Sociological slices : introductory readings from the interactionist perspective

Author(s)

• Fine, Gary Alan
• Johnson, John
• Farberman, Harvey A.

Bibliographic Information

Sociological slices : introductory readings from the interactionist perspective

editors: Gary Alan Fine, John Johnson, Harvey A. Farberman

JAI Press, c1992

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume contains articles from "Studies in Symbolic Interaction" and "Symbolic Interaction", journal of the "Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction". It features such themes as: self and society; occupations and organizations; politics and power; sex roles; and crime and deviance.

Table of Contents

• Part 1 Self and society: the bureaucratizing of impulse - self-conceptions in the 1980s, Louis Zurcher
• the social preservation of mind - the Alzheimer's disease experience, Jaber Gubrium. Part 2 Roles and self-presentation: aces and bombers - the post-exam impression management strategies of students, Daniel Albas and Cheryl Albas
• self-mockery - an alternative form of self-presentation, Sheldon Unger
• pauses - explorations in social rhythm, Robert P. Snow and Dennis Bussett. Part 2 Occupations and organizations: working for television - the social organization of TV drama, Sharon Mast
• good people doing dirty work - a study of social isolation, David S. Davis
• actors in search of a character - student social workers' quest for professional identity, Donileen R. Loseke and Spencer Chahill. Part 4 Politics and power: legitimation of oppression - response and reflexivity, Charlotte Wold
• the social construction of historical events through public dramas, Edward Gross. Part 5 Social movements and collective behaviour: fighting words - what we can learn from Hitler's hyperbole, Michael Blain
• victory celebrations as theatre - a dramaturgical approach to crowd behaviour, David A. Snow et al. Part 6 Sex roles: deviance, rule-breaking and male dominance in conversation, James D. Orcutt and Lynn Harvey
• patriarchal women, Debra Kaufman. Part 7 Marriage and the family: producing family problems - organization and use of the family perspective and rhetoric in family therapy, Gale Miller
• children's negotiation of meaning, Nancy Mandell. Part 8 Crime and deviance: restoring the semblance of order - police strategies in the domestic disturbance, Philip W. Davis
• toward a general theory of action, Ikuya Sato.

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Details

• NCID: BA19522581
• ISBN:
  • 1559385510
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Greenwich, Conn.
• Pages/Volumes: x, 338 p.
• Size: 24 cm