Jeffrey C. Alexander is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology at Yale University and a Co-Director of the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale.
Jeffrey Alexander's <i>The Drama of Social Life</i> reveals the ability this essential American social theorist to unpack and explain the dynamic dramas of large-scale change. Ranging from Tahir Square to the Black Lives Matter movement to the Obama White House, Alexander connects these world-shaking political events to their essential performative qualities, a core feature of modernity. There are some books that are designed to be read and others demand to be read and discussed. This collection of linked essays is the latter. <b> Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University