ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the critical comments published in the form of reviews, which concern specific works written by Jeffrey Alexander. It focuses on the problems of action and social order, as it seems to put an end to Alexander's epistemological discussion. The neofunctionalist program of studies and research includes, in Alexander's opinion, a new definition and conceptualization of the relations between culture and society, in which no integration is assumed. Cultural products, which originate from the scientific community a scholar belongs to, are included in this program of studies. Differently from positivist epistemology, the post-positivist epistemological approach states the impossibility of any knowledge of the natural or social reality that is not oriented by non-empirical presuppositions. Differently from the 'strong' program, the 'weak' program does not seek to make a sociological study of culture.
