succ …