1. Jeffrey C. Alexander is one of the founders of cultural sociology. Among his publications are The Meanings of Social Life (Oxford University Press, 2003); Social Performance: Symbolic Action, Cultural Pragmatics, and Ritual (with B. Giesen and J. Mast; Cambridge University Press, 2006); The Civil Sphere (Oxford University Press, 2006); The Performance of Politics: Obama’s Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power (Oxford University Press, 2010); Performance and Power (Polity, 2011); Performative...