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Jeffrey Alexander
May 20, 2025
Working towards Meaning Together: Jeffrey Alexander’s Legacy for Sociology Photo Gallery In October 2024 The Yale Center for Cultural Sociology hosted the conference, “...
Cover: Philosophy and Society
May 13, 2025
The special issue of Philosophy and Society (36:1, 2025), Resilience and/or Vulnerability of the Civil Sphere, edited by  CCS Faculty Fellow Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky, CCS...
Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup
May 9, 2025
Johan Gøtzsche-Astrup recently published his article, Toward a Sociology of Democratic Truth-Telling in the journal Sociological Theory. Johan presented this paper in its...