Jeffrey C. Alexander

Jeffrey C. Alexander
Jeffrey C. Alexander
Born	Jeffrey Charles Alexander; May 30, 1947; Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S.
Academic background
Education	Harvard University (BA); University of California, Berkeley (PhD);
Thesis	Theoretical Logic in Sociology (1978)
Doctoral advisor	Robert N. Bellah
Other advisors	Leo Lowenthal, Neil Smelser
Influences	Robert N. Bellah; Émile Durkheim; Talcott Parsons; Edward Shils;
Academic work
Discipline	Sociology
Sub-discipline	Cultural sociology
School or tradition	Neofunctionalism
Institutions	University of California, Los Angeles; Yale University;

Jeffrey Charles Alexander (born 1947) is an American sociologist, and a prominent social theorist. He is the founding figure in the school of cultural sociology he refers to as the "strong program".

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