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Durkheim and AfterThe Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020 cover
July 15, 2020
CCS Director Philip Smith’s new book, Durkheim and After: The Durkheimian Tradition, 1893-2020 (Polity Press) is available now!   “In this book, Philip Smith examines not...
Jeffrey Alexander
June 11, 2020
In Conversation ~ Yale’s Jeffrey Alexander on how today’s crises might shape tomorrow “In terms of the staging of the national corona-drama, it’s fascinating, if also...
May 27, 2020
CCS Director Jeffrey Alexander presented his work on “The Performativity of Objects” in front of over two-hundred participants worldwide in a zoom lecture hosted by our...
Isaac Reed
May 20, 2020
CCS Faculty Fellow Isaac Reed’s new book, Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King’s Two Bodies, is now available from University...
Philip Smith
May 15, 2020
CCS Director Philip Smith has been awarded the Fellowship of the University of Bayreuth Centre of International Excellence “Alexander von Humboldt” for the project, “Wagner,...
Labels: Making Independent Music
May 7, 2020
The new book, Labels. Making Independent Music, by CCS Faculty Fellow & AJCS Associate Editor Ian Woodward , and Yale Sociology/CCS graduate and Faculty Fellow Dominik...
Jeffrey C. Alexander
May 5, 2020
Read Jeffrey Alexander’s  comments on the effects of collective/cultural trauma during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in the article COVID-19 Is Traumatizing All of Us...