1st Edition

Continual Permutations of Action

Edited By Anselm L. Strauss Copyright 1993
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

280 Pages
by Routledge

Richard Bernstein expressed the view that pragmatism was ahead of its time; the same has been true of symbolic interactionism. These two closely related perspectives, one philosophical and the other sociological, place human action at the center of their explanatory schemes. It has not mattered what aspect of social or psychological behavior was under scrutiny. Whether selves, minds, or emotions,... Read more
Introduction; Part I; 1: Assumptions of a Theory of Action; 2: An Interactionist Theory of Action; Part II; 3: Work and the Intersection of Forms of Action; 4: Body, Body Processes, and Interaction 1; 5: Interaction, Thought Processes, and Biography; 6: Interacting and Symbolizing; 7: Representation and Misrepresentation in Interaction; 8: The Interplay of Routine and Nonroutine Action; 9: Social Worlds and Society; 10: Social Worlds and Interaction in Arenas; 11: Negotiated Order and Structural Ordering

Biography

Strauss, Anselm L.