杰弗里·亚历山大（Jeffrey C. Alexander）

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杰弗里·亚历山大，复旦大学社会科学高等研究院学术委员。

Curriculum Vitae

JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER

EDUCATION:

Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley, 1978

B.A. Harvard College, 1969, cum laude

POSITIONS:

Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University, 2004 -

Professor, Yale University, 2001- 2004

Professor Emeritus, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001-

Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1981- 2001

Assistant Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, 1976 1981

Lecturer, University of California, Berkeley, 1974 1976

VISITING APPOINTMENTS:

Kluge Fellow, Library of Congress, Spring 2009

Senior Research Professor, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2007-2008.

Visiting Fellow, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2005.

Visiting Fellow, Centre for the Study of Global Governance, The London School of Economics, 2005.

Permanent Guest Professor, Konstanz University, 2004-

Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, 1998 1999

Fellow, Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in the Social Sciences, Sweden, 1992, 1996

Fellow, School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, 1985 1986

Visiting Professor: Nankai University (1989), Hebrew University (1993), University of Bordeaux (1994), Ecole des Hautes Etudes des Sciences Politiques (1993), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (1994, 2001), Konstanz University (2002)

PUBLICATIONS

Authored Books

A Contemporary Introduction to Sociology: Culture and Society in Transition (with Kenneth Thompson). Paradigm Publishers, 2008.

The Civil Sphere. Oxford University Press, 2006.

Mary Douglas Best Book Prize. American Sociological Association, Culture Section, 2008.

Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award for Excellence in Sociology and Social Work, Association of American Publishers, 2006.

Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity (with Eyerman, Giesen, Smelser, and Sztompka). University of California Press, 2004.

The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology. Oxford University Press, 2003.

Korean translation: Sahoejeok Samui Uimi: Munwha Sahoehak, translated by Sunwoong Park. Seoul:Hanul, 2007

Chinese translation: Wu-Nan Book Inc. Forthcoming

Italian translation (partial): La Costruzione del Male: Dall’Olocausto all’ 11 settembre.

Il Mulino, 2006.

Neofunctionalism and After. Basil Blackwell. 1998.

Chinese translation: Yilin Press, 2003.

Fin de Siècle Social Theory: Relativism, Reduction and the Problem of Reason. Verso, 1995.

Chinese translation (Taiwan): 2003. (www.wewn.cc)

Structure and Meaning: Relinking Classical Sociology. Columbia University Press, 1989.

Action and Its Environments: Towards a New Synthesis. Columbia University Press, 1988.

Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory Since World War Two. Columbia University Press, Hutchinson, 1987.

Japanese Translation: Minerva Shobo, forthcoming.

Chinese Translation: (PRC) 1999.

Hungarian translation: Szociológiaelmélet A II. Világháború Után. Balassi Kiadó, 1996.

Korean translation: Hyondae Sahoe Iron ui Hurum. Minyongsa, 1993.

Spanish translation: Las Teorias Sociologicas Desdi la Segunda Guerra Mundial Analisis
Multidimensional. Gedisa, 1989.

Theoretical Logic in Sociology. University of California Press and Routledge Kegan Paul, 1982 83:

vol. I:    Positivism, Presuppositions, and Current Controversies
vol. II:    The Antinomies of Classical Thought. Marx and Durkheim
vol. III:    The Classical Attempt at Synthesis: Max Weber
vol. IV:    The Modern Attempt at Synthesis: Talcott Parsons

Japanese translation: Shahaigaku no Shiso, forthcoming.

Chinese translation: The Commercial Press, forthcoming.

Books in Translation:

Sociologia Cultural. Formas de clasificacion en las sorjedades complejas. Barcelona: Anthropos
(2000).

La Réduction: Critique de Bourdieu. Paris: le Cerf. (2000).

Neofunctionalism and Civil Society. (Neo kino shugi to shimin shakai). Tokyo: Koseisha Koseikaku Co., Ltd., 1996.

Soziale Dfferenzierung und Kultureller Wandel Studien zur Neofunktionalistischen Gesellschafstheorie. Frankfort: Campus Verlag, 1993.

Teoria Sociologia E Mutamento Sociales. Un Analisi Multidemensionale della Modernita. Rome: Franco Angeli, 1990.

Edited Books/Journal Issues:

The Oxford Handbook of Cultural Sociology (With Philip Smith and Ronald Jacobs), Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.

Meaning and Method: The Cultural Approach to Sociology (with Isaac Reed), Paradigm Publishers, forthcoming

Culture, Society, and Democracy (with Isaac Reed). Paradigm Publishers, 2007.

Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics and Ritual (with Bernhard Giesen and Jason Mast). Cambridge University Press, 2006.

The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim (with Philip Smith). Cambridge University Press, 2005.

Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology (with Gary Marx and Christine Williams), University of California Press, 2004.

Mainstream and Critical Theory: Classical, Modern, and Contemporary Theoretical and Research Programs (8 volumes). Sage Publications, 2001.

Symposium: New Directions in Critical Theory (with Kenneth Thompson and Roger Friedland), International Sociology, 2001.

The New Social Theory: Contemporary Debates (with Steven Seidman). Routledge. 2001.
(2nd edition 2007)

State and Civil Society: Social Theory and Methodology (in Chinese, with Deng Zheng Lai), Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press. 2000.

Demos/Ethnos. Special Issue of International Sociology (with Mabel Berezin) 1999.

