The Sixties and Me: From Cultural Revolution to Cultural Theory

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Jeffrey C. Alexander

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[Los años sesenta y yo: de la revolución cultural a la teoría cultural]

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In this article, the author offers an approach to his personal and academic development during the 1960s and how they laid the foundations for his contributions in the field of sociology. Pointing out those years as a moment in which a tumultuous social conscience, strongly influenced by the New Left, broke with the static rationalization of modernity, the author analyzes his radicalization in Marxism during his student years at Harvard and his eventual distancing from it. He also explores how the Vietman war and specific events of the time shaped an entire generation, through pointing to the possible existence of alternative social orders.

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En este artículo el autor ofrece un acercamiento a lo que fue su formación personal y académica durante la década de 1960 y cómo ellas sentaron las bases para sus contribuciones en el ámbito de la sociología. Señalando esos años como un momento en el que una tumultuosa conciencia social, fuertemente influida por la Nueva Izquierda, rompió con la racionalización estática de la modernidad, el autor analiza su radicalización en el marxismo durante su estancia en Harvard y su eventual distanciamiento del mismo. Asimismo, relata cómo la guerra de Vietnam y ciertos eventos específicos de la época moldearon a toda una generación, a través de apuntar hacia la posible existencia de órdenes sociales alternativos.

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Alexander, J. C. (2018). The Sixties and Me: From Cultural Revolution to Cultural Theory. Revista Mexicana De Ciencias Políticas Y Sociales, 63(234). https://doi.org/10.22201/fcpys.2448492xe.2018.234.65718
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Jeffrey C. Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University. E-mail: <jeffrey.alexander@yale.edu>. This article re-elaborates a previous version included in Sica and Turner (2005).

JEFFREY C. ALEXANDER is the Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology and co-director of the Center for Cultural Sociology (CCS) both at Yale University. He works in the areas of theory, culture, and politics. An exponent of the “strong program” in cultural sociology, he has investigated the cultural codes and narratives that inform diverse areas of social life. Some of his most recent books include: The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered: Democratic Culture, Professional Codes, Digital Future (ed. with Elizabeth Butler Breese and María Luengo, 2016); The Dark Side of Modernity (2013), and Trauma: A Social Theory (2012).

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