... brotherhood ethnography firefighters masculinity gender politics social change symbolic interactionism Conjure up a mental image of a firefighter. ¹ Your firefighter might be rescuing a victim from a window with smoke billowing out of it, manning a nozzle on a house fire with fire spreading...

... and Mead on Baldwin John Coser Lewis A Seigfried Charlene Haddock symbolic interactionism theory Mead Thomas William I University of Chicago Chicago City Club Committee on Education Chicago Federal Commission on Industrial Relations Citizens Committee of Garment Workers Deegan Mary Jo Illinois...

.... Impulses for a sociology of emotions came from within the discipline – mainly Erving Goffman's symbolic interactionism – as well as from the impact of larger social and political contexts, especially the preoccupation with social, racial, and gender inequalities. Arlie Hochschild's classic study...

... inheritance Gothic concept death scenes mourning spectres Townshend Dale virtual remains Goffman Erving death Networked spectrality Black Mirror Grief Haunting Affordances of networked publics Context collapse Symbolic interactionism Mediated remains Technical persistence The ‘Be Right Back...

...Symbolic interactionism, resolutely empirical in practice, shares theoretical concerns with cultural studies and humanistic discourse. Recognizing that the humanities have engaged many of the important intellectual currents of the last twenty-five years in ways that sociology has...

...This introductory chapter discusses the complex history of symbolic interactionism (SI) along with the theoretical and methodological foundations of this multifaceted and broadly relevant perspective in the field of sociology. Rather than seeing SI as a well-defined program, the volume’s editors...

...Symbolic interactionists have long focused on how context and settings influence interaction dynamics. While developments in digital media have transformed mediated interaction, the key components of social interaction persist, and symbolic interactionism continues to have implications...

...This chapter aims to discuss how symbolic interactionism can take the opportunity to draw on its conceptual corpus to shed light on the new forms of religiosity expressed in contemporary social processes. This goal will be pursued in four stages: in the first stage the extreme importance...

... interactionism focused on power and complex inequalities. Symbolic interactionism (SI), like many longstanding theoretical traditions, developed in a historical context where sociologists gave greater epistemological weight to the ideas of scholars who represented unmarked, privileged social standpoints (e.g...

..., and to show how it can be used in social work and related fields. It provides some historical background on the method, emphasizing its common roots with those of the social work profession. The chapter includes an introduction to the theory of symbolic interactionism because its ideas are central to both...

...This chapter focuses on some of the neglected American philosophers in the history of symbolic interactionism, including Josiah Royce, George Herbert Mead, and Chauncey Wright. Historians of social psychology and sociology have given considerable attention to the development of symbolic...

... ). Cultural psychology—what is it? In J. W. Stigler, R. A. Shweder, & G. Herdt (Eds.), Cultural psychology: Essays on comparative human development (pp. 1–43). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. Stryker, S. ( 2002 ). Traditional symbolic interactionism, role theory...

... work with unpublished primary documents in addition to his personal relationship with Mead. Blumer, in contrast, appealed to Mead’s supposed “symbolic interactionism” in his criticisms of dominant American social science, and he mobilized claims on the basis of his personal relationship and the oral...

... explanation historical explanation symbolic interactionism historical object The pendulums of sociology reached their zeniths in structuralism and formal theory some time ago. In the last twenty years positivism, abstracted empiricism, and what C. Wright Mills mockingly called “grand theory” have been...

... be heard. The pragmatist philosophers who laid the basis for symbolic interactionism were particularly interested in the nature of scientific inquiry, methodologies, and approaches. However, these concerns were largely ignored in the interactionist sociological tradition. Over the past decade, both...

...This chapter examines how social movement activists, specifically animal rights activists, talk about their feelings. The approach taken is basically that of symbolic interactionism. It looks at how activists interpret their emotions in the context of their interactions with significant others...

... entrepreneurship institutional work Lawrence T B Suddaby R Hayakawa S I Rojas F inhabited institutionalism II Creed D Gouldner A W Hallett T Scully M Ventresca M J institutional logics working institutions Devo Kaynak E public affairs professionals symbolic interactionism institutional...

... . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. Blumer, H. ( 1969 ). Symbolic interactionism: Perspectives and method . Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall. Bogdan, R. C. , & Biklen, S. K. ( 1998 ). Foundations of qualitative research in education (3rd ed.). Boston, MA...

...This chapter models a symbolic interactionist approach to the history of symbolic interactionism. It begins with a discussion of the term ‘symbolic interaction’ as devised by Herbert Blumer and the limits of its applicability to the body of work that represents this tradition. This owes at least...

... Marx Karl and Marxism Mead George Herbert Michels Robert Mischke Kelsey power Schwalbe Michael social order Weber Max Miller David George Herbert Mead Self Language and the World cooperation Dennis Alex Martin Peter Ruiz Junco Natalia symbolic interactionism SI emotions exploitation...