The Public Representation of Culture and History. Special Issue of American Behavioral Scientist, 42(6): 1999 (with Neil Smelser).

Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society (with Neil Smelser), Princeton University, 1999.

Real Civil Societies: Dilemmas of Institutionalization. Sage, 1998.

The Classic Tradition in Sociological Theory (8 Volumes with Raymond Boudon and M. Cherkaoui), Sage, 1997.

Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates (with Steven Seidman). Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Romanian translation: Institutul European, 2001.

Chinese translation: New Century. Beijing. 1998.

Rethinking Progress: Movements. Forces and Ideas at the End of the Twentieth Century (with Piotr Sztompka). Unwin Hyman, 1990.

Differentiation Theory and Social Change: Historical and Comparative Perspective (with Paul Colomy). Columbia University Press, 1990.

Durkheimian Sociology. Cultural Studies. Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Chinese translation. Liaoning Education Press. 2001.

The Micro Macro Link (with Bernhard Giesen, Richard Munch and Neil Smelser). University of California Press, 1987.

Spanish translation: El vínculo micro macro. Universidad de Guadalajara Dirección de Publicaciones, 1994.

Japanese translation: Shinsensha, forthcoming.

Neofunctionalism. Sage, 1985.

Articles:

“Cultural Sociology,” (with Isaac Reed) in Turner, Bryan, ed., The New Blackwell Companion to Social Theory, Wiley Blackwell. 2009

“Postscript: On the Global and Local Representations of the Holocaust Tragedy,” in Jeffrey Alexander, ed., Remembering the Holocaust: A Debate, Oxford University Press. Forthcoming.

“Social Subjectivity: Psychotherapy as Central Institution,” Thesis Eleven. Forthcoming

“Postcolonialism, Trauma, and Civil Society: A New Understanding,” in Sokratis Koniordos, et al eds. Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society, Routledge, forthcoming.

“Iconic Consciousness: The Material Feeling of Meaning,” Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 26: 782-794. 2008.

“Social Science as Reading and Performance: A Cultural-Sociological Understanding of Epistemology,” (with Isaac Reed). European Journal of Sociology, (Forthcoming).

“Public Intellectuals and Civil Society,” in Andreas Hess, ed., Intellectuals and their Publics: Perspectives from the Social Sciences, Ashgate, forthcoming

“Iconic Experience in Art and Life: Beginning with Giacometti’s 'Standing Woman' "in Theory, Culture and Society, 25 (5):1-19. 2008.

Partially reprinted in: Anna Hammond, ed., Object Lessons, Yale University Art Gallery, 2007.

Italian translation (partial): in Studi Culturali, 2/2004: 253-266.

“Civil Sphere, State, And Citizenship: Replying To Turner and the Fear of Enclavement”, Citizenship Studies, 12: (2):185-194. 2008

“Clifford Geertz and the Strong Program: The Human Sciences and Cultural Sociology,” Cultural Sociology, 2 (2):157-168. 2008

“Power and Performance: The War on Terror between the Sacred and the Profane,” RSCAS Distinguished Lectures Working Paper Series, 2007/01, European University Institute, 2007.

Korean translation: in Culture and Society, Scholarly journal of the Korean Association for Sociology of Culture (KASC). Forthcoming, November 2008.

“Intellectual Origins of the Strong Program,” Preface to the Korean Edition of Alexander, The Meanings of Social Life, 2008

“Introduction” (with Steven Seidman), in Seidman and Alexander, eds., The New Social Theory Reader, Routledge, 2nd edition, Routledge, 2008.

“Keeping Faith with The Civil Sphere, and My Critics,” Perspectives, October 2007: 10-15.

“On the Interpretation of The Civil Sphere: Understanding and Contention in Contemporary Social Science,” Sociological Quarterly 48 (Fall 2007): 641-659.

“Imagining Durkheim: The Cambridge Companion and Two Recent Review Essays” (with Philip Smith), Durkheimian Studies, Volume 13, Number 1, November 2007.

“Forward,” in T. Parsons, American Society: A Theory of the Societal Community, edited by Giuseppe Sciortino. Paradigm Publishers. 2007

“The Meaningful Construction of Inequality and the Struggles Against It: A ‘Strong Program’ Approach to How Social Boundaries Change.” Cultural Sociology, Volume 1 (1):23-30. 2007

“Globalization as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere,” pp. 371-382 in Frontiers Of Globalization Research: Theoretical And Methodological Approaches, Edited by Ino Rossi. Springer, 2007.

Partially reprinted as “Global Civil Society.” Theory, Culture and Society 23 (Problematizing Global Knowledge, special issue) (2-3):521-524, May, 2006.

“Remembrance of Things Past: Cultural Trauma, the “Nanking Massacre” and Chinese Identity,” Peking-Yale University Conference Publication on Tradition & Modernity: Comparative Perspectives, Beijing: Peking University Press, 2007.

Polish translation: “Trauma Kulturowa I Walka o Chinska Tozsamosc” in Stawania sie spoleczenstwa. Szkice ofiarowane Piotrowi Stompce z okazji 40-lecia pracy naukowej, 2006.

“Tocqueville’s Two Forms of Association: Interpreting Tocqueville and Debates over Civil Society Today.” The Tocqueville Review, Vol. XXVII No. 2:175-190, 2006.

