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Clayton Fordahl
Researcher at University of Memphis
Publications - 6
Citations - 19
Clayton Fordahl is an academic researcher from University of Memphis. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social theory & Democracy. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 6 publications receiving 15 citations.
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Suffering and sovereignty: Martyrdom in the late modern West
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the recent martyrdom of the French Catholic priest Jacques Hamel in order to assess the possibilities of sacrificial commemoration in a world that is increasingly global.
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When the Gods Fall: Varieties of Post-Secularization in a Small, Secularized State
TL;DR: This paper used the exceptional-typical case of Iceland, a modern, Western, secularized country of comparatively small population size, to observe and conceptualize a variety of processes which are here collectively named postsecularization.
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Lions and foxes: revisiting Pareto’s bestiary for the age of late pluto-democracy
TL;DR: Vilfredo Pareto's legacy is uncertain; while his reputation in economics is secure, references to Vareto in contemporary sociology are few and fleeting as mentioned in this paper, and sociologists and members of the public who a...
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Political Performance, Profanation, and Mundane Interaction: a Revised Cultural Sociology of the 2016 American Presidential Election
TL;DR: For more than a decade, Jeffrey Alexander has been developing the cultural sociology of politics as an alternative to rationalist theories of political life as discussed by the authors, and the 2016 US presidential election offers some vindication for Alexander's cultural sociology.
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Dealing with dysnomia: Strategies for the cultivation of used concepts in social research.
TL;DR: Three tactics for dealing with dysnomia are named-academic arcana, classification and sociologism-and considered in order to ascertain the strengths and weaknesses of each.