.... 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...

...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...

... work with unpublished primary documents in addition to his personal relationship with Mead.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...