Symbolic interaction and cultural studies / / editors, Howard S. Becker, Michal M. McCall

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827179603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 1990
• ISBN: 1-282-42611-7; 9786612426117; 0-226-04105-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (295 pages)
• Altri autori (Persone): BeckerHoward S <1928-2023.> (Howard Saul); McCallMichal M
• Disciplina: 306
• Soggetti: Symbolic interactionism; Culture
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Papers originally prepared for the 1988 Stone Symposium sponsored by the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Social Interaction, Culture, and Historical Studies -- 3. The Good News about Life History -- 4. Studying Religion in the Eighties -- 5. Why Philosophers Should Become Sociologists (and Vice Versa) -- 6. Art Worlds: Developing the Interactionist Approach to Social Organization -- 7. Symbolic Interactionism in Social Studies of Science -- 8. Fit for Postmodern Selfhood -- 9. People Are Talking: Conversation Analysis and Symbolic Interaction -- Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 not, the contributors to this volume fully acknowledge that the boundary between the social sciences and the humanities has begun to dissolve. This challenging volume explores that border area.