Civil Sphere Theory comes of age! Read about what theorists of Jeffrey Alexander's concept of the civil sphere have been up to

Written By Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

Check out the new special issue: Civil Sphere Theory in Cultural Sociology.

From Author to Network: The Coming of Age of Civil Sphere Theory
Peter Kivisto and Giuseppe Sciortino

Presidential versus Civil Power: Public Opinion, Second-Wave Feminism, and Party Politics in the USA
Willa Sachs and Jeffrey C Alexander

Struggles for Horizontal Identification: Muslims, Jews, and the Civil Sphere in Germany
Elisabeth Becker

The Civil Sphere and Social Class
Celso M. Villegas

Performative Feelings for Others: The Civil Repair of Organised Competitive Sports
Trygve B Broch

Interstitial Institutions
Liv Egholm

Encountering the Civil Sphere Through Cinema: The Cinematic Gap as a Pathway to Civil Evaluation and Repair
Jessie Dong

‘Our (Civil) Way of Life’: The Folkloric Civil Sphere
Hizky Shoham

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky

Bernadette Nadya Jaworsky is associate professor of sociology at Masaryk University, Brno (Czech Republic), and Faculty Fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology. She is a cultural sociologist in the tradition of the Strong Program, who focuses on the meaning-making process in her research on international migration. She received her B.A. from Wellesley College and her M.A., M.Phil., and PhD from Yale University. Recent books include The Courage for Civil Repair: Narrating the Righteous in International Migration (with Carlo Tognato and Jeffrey C. Alexander, eds., Palgrave, 2020) and Historicizing Roma in Central Europe: Between Critical Whiteness and Epistemic Injustice (with Victoria Shmidt, Routledge 2021), Besides civil sphere theory, her current research focuses on in-depth cultural sociological analysis and reconstruction of public issues such as perceptions of migration, and the cultural sociology of conspiracy theories.

https://www.cstnetwork.org/jaworsky-bio
Previous

New course The civil sphere: theory, methodology and case studies, taught by Arteaga Botello Nelson
Next

Registration for the Civil Sphere Theory Conference 2023 is now OPEN!