The Interactionist Imagination: Studying Meaning, Situation and Micro-Social Order
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| Rating | : | 4.91 (587 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073LP7WVN |
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| Number of Pages | : | 313 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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Through an engagement with the latest scholarship this work shows that in a discipline often focused on macrosocial developments and large-scale structures, the interactionist perspective which privileges the study of human interaction has continued relevance. It presents analyses of interactionist theorists from Georg Simmel through to Herbert Bulmer and Erving Goffman and onto the more recent contributions of Arlie R. Arranged chronologically, each chapter illustrates the impact that individual sociologists working within an interactionism framework have had on interactionism as perspective and on the discipline of sociology as such. The broad scope of this book will make it an invaluable resource for scholars and students of sociology, social theory, cultural studies, media studies, social psychology, criminology and anthropology.. Hochschild and Gary Alan Fine. This book outlines the history and developments of interactionist social thought through a consideration of its key figures
This volume will persuade the reader of the value of interaction as crucial to understanding social order.” (Gary Alan Fine, Northwestern University, USA) “This is a sterling collection of essays that explicates the work of the founding framers, late twentieth-century paladins, and some of today’s luminaries in symbolic interactionism. Jacobsen’s project demonstrates that the interactionist imagination deserves center stage in the interpretation of human events.” (Gil Richard Musolf, Central Michigan University, USA, and editor of “Studies in Symbolic Interaction”). “A history of any important intellectual perspective inevitably involves