The latest issue of AJCS is now available online and in print! AJCS Volume 9, issue 2, June 2021 Special issue on the Cultural Sociology of Reading Issue editors: María Angélica Thumala Olave & Jeffrey C. Alexander Managing Editor: Anne Marie Champagne 7 articles in this issue: 1. Exploring the sacrality of reading as a Read More
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NEW IN PRINT – AJCS Volume 9, Issue 1
The latest issue of AJCS is now available online and in print! American Journal of Cultural Sociology All Volumes & Issues ** Charles Taylor and Jeffrey C. Alexander discuss the legacy of Taylor’s A Secular Age! ** Volume 9, Issue 1, MARCH 2021 In this issue (7 articles) Editorial Charles Taylor and Jeffrey C. Alexander Read More
“Dripping Springs Garden” published in Spillway #28
Grateful to Spillway magazine for publishing this little poem of mine, and to Dripping Springs Garden, Arkansas, where new love and the idea of my daughter were first planted. To view the full list of contributors, visit Spillway Issue #28. Print copies are available for purchase at Small Distribution Press. ABOUT: Spillway magazine is an annual Read More
AJCS 8.3 – SPECIAL ISSUE ON COVID19
For all the real-world tragedy, COVID-19 will long be prized by social scientists as a “natural experiment.” Arriving as an unanticipated exogenous shock, it has offered a unique opportunity to see how components of the social system—public health, politics, and economics most obviously—might best respond. From the perspective of cultural sociology, the pivotal opportunity for Read More
NEW IN PRINT – AJCS Volume 8, Issue 2
The latest issue of AJCS is now available online and in print! American Journal of Cultural Sociology All Volumes & Issues Volume 8, Issue 2, August 2020 ISSN: 2049-7113 (Print) 2049-7121 (Online) In this issue (5 articles) Original Article The conquest of hearts: the central role of Ottoman nostalgia within contemporary Turkish populism by Yağmur Read More
NEW ISSUE ALERT – AJCS Volume 7, Issue 3
This issue marks the conclusion of my third year as AJCS Managing Editor. What a wonderful issue to end the year with! Stay tuned for Volume 8 news. We are in the midst of finalizing the first issue of 2020 now — a special edition on cutting edge debates in culture and cognition!
Lantern Tree: New Poem up at The Journal
Check out my newly published poem “Lantern Tree” in the summer 2019 issue of The Journal. You can see, read or listen to it here: http://thejournalmag.org/archives/17374. I wrote this poem in late November 2008 for David Owen Kent, aka Deva, shortly after his passing that same month. (I didn’t start submitting poems to lit mags Read More