“Performance and Counter-Power (2): The Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Sphere.” Culture, Volume 20, No. 3 (Spring 2006)

“Performance and Counter-Power (1): The Civil Rights Movement and the Civil Sphere.” Culture, Volume 20, No. 2 (Winter 2006)

“Performance and Power.” Culture, Volume 20, #1 (Autumn 2005).

Translation: “Performance et pouvoir” pp. 301-310 in Michael Wieviorka, ed. Les Sciences Sociales en Mutation. Éditions Sciences Humaines, 2007.

“Culture” (with I. Reed) in B. Turner, ed., The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

“Why Cultural Sociology is not ‘Idealist’: A Reply to McClennan,” Theory, Culture & Society, Vol. 22(6): 19–29, 2005.

Croatian Translation: in Discrepancy, Vol. 6, (10) 2005: 99-110.

“Introduction: Symbolic Action in Theory and Practice: The Cultural Pragmatics of Symbolic Action” (with Jason Mast), in J. Alexander, B. Giesen, and J. Mast, eds., Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics and Ritual. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

“Central Problems of Cultural Sociology: A Reply to My (Friendly) Critics.” Culture, Winter, 2005.

“Introduction: The New Durkheim” (with P. Smith), pp. 1-37, in J. Alexander and P. Smith, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. Cambridge University Press, 2005.

“The Sixties and Me: From Cultural Revolution to Cultural Theory,” pp. 37-47, in A. Sica and S. Turner, eds., The Disobedient Generation. University of Chicago Press, 2005.

“The Dark Side of Modernity: Tension Relief, Splitting, and Grace,” pp. 171-182, in E. Ben-Rafael and Y. Sternberg, eds., Comparing Modernities: Pluralism Versus Homogenity. Essays in Homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt. Leiden: Brill. 2005.

“Contradictions in the Societal Community: The Promise and Disappointments of Parsons’ Concept,” pp. 93-110 in R. Fox, V. Lidz, and H. Bershady, eds., After Parsons: A Theory of Social Action for the Twenty-First Century. Russell Sage Foundation, 2005.

“Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy.” Sociological Theory 22 (4) 2004: 527-573.

Best Article Prize, Theory Section, American Sociological Association

Reprinted in: J. Alexander, B. Giesen and J. Mast, eds., Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics and Ritual. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Spanish translation: in Revista Colombiana de Sociología, 24. 2005:1-21.

“Rethinking Strangeness,” Thesis Eleven 79, November 2004: 87-104

“From the Depths of Despair: Performance and Counter-Performance on September 11th.” Sociological Theory 22 (1) 2004: 88-105.

Reprinted in: J. Alexander, B. Giesen and J. Mast, eds., Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics and Ritual. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Korean translation: in Choi, Jongryul, ed. Durkheimian Cultural Sociology: Theory and Methodology. Ehaksa, 2007.

“Smelser, Neil” (with G. Marx). Encyclopedia of Social Theory, G. Ritzer, ed., vol. II. Sage Publications, 2004: 708-712.

“Mastering Ambivalence: Neil Smelser as a Sociologist of Synthesis” (with M. Marx and C. Williams), pp. 1-16 in Alexander et al., eds., Self, Social Structure, and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology, University of California Press, 2004.

“Introduction: The Meanings of (Social) Life: On the Origins of a Cultural Sociology,” pp. 3-10 in Alexander, The Meanings of Social Life: A Cultural Sociology. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003.

“Towards a New, Macrosociological Theory of Performance.” Theory, Spring 2003: 3-5.

Reprinted: Yale Journal of Sociology 3 (Fall 2003): 45-48.

“Discourse and Civil Repair: DisClosure interviews with Jeffrey C. Alexander.” DisClosure 2003 (12): 33-48.

“Interview: Jeffrey Alexander.” Nexus: Newsletter of the Australian Sociological Association: 15 (1), Feb., 2003: 5-6.

“On the Social Construction of Moral Universals: The ‘Holocaust’ from Mass Murder to Trauma Drama.” European Journal of Social Theory 5 (1) 2002: 5-86.

Co-Winner, Best Article Prize, Culture Section of the American Sociological Assn.

Reprinted in: R. Friedland and J. Mohr, eds., The Cultural Turn. Cambridge University Press, pp. 196-224, (reduced).

Reprinted in: Alexander et al., Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. University of California Press, 2004, pp. 196-263.

“Towards a Theory of Cultural Trauma,” pp. 1-30 in Alexander et al., Cultural Trauma and Collective Identity. University of California Press, 2004.

“‘Mythic Gestures’: Robert N. Bellah and Cultural Sociology” (with Steven J. Sherwood), pp. 1-14 in Richard Madsen et al, eds., Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, and Self. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

“The Strong Program in Cultural Theory: Elements of a Structural Hermeneutics,” (with Phil Smith), pp. 135-150 in J. Turner, ed., Handbook of Sociological Theory. New York: Kluwer Academic, 2001.

Croatian Translation: in Discrepancy, Vol. 6, (10): 67-83.

“Parsons as a Republican Critic of Industrial Society: A New Understanding of the Early Writings,” pp. 15-24 in G. Pollini and G. Scirotino, eds., Parsons’ The Structure of Social Action and Contemporary Debates. Milan: Franco Angeli, 2001.

“The Long and Winding Road: Civil Repair of Intimate Injustice.” Sociological Theory 19(3) 2001: 371-400.

“Theorizing the ‘Modes of Incorporation’: Assimilation, Hyphenation, and Multiculturalism as Varieties of Civil Participation." Sociological Theory 19(3) 2001: 237-249.

