1st Edition

Critical and Cultural Interactionism Insights from Sociology and Criminology

Edited By Michael Hviid Jacobsen Copyright 2019
248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

248 Pages
by Routledge

One of the longest standing traditