Jason L Mast
Biographic Data
| ID | 608947 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jason L Mast |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jason L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mast |
| SIGNATURE | MAST J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Zeppelin Universität gemeinnützige GmbH |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-5694-3734 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Societalized Politics in the German Civil Sphere
This article introduces a theory of societalized politics to investigate crisis events in the German civil sphere between 2015 and 2024, and to proffer an answer to the disputed question of the preconditions that facilitated the rapid rise of right-wing populism in the German context. Drawing on civil sphere and societalization theory, the article specifies the foundational cultural elements, or binary cultural codes (BCCs), upon which German pol…
Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics
Representationalism and cognitive culturalism
Cultural Pragmatics and the Structure and Flow of Democratic Politics
This article focuses on the performative dimensions, causes, and consequences of the struggle for political power in a fragmented and differentiated society committed to democracy and regulated by open and unabashed struggles for influence and public legitimation. It begins with a review of the literature in the fields of political sociology and political science that addresses how presidents conceive of and exercise their authority and legitimac…
Key Sociological Thinkers
Fragments, ruptures, and resurgent structures in the 2016 US presidential election – cultural sociology’s new pathways forward
Legitimacy Troubles and the Performance of Power in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Action in culture
Alexander, Jeffrey C. (1947–)
De l’essor de la performativité dans la politique-spectacle des démocraties de masse
Cet article traite de la montée de la performativité au sein de la politique-spectacle contemporaine. Il soutient qu’à mesure que les conditions sociales sont devenues fragmentées, les acteurs politiques ont été amenés à travailler de façon plus consciemment symbolique dans leur manière de communiquer et de convaincre leur public. Le concept de fragmentation ( defusion ) sera ici proposé. Celui-ci suggère que les acteurs politiques doivent désorm…
The foundations of innovation in modern societies
Cultural theory and its spaces for invention and innovation
The Modern Slaves
Key Sociological Thinkers
From the Publisher: This second edition of a popular and successful text offers an easily understood introduction to the theorists who have made a key contribution to the discipline of sociology. Its carefully formulated structure places the writers' passions in their social and intellectual context, summarizes the central issues dealt with in their work and sketches out the intellectual legacy they have left behind them. With four new chapters o…
Social Performance
Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. Performance has always been used by sociologists to understand the social world but this volume offers the first systematic analytical framework based on the performance metaphor to explain large-scale social an…
Legitimacy Troubles and the Performance of Power in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Action in culture
Societalized Politics in the German Civil Sphere
This article introduces a theory of societalized politics to investigate crisis events in the German civil sphere between 2015 and 2024, and to proffer an answer to the disputed question of the preconditions that facilitated the rapid rise of right-wing populism in the German context. Drawing on civil sphere and societalization theory, the article specifies the foundational cultural elements, or binary cultural codes (BCCs), upon which German pol…
Representationalism and cognitive culturalism
Social Performance
Jeffrey C. Alexander brings together new and leading contributors to make a powerful and coherently argued case for a new direction in cultural sociology, one that focuses on the intersection between performance, ritual and social action. Performance has always been used by sociologists to understand the social world but this volume offers the first systematic analytical framework based on the performance metaphor to explain large-scale social an…
Key Sociological Thinkers
From the Publisher: This second edition of a popular and successful text offers an easily understood introduction to the theorists who have made a key contribution to the discipline of sociology. Its carefully formulated structure places the writers' passions in their social and intellectual context, summarizes the central issues dealt with in their work and sketches out the intellectual legacy they have left behind them. With four new chapters o…
The Modern Slaves
De l’essor de la performativité dans la politique-spectacle des démocraties de masse
Cet article traite de la montée de la performativité au sein de la politique-spectacle contemporaine. Il soutient qu’à mesure que les conditions sociales sont devenues fragmentées, les acteurs politiques ont été amenés à travailler de façon plus consciemment symbolique dans leur manière de communiquer et de convaincre leur public. Le concept de fragmentation ( defusion ) sera ici proposé. Celui-ci suggère que les acteurs politiques doivent désorm…
The foundations of innovation in modern societies
Cultural theory and its spaces for invention and innovation
Alexander, Jeffrey C. (1947–)
Action in culture
Cultural Pragmatics and the Structure and Flow of Democratic Politics
This article focuses on the performative dimensions, causes, and consequences of the struggle for political power in a fragmented and differentiated society committed to democracy and regulated by open and unabashed struggles for influence and public legitimation. It begins with a review of the literature in the fields of political sociology and political science that addresses how presidents conceive of and exercise their authority and legitimac…
Key Sociological Thinkers
Fragments, ruptures, and resurgent structures in the 2016 US presidential election – cultural sociology’s new pathways forward
Legitimacy Troubles and the Performance of Power in the 2016 US Presidential Election
Politics of Meaning/Meaning of Politics
Representationalism and cognitive culturalism
Societalized Politics in the German Civil Sphere
This article introduces a theory of societalized politics to investigate crisis events in the German civil sphere between 2015 and 2024, and to proffer an answer to the disputed question of the preconditions that facilitated the rapid rise of right-wing populism in the German context. Drawing on civil sphere and societalization theory, the article specifies the foundational cultural elements, or binary cultural codes (BCCs), upon which German pol…
Sociology (13 works) · Law (11 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Social and Cultural Dynamics (7 works) · Social science (7 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (5 works) · Law (5 works)