Reprinted in P. Kivisto, ed., Incorporating Diversity: Rethinking Assimilation in a Multicultural Age. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2005.

“Robust Utopias and Civil Repairs.” International Journal of Sociology 16 (4) 2001: 579-591.

Russian translation: Sociological Studies 10 (222) 2002: 3-11.

“Towards a Sociology of Evil: Getting beyond Modernist Common Sense about the Alternative to ‘the Good’,” pp. 153-172 in M.P. Lara, ed., Rethinking Evil: Contemporary Perspectives. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2001.

“Editor’s Introduction: Canons, Discourses, and Research Programs: Plurality, Progress and Competition in Classical, Modern and Contemporary Sociology,” pp. i-xlvii in Alexander, ed., Mainstream and Critical Social Theory: Classical, Modern and Contemporary, London: Sage, 2001.

“Contradictions: The Uncivilizing Pressures of Space, Time, and Function,” Soundings 16 (Autumn 2000): 96-112.

Portuguese translation: “Aspectos nao-civis da sociedade: espaco, tempo e funcao,” Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais. V. 33, n. 12. February, 1997: 169 179.

“Theorizing the Good Society: Hermeneutic, Normative, and Empirical Discourses,” Canadian Journal of Sociology 25 (3) 2000: 271-310.

Italian Translation: "La societa civile democratica: istituzioni e valori," in P. Donati, ed., L’etica civile alla fine del XX secolo MiIano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1997: 107 153.

'This Worldly Mysticism: Inner Peace and World Transformation in the Work and Life of Charles 'Skip' Alexander." Journal of Adult Development 7 (4) 2000: 267-272.

“Introduction: The Public Representation of Culture and History” (with N. Smelser). American Behavioral Scientist 42 (6) 1999: 913-921.

"Introduction. The Ideological Discourse of Cultural Discontent: Paradoxes, Realities, and Alternative Ways of Thinking," with N.J. Smelser, pp. 3 18 in N.J. Smelser and J.C. Alexander, eds., Diversity and Its Discontents: Cultural Conflict and Common Ground in Contemporary American Society. Princeton University Press.

"Why we might all be able to live together: An Imminent Critique of Alain Touraine’s Pourrons nous vivre ensemble?" Thesis Eleven. August 1999.

"Civil Society between Difference and Solidarity: Rethinking Integration in the Fragmented Civil Society." Theoria: Journal of Social and Political Theory. (December 1998) No. 92: 1-14.

Spanish translation: “Las sociedades civiles entre la diferencia y la solidaridad: reflexiones sobre la integracion en la fragmentada esfera publica,” pp. 129-43 in J-F Prod’homme, ed., Democratas, liberales, y republicanos, Centro de estudios sociologicos, 2000.

Cultural Structures, Social Action, and the Discourses of American Civil Society: A Reply to Battani, Hall, and Powers," with Philip Smith. Theory and Society 28: 455-461, 1999.

"Bush, Hussein and the Cultural Preparation for War: Toward a More Symbolic Theory of Political Legitimation," Epoche: Journal for the Study of Religions. V. 2 1, Summer 1997.

"Cultural Sociology or Sociology of Culture: Towards a Strong Program for Sociology's Second Wind," with Philip Smith. Sociologie et Societes 30 (1) 1998: 107 116.

"Sociology, Theories of," Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge, 1998. Vol. 10: 2 8.

"Mass Communication, Ritual, and Civil Society" (with Ron Jacobs), in T. Leibes and J. Curran, eds., Media, Ritual and Identity. Routledge, 1998: 23 41.

"Postface" for Frederic Vandenberghe, Une Histoire Critique de la Sociologie Allemande. Paris: La Decouverte/MAUSS, 1997 98: 341 345.

"Civil Society I, II, III: Constructing an Empirical Concept from Normative Controversies and Historical Transformations," in Alexander, ed., Real Civil Societies. London: Sage Publications, 1997: 1 20.

Reprinted as “The Past, Present, and Future of Civil Society,” pp. 15-28 in A. Bron, M. Schemmann, eds., Civil Society, Citizenship, and Learning, Munster: Lit Verlag, 2001.

Reprinted in A. Hess, ed., American Social and Political Thought: A Reader. Edinburgh University Press 2002: 396-400.

Spanish Translation: “Sociedad Civil,” pp. 699-704 in L. B. Olamendi et al., eds, Lexico de la Politica, Mexico: Fondo de Cultura Economica, 2000.

"From Functionalism to Neofunctionalism: Creating a Position in the Field of Social Theory," J.C. Alexander, Neofunctionalism and After. Basil Blackwell, 1997: 3 24.

"After Neofunctionalism: Action, Culture, and Civil Society," J. C. Alexander, Neofunctionalism and After. Basil Blackwell, 1997: 210 233.

Reprinted: Social Theory: Roots and Branches, ed. by Peter Kivisto, New York, Oxford University Press, 2008: 206-213.

Russian Translation: Modern Western Sociology, G.N.Sokolova, L.G.Titarenko (eds.) Minsk, Tesey, 2008: 106-118.

Russian Translation: Contemporary Sociology, S.I. Grigoryev and J. Coenen Huther, (eds.) 1998. Reprinted: (full): Kivisto, Peter. Social theory: Roots and Branches. Roxbury Publishing Company; 2000: 192-199.

