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Does an Aesthetic Sociology Need a Theory of the Sign?
In: The American sociologist
ISSN: 1936-4784
Social theory and overinterpretation
In: Distinktion: scandinavian journal of social theory, Band 25, Heft 2, S. 183-207
ISSN: 2159-9149
The volatility of sacred signs: a response to Omar Lizardo
In: American journal of cultural sociology: AJCS, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 486-492
ISSN: 2049-7121
Order, Delegation, and Exclusion in the Negative Space of Political Modernity: A Reply to My Critics
In: Cultural sociology, Band 16, Heft 1, S. 133-142
ISSN: 1749-9763
Resisting the Revenge of the Romantic Hegel: a Reply to Werner Binder's Essay on Power in Modernity: Agency Relations and the Creative Destruction of the King's Two Bodies (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2020)
In: International journal of politics, culture and society, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 279-303
ISSN: 1573-3416
MAX WEBER, HANNAH ARENDT, AND THE QUESTION OF CIVIL POWER
In: Revista sociologia & antropologia, Band 9, Heft 1, S. 283-297
ISSN: 2238-3875
Abstract This article traces the concept of 'civil power' in Jeffrey Alexander's book The Civil Sphere. Doing so leads to an interpretation of the work as operating in the space between the different theories and definitions of power in the work of Max Weber and Hannah Arendt. Read in this way, The Civil Sphere becomes not only a Durkheimian argument about solidarity, but also an argument about the consequential ways in which acting together and not acting together constitute a space of variation in the degree to which power and violence can reined in, in so far as they are reigned out in the making of democratic sovereignty.
Performative State-Formation in the Early American Republic
In: American sociological review, Band 84, Heft 2, S. 334-367
ISSN: 1939-8271
How do proto-state organizations achieve an initial accumulation of power, such that they are in a position to grow (or shrink) as an organization, maintain their prestige (or lose it), and be viewed, by elite and populace, as something real and consequential that can be argued about, supported, or attacked? This article argues that state-formation has a performative dimension, in which the publicity of acts of violence, coercion, and negotiation made by agents of the proto-state, and the variable interpretation of these acts, are paramount to the state's success (or failure) and developing character. In the model developed here, agents of a would-be state act in response to emergencies, and when public interpretations of those actions assign their character and effectiveness to "the state," the state is performed into being. In particular, public performance solves, in part, agency problems obtaining between state rulers and their staff and elite allies. The formation of the federal government in the early American republic (1783 to 1801), whose success is insufficiently accounted for by extant theory, provides an opportunity to develop a model of the performative dimension of state-formation.
MAX WEBER, HANNAH ARENDT, AND THE QUESTION OF CIVIL POWER
Abstract This article traces the concept of 'civil power' in Jeffrey Alexander's book The Civil Sphere. Doing so leads to an interpretation of the work as operating in the space between the different theories and definitions of power in the work of Max Weber and Hannah Arendt. Read in this way, The Civil Sphere becomes not only a Durkheimian argument about solidarity, but also an argument about the consequential ways in which acting together and not acting together constitute a space of variation in the degree to which power and violence can reined in, in so far as they are reigned out in the making of democratic sovereignty.
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Chains of Power and Their Representation
In: Sociological theory: ST ; a journal of the American Sociological Association, Band 35, Heft 2, S. 87-117
ISSN: 1467-9558
Power is the ability to send and bind someone else to act on one's behalf, a relation that depends upon habits of interpretation. For persons attempting to complete projects, power involves communicating with, recruiting, and controlling subordinates and confronting those who are not in such a relationship of recruitment. This leads to a basic theoretical vocabulary about power players and their projects—a model of rector, actor, and other. As multiple relations of sending and binding become mutually implicated, chains of power—understood as simultaneously social and symbolic—emerge. The vocabulary presented for analyzing power is developed with reference to a series of instances, including the exploitation of labor and police violence. Finally, the paper analyzes a case study of an imperial encounter on the American frontier and examines therein a shift in how political power was represented, with implications for the sociology of transitions to modernity.
Alien Rule
In: Contemporary sociology, Band 45, Heft 4, S. 451-453
ISSN: 1939-8638
Hartmut Rosa's project for critical theory
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Band 133, Heft 1, S. 122-129
ISSN: 1461-7455, 0725-5136
Between Monopoly and Free Trade: The English East India Company 1600–1757. By Emily Erikson. Princeton, N.J: Princeton University Press, 2014. Pp. xvi+252. $39.95
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 121, Heft 3, S. 962-965
ISSN: 1537-5390
Counting, interpreting and their potential interrelation in the human sciences
In: American journal of cultural sociology: AJCS, Band 3, Heft 3, S. 353-364
ISSN: 2049-7121