Rethinking Strangeness
From Structures in Space to Discourses in Civil Society
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4480993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jeffrey C Alexander (0000-0003-3600-8023, Department of Sociology at Yale University,, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 87-104 |
| Publication date | 2004-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Thesis Eleven (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0725-5136 • E-ISSN: 1461-7455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0725513604046959 |
| OpenAlex | W2164577923 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 18 |
| References cited | 21 |
Simmel develops his concept of the stranger in an overly structural and reductionist manner. Contrary to Simmel's suggestion, there is an indeterminate relation between structural exclusion and the attribution of strangeness. After showing that 'the stranger' must be rethought in a cultural-sociological way, this essay demonstrates an alternative approach. Articulating a 'discourse' that structures Western projections of strangeness, I explore its relation to colonialism, racial and class domination, and national conflict in modern Western history. This approach suggests an alternative, not only to Simmel but to Merton's and Coser's earlier structural-functional reconceptualization of stranger theory
Epistemology · Linguistics · Reductionism · Relation (database · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Strangeness · Cross-Cultural and Social Analysis · Philosophy · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices · Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
Modern Folk Devils
Número complet
Calamity or Catalyst
Stranger to you and Stranger to Myself? Theorizing Self-Estrangement
La cuestión del otro
Subjective Understandings of Positive Interactions among Strangers during Neighbourhood Walks
Strangers are Flocking Here”
Främlingen" bland svensk "Homo Academicus
Urban interaction ritual
Local newspaper reporting humanitarian migrants’ settlement experience in an Australian country town
States of ambivalence
The stranger the better
Georg Simmel, the Stranger and the Sociology of Knowledge
Strangers and Strangership
Friendship and Strangership
Conceptualising Social Types and Figures
Georg Simmel's Logic of the Future
The Uses of the Stranger
Wayward Puritans
Seducing the French
Streetwise
Symbol and Ritual in the New Spain
The Truly Disadvantaged
The Course of French History
Music and Social Movements
The Betweenness of Place
The Meanings of Social LifeA Cultural Sociology
Race, Media, and the Crisis of Civil Society
Risk and Culture
Ideological Conflict in American Political Culture
The Sociology of Georg Simmel
Making and Unmaking of Strangers
A Sociologist's Atypical Life
Codes and conflict
| Unique citing works | 18 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,9 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 18 |