"General Introduction: The Paradoxical Relations of Self and Society in American Sociological Thought, in Alexander, J.C., R. Boudon and M. Cherkaoui (eds.), The Classic Tradition in Sociological Theory. London: Sage Publications, 1997: i xv.

"Les régles secrètes de Durkheim," E.H. Cuin, ed., Durkheim d’un siecle a l’autre: Lectures actuelles des regles de la methode sociologique. Paris: PUF, 1997: 191 202. (English: "Durkheim's Secret Rules').

"Critical Reflections on 'Reflexive Modernization" (Review essay), Theory, Culture and Society 13 (4) 1996: 133 138.

"Honneth’s New Critical Theory of Recognition" (with M. P. Lara), New Left Review. N. 220. Sept. Oct., 1996: 126 137.

"Durkheim's Religious Revival" (with P. Smith), American Journal of Sociology 102 (2) 1996: 585 592.

“Social Science and Salvation: Risk Society as Mythical Discourse" (with P. Smith), Zeitschrift fur Soziologie. Aug., 1996: 251 262.

"Collective Action, Culture and Civil Society: Secularizing, Updating, Inverting, Revising and Displacing the Classical Model of Social Movements," M. Diani and J. Clarke, eds., Alain Touraine. Falmer Press, 1996: 205 234.

Portuguese translation: Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Sociais. V. 13, n. 37. 1998: 5 31.

"On Choosing One's Intellectual Predecessors: The Reductionism of Camic's Treatment of Parsons and the Institutionalists" (with G. Sciortino), Sociological Theory 14 (2) 1996: 154 172.

"Cultural Sociology or Sociology of Culture?" Culture 10 (3 4) 1996: 1 5.

"The Reality of Reduction: The Failed Synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu," in J. C. Alexander, Fin de Sìecle Social Theory. Verso, 1995: 128 217.

Italian translation: “La realita della riduzione: la sintesis falliita di Perre Bourdieu.”
Quaderni de Teoria Sociale 1 (2001): 143-196.

French translation (partial): La reduction: Critique de Bourdieu. Cerf: 2001

'Watergate," S.M. Lipset, ed., Encyclopedia of Democracy. Quarterly Press and Routledge, 1995: 1367¬-1369.

"The Paradoxes of Civil Society," Social Sciences Research Centre. Occasional Paper 16, University of Hong Kong, 1994: 3 21.

Spanish translation: Revista Internacional de Filosofia Politica 4, Nov., 1994: 73 89.

Italian translation: Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia 36 (3) 1995: 319 339.

Ukranian translation: Sociology: Theory, Methods, Marketing, v. 1, Jan-March 199: 27-41.

Reprinted: International Sociology. V. 12, n. 2. 1997: 115 133.

"Interview with Professor Jeffrey Alexander," Sociology Newsletter no.3. Hong Kong University, 1994.

"How 'National' is Social Theory? Critical Notes on Some Worrying Trends in the Recent Theorizing of Richard Munch," Theory: Newsletter of the Theory Section of the International Sociological Association. Autumn, 1994: 2 8.

Reprinted: Revue suisse de sociologie 21 (3) 1995: 541 546.

Translation: Sociologia 24 (2/3) 1995:120 138.

"Modern, Ante, Post and Neo: How Intellectuals Have Tried to Understand the 'Crisis of our Time."' Zeitschrift fur Soziologie 23 (3) 1994: 165 197.

Reprint: New Left Review. N. 2 10. March/April, 1995: 63 102.

"Funzionalismo E Neofanzionalismo," with P. Colomy, Enciclopedia delle Scienze Sociali. 4, 1994: 199¬-219.

"Religio," C. Mongardini and M. Ruini, eds., Religio: Ruolo del Sacro, Coesione Sociale e Nuove Forme di Soidarieta nella Societa Contemporanea. Bulzoni Editore, 1994: 15 24

"The Promise of a Cultural Sociology: Technological Discourse and the Sacred and
Profane Information Machine," N. Smelser and K Munch, eds., Theory of Culture. University of California Press, 1993: 293 323.

French translations: "The Sacred and Profane Information Machine: Discourse about the Computer as Ideology," Archives de Sciences Sociales des Religions 69 (1) 1990: 161 171 (partial) and Hermes 8 9 (1990): 297 320 (full)

Spanish translation: Revista Mexicana de Sociologia. N. 2, April-June 1991: 283-309.

German translation: D. Boegenhold, ed., Moderne Americanische Soziologie. Stuttgart: Lucius and Lucius, 2000: 149-176.

“The Return to Civil Society," Contemporary Sociology. V. 22, n. 6. 1993: 797 803. (review essay of J. Cohen and A. Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory).

"Reduction and Deceit in Social Theory," H. Martins, ed., Knowledge and Passion: Essays in Honour of John Rex. I.B. Tauris, 1993: 119 136.

"The Discourse of American Civil Society: A New Proposal for Cultural Studies" (with P. Smith), Theory and Society 22 (2) 1993: 151 207.

Reprinted in L. Spillman, ed., Cultural Sociology. Blackwell, 2002: 233-244/

Chinese translation: in State and Civil Society: Social Theory and Methodology (J. Alexander and Deng Z.L., eds). Beining: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 1999.

German translation: Berlin Journal fur Soziologie. V. 4, n. 2. 1994: 157 179.

"The British are Coming . . . Again! The Hidden Agenda of 'Cultural Studies"' (with S. Sherwood and P. Smith), Contemporary Sociology. V. 22, n. 3. 1993: 370 375.

