Social performance: Symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual Social performance:
Symbolic action, cultural pragmatics, and ritual …

… every strong program for cultural analysis in the human … socially meaningful symbolic
action with ritual rather than conceptualizing ritual as one moment along a continuum of social …

… Lewinsky affair, or the drama and performances surrounding “Monicagate.” In Chapter 4, …
perspective cultural pragmatics in an effort explain the shift from ritual to social performance as …

… We can see differently how and why rituals were once so central to band and tribal
societies, and why the nature of symbolic action changed so remarkably with the rise of states, …

… cultural pragmatics melds the descriptive power of cultural specificity with the analytic method
of social … , and engage with cultural pragmatics and social performance in your own work. …

… the development of contemporary cultural-sociological thought -- … understanding symbolic
action as a kind of social performance. … performances assumed the “ritual” form articulated in …

… demonstrates how social performances, whether … of social performance, I suggest that
these elements have become “de-fused”as societies have become more complex. Performances …

… opening essay, "Cultural Pragmatics: Social Performance between Ritual and Strategy," …
new field of performance studies. Alexander stresses the necessity of all social organizations, …

… book elaborate a theory of cultural pragmatics. I separate out … to describe social relations
and forms of symbolic action that … Then, with this analytical model of social performance safely …

… , misuse cultural differences as a political weapon. In all the cases cited, ritual options boom…
within society in terms of the medium of symbolic action. For this allows the translation of the …