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Record Nr.

UNINA9910144409003321

Autore

Denzin Norman K

Titolo

Symbolic interactionism and cultural studies [[electronic resource] ] : the politics of interpretation / / Norman K. Denzin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, U.K. ; ; Cambridge, Mass., : Blackwell, 1992

ISBN

1-282-12301-7

9786612123016

0-470-69896-9

0-470-69841-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (232 p.)

Collana

Twentieth-century social theory

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Symbolic interactionism

Culture

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [172]-205) and index.

Nota di contenuto

SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND CULTURAL STUDlES THE POLITICS OF INTERPRETATION; CONTENTS; Series Editor's Preface; 1. The Interactionist Heritage; 2. The Interpretive Heritage; 3. Critique and Renewal: Links to Cultural Studies; 4. Enter Cultural Studies; 5. Communication as Interactionist Problematic; 6. Interactionist Cultural Criticism; 7. Into Politics; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter with poststructuralism and postmodernism.  Arguing that if interactionism is to continue to thrive and grow it must incorporate elements of post structural and post-modern theory into its underlying views of history, culture and politics, the author develops a research agenda which merges the interactionist sociological imagination with