"'Formal Sociology' is not Multidimensional: Breaking the 'Code' in Parsons' Fragment on Simmel," Teoria Sociologica 1 (1) 1993: 101 114.

"Risking Enchantment: Theory and Methodology in Cultural Analysis" (with S. Sherwood and P. Smith), Culture 8 (1) 1993: 10¬-14.

"More Notes on the Problem of Agency: A Reply," Revue suisse de sociologie. 19 (1993): 501-506.

"Citizen and Enemy as Symbolic Classification: On the Polarizing Discourse of Civil Society," M. Fournier and M. Lamont, eds., Cultivating Differences: Symbolic Boundaries and the Making of Inequality. Chicago University Press, 1992: 289 308.

Italian translations: "Morale e Repressione," Mondoperai. 12. Rome, Dec., 1990: 127 130 (partial) and "The Deceptiveness of Morality," C. Mongardini, ed., Due Dimensioni Delta Societa L'Utile e la Morale. Bulzoni Editore, 1991: 41 50 (partial).

Chinese translation: in State and Civil Society: A Social Theory and Methodology, J. Alexander and Deng Zheng Lai, eds., Beijing: Central Compilation and Translation Press, 1999).

“Durkheim’s Problem and Differentiation Theory Today,” in H. Haferkarnp and N. Smelser, eds., Social Change and Modernity. University of California Press, 1992: 179 204.

"Sociological Theory and the Claim to Reason: Why the End is not in Sight. A Reply to Steven Seidman’s 'The End of Sociological Theory?"' Sociological Theory 10 (2) 1992: 147 153.

"The Fragility of Progress: An Interpretation of the Turn Toward Meaning in Eisenstadt’s Later Work" Acta Sociologica 35 (1992): 85-94.

"The Fallacy of the Scientistic Choice between Structures and Meanings: A Reply to Therborn," Theory 2 (1) 1992: 1 2.

"Traditions and Competition: Preface to a Postpositivist Approach to Knowledge Accumulation," with P. Colomy in G. Ritzer, ed., Metatheorizing. Sage, 1992: 27 52.

"General Theory in the Post positivist Mode: The'Epistemological Dilemma’ and the Search for Present Reason," in S. Seidman and D. Wagner (eds.), Postmodernism and Social Theory. Blackwell, 1992: 322 368.

Spanish translation: "Intelectuales Renacidos," Topodrilo V. 14. Mexico: Universidad Autonoma Metropolitan, Nov. Dec., 1990: 36 39. (Spanish).

Chinese translation: Social Science Abroad. 1990.

Reprinted (partial). Sociological Forum. 5 (4) 1990.

"Shaky Foundations: The Presuppositions and Internal Contradictions of James Coleman’s 'Foundations of Social Theory"' Theory and Society 21 (1992): 203 217.

"Some Remarks on 'Agency' in Recent Sociological Theory," Perspectives 15 (1) 1992: 14.

Reprinted: Revue suisse de sociologie. V. 18, n. 1, 1992: 7 11.

"Classicos contemporaneos en la teoria sociologica: Entrevista con Jeffrey C. Alexander," Gina Zabludovsky, Acta Sociologica 4 (2 3) 1991: 17 34.

"Sobre Theoretical Logic in Sociology: Objetivos Intelectuales y Contexto Historico y Biografico," Acta Sociologica 4 (2 3) 1991: 35-48.

German translation (revised): "Introduction," in Alexander, ed., Soziale Differenzierund und Kultureller Wandel Studien zur Neofunktionalistischen Gesellschafstheori. Frankfurt, Germany: Campus Verlag, 1993: 31-47.

"Must We Choose Between Criticism and Faith? Reflections on the Later Work of Bernard Barber," Sociological Theory 9 (1) 1991: 124 130.

"Understanding Social Science: Giving Up the Positivist Ghost, a Reply to Walter L. Wallace’s 'Standardizing Basic Sociological Concepts"' Perspective 14 (1) 1991: 1 4.

"Bringing Democracy Back In: Universalistic Solidarity and the Civil Sphere," C. Lemert, ed., Intellectuals and Politics: Social Theory in a Changing World. Sage, 1991: 157 176.

Spanish translation: in Modernizacion Economica, Democracia Politica y Democracia Social. Centro de Estudios Socilogicos, el Colegio de Mexico, 1993: 39 62.

'Neofunctionalism and Modem Society," H. Etzkowitz; and R. Glassman, eds., The Renaissance Of Sociological Theory: Classical and Contemporary. F.E. Peacock Publishers, 1991: 267 275.

"Structure, Value, Action: On Parsons" Prolegomena’." American Sociological Review. 55, n. 3. June, 1990: 339 345.

Reprinted: Peter Hamilton, ed., Talcott Parsons: Critical Assessments. Routledge, 1992: 52 61.

Italian translation: "Introduction," Talcott Parsons, Prolegomeni a una Theoria delle Istituzioni Sociali. Armando Mondadori, 1995.

'Neofunctionalism Today: Reconstructing a Theoretical Tradition," with P. Colomy, in G. Ritzer, ed. Frontiers of Sociological Theory. Columbia University Press, 1990: 33 67.

Spanish translation: Sociologica 7 (20) 1992:195 236.

Russian translation: Sociological Studies, Pekjiama. October, 1992: 112 120.

German translation: H. P. Muller and Steffen Sigmund, eds., Zeitgenossische amerikianische Soziologie (Modern American Sociology), Opladen: Leske/Budrich, 2000, pp. 135-146.

"Between Progress and Apocalypse: Social Theory and the Dream of Reason in the Twentieth Century," J. C. Alexander and P. Sztompka, eds., Rethinking Progress. Unwin Hyman Limited, 1990: 15 39.

Chinese translation: Social Sciences Abroad. 1990.

“Introduction. Differentiation Theory: Problems and Prospects,” J.C. Alexander and P. Colomy, eds., Differentiation Theory and Social Change. Columbia University Press, 1990: 1-13.

"Introduction: Understanding the 'Relative Autonomy' of Culture," J.C. Alexander and S. Seidman, eds., Culture and Society: Contemporary Debates. Cambridge University Press, 1990: 1 27.

German translation: Proto Soziologi (7) 1995: 35 54.

"Against Historicism For Theory: A Reply to Levine," Sociological Theory 7 (1)1989: 118-120.
"Durkheim's Problem and Differentiation Theory Today," Alexander, Action and Its Environments. University of California Press, 1988.

"Parsons' Structure in American Sociology," Sociological Theory 6 (1) 1988: 96 102.

French translation: L'Année sociologique 1989: 183 191.

Reprinted: Peter Hamilton, Talcott Parsons: Critical Assessments. V. 1. Routledge, 1992: 299 308.

"Durkheimian Sociology and Cultural Studies Today," in Alexander, ed., Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies. Cambridge University Press, 1988: 1 21.

"Culture and Political Crisis: Watergate and Durkheimian Sociology," Alexander, ed., Durkheimian Sociology: Cultural Studies. Cambridge University Press, 1988: 187 224.

Partially reprinted in M. Emirbayer, ed., Emile Durkheim: Sociologist of Modernity. London: Blackwell, 2003: 158-164.

"Culture and War: Deepening Multidimensionality: Reply to Collins," Gary Kreps, ed., Social Structure and Disaster. University of Delaware Press and Associated University Presses, 1988: 386-389.

"The Limits of Empirical Strategies: Reply to Kreps," Gary Krepps, ed., Social Structure and Disaster University of Delaware Press and Associated University Presses, 1988: 278 282.

“On the Centrality of the Classics," in A. Giddens and J. Turner, eds., Sociological Theory Today. Stanford and MacMillan, 1987: 11 57.

Spanish translation: In A. Giddens and J. Turner, La Teoria Social, hoy, Alianza Universidad, 1991: 22 80.

Reprinted (partial): C. Lemert, ed., Social Theory. The Multicultural and Classic Readings Westview Press, 1994: 557 563.

Reprinted (partial): S. P. Turner, ed., Social Theory and Sociology. The Classics and Beyond. Blackwell, 1996: 21 38.

"The Dialectic of Individuation and Domination: Weber's Rationalization Theory and Beyond," Sam Whimster and Scott Lash, eds., Max Weber and Rationality. Allen and Unwin, 1987: 185 206.

"Action and Its Environments," Alexander et al., eds., The Micro Macro Link. University of California Press, 1987: 289 318.

Italian translation: Andrea Borsari, ed., Talcott Parsons, Culture and Society. Bruno Mondadori, Editore.

"From Reduction to Linkage: The Long View of the Micro Macro Link," with Bernhard Giesen, in Alexander et al., eds., The Micro Macro Link. University of California Press, 1987: 1 44.

"The Social Requisites for Altruism and Voluntarism: Some Notes on What Makes a Sector Independent. Sociological Theory 5 (2) 1987: 165 171.

"The New Theoretical Movement," pp. 77-102 in N. J. Smelser, ed., Handbook of Sociology. Sage Publications, 1988.

Brazilian translation: Revista Brasilira de Ciencias Sociais 4 (2) 1987: 5 28 (partial)

Italian translation: Ouaderni di Sociologia 33 (9) 1987.

Spanish translation: Estudios. V. 6, n. 17. Mayo Agosto, 1988: 259 307.

Chinese translation: Foreign Social Sciences. August, 1990.

Ukrainian translation: Philosophical and Sociological Thought. Kiev, 1991 1992.

Russian Translation: Contemporary Sociology. S.I. Grigroyev and J. Coenen Huther, eds., 1997.

Reprinted in Social Theory: Roots and Branches. P. Kivisto, ed., Roxbury, 2003, pp. 200-207; J. Holmwood, ed., The International Library of Essays in the History of Social and Political Thought Series – Talcott Parsons. Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2006.

"Rethinking Durkheim's Intellectual Development, I: On 'Marxism’ and the Anxiety of Being Understood," International Sociology 1(1) 1986: 91 107.

"Rethinking Durkheim's Intellectual Development, II: Working Out a Religious Sociology," International Sociology l (2) 1986: 189 201.

Italian translation (Parts I and II): pp. 19-60 in M. Rosati and Ambrogio Santambrogio, eds, Durkheim Contributi per une relittura critica. Rome: Meltemi, 2002.

Reprinted (revised): “The Inner Development of Durkheim’s Sociological Theory: From Early Writings To Maturity,” in J. Alexander and P. Smith, eds., The Cambridge Companion to Durkheim. Cambridge University Press, 2005, pp. 136-159.

"The University and Morality: A Revised Approach to University Autonomy and Its Limits," Journal of Higher Education 57 (5) 1986: 463 476.

“Science, Sense, and Sensibility: George Homas's ‘Autobiography' and Lifework," Theory and Society. 1986: 443 463.

"Cultural Form and Political Substance: The Watergate Hearings as Media Ritual," in S. J. Ball Rokeach and M. G Cantor, eds., Media, Audience, and Social Structure. Sage, 1986: 243 251.

"The Individualist Dilemma in Phenomenology and Interactionism: Towards a Synthesis with the Classical Tradition," S. N. Eisenstadt and H. J. Helle, eds., Perspectives on Sociological Theory. 1985: 25 57.

"Max Weber on Church and Sect in North America: An Alternative Path Toward Rationalization," with C. Loader, Sociological Theory 3 (1) 1985: 1 6.

"Towards Neofunctionalism: Eisenstadt’s Change Theory and Symbolic Interaction," with P. Colomy, Sociological Theory 3 (2) 1985: 11 23.

Reprinted: P. Colomy, ed., Neofunctionalist Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing Company, 1990: 5-18.

German Translation: Hans-Peter Miller and Steffen Sigmand. eds., Zeitgenossische amerkanische Sozilogie Oplanden: Leske & Badrich, 1999.

"Habermas' New Critical Theory: Its Promise and Problems," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 91, No. 2 (Sep., 1985), pp. 400-424.

German translation: A. Honneth and H. Joas, eds., Beitrage zur Theorie der Kommunikativen Handelns von Jurgen Habermas. Suhrkamp, 1986: 73 209.

Spanish translation: Sociologica 3 (7/8) 1988:157 186.

Reprinted: A. Honneth and H. Joas, eds., Communicative Action: Essays on Jurgen Habermas's Theory of Communication in Action. Polity Press, 1991.

"Neofunctionalism: An Introduction," in Alexander, ed., Neofunctionalism. Sage, 1985: 7 20.

"'Institutionalization' and 'Collective Behavior: Points of Contact Between Eisenstadt’s Functionalism and Symbolic Interaction," with P. Colomy, in E. Cohen et al, eds., Social Dynamics: Essays in Honor of S.N. Eisenstadt. 1984: 337 345.

"Three Models of Culture and Society Relations: Toward an Analysis Of Watergate," Sociological Theory 3 (1984): 290 314.

"Social Structural Analysis: Some Notes on its History and Prospects," Sociological Quarterly 25 (1) 1984: 5 26.

"Positivism," A. and J. Keuper, eds., The Social Science Encyclopedia. 1984: 631 633.

"The Parsons' Revival in Germany," Sociological Theory 2 (1984): 290 314.

Bulgarian translation: Sociological Problems. V. 3, 1983: 29 40.

"Kuhn’s Unsuccessful Revisionism: A Rejoinder to Selby," Canadian Journal of Sociology V.7.1982: 66¬-71.

"Revolution, Reaction, and Reform: The Change Theory of Parsons' Middle Period," Sociological Inquiry V. 52. 1982: 267 280.

Reprinted: P. Colomy, ed., Functionalist Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1990: 237 250.

Reprinted: P. Hamilton, ed., Talcott Parsons: Critical Assessments. Routledge, V. 3, 1992: 300 313.

"Max Weber, la théorie de la rationalisation et le Marxism," Socilogie et Sociétés 14 (2) 1982: 33 43.

German translation: S. Bockler and J. Weiss, eds., Marx oder Weber? Zur Aktualisierung einer Kontroverse. Westdeutscher Verlag, 1987.

"The Mass News Media in Systemic, Historical and Comparative Perspective," E. Katz and T. Szecsko, eds., Mass Media and Social Change. Sage, 1981: 17 51.

"Looking for Theory: 'Facts' and 'Values' as the Intellectual Legacy of the 1970's," Theory and Society 10 (1981): 279 292.

"Core Solidarity, Ethnic Outgroup, and Social Differentiation: A Multidimensional Model of Inclusion in Modern Societies," J. Dofny and A. Akiwowo, eds., National and Ethnic Movements. Sage, 1980: 5 28.

"Paradigm Revision and Parsonianism,"' Canadian Journal of Sociology. 1979: 1 24.

"Formal and Substantive Voluntarism in the Work of Talcott Parsons: A Theoretical and Ideological Reinterpretation," American Sociological Review. V. 43, 1978: 177 198.

Reprinted: Indian Journal of Social Research. V. 18, 1978: 1 30.

Reprinted: P. Colorny, ed., Neofunctionalist Sociology. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited, 1990: 18-37.

Reprinted: P. Hamilton, ed., Talcott Parsons: Critical Assessments. Routledge, 1992: 319 346.

Reviews:

"Robert Wuthnow, Meaning and Moral Order: Explorations in Cultural Analysis," Journal of Ritual Studies. February 2, 1988: 263 267.

"Francois Bourricaud, L’ndividualisme Institutionnel," Contemporary Sociology. V. 10. 1981: 500-505.

"Leo Rangell, The Mind of Watergate," The New Republic. March 29, 1980: 38 39.

"Johan Goudsblom, Sociology in the Balance," American Journal of Sociology. V. 85. 1980: 1259-1262.

"S.N. Eisenstadt and M. Curelaru, The Form of Sociology: Paradigms and Crises," Contemporary Sociology V.6, 1977: 658 661.

"T.B. Bottomore, Sociology and Social Criticism" American Journal of Sociology V. 81. 1976: 1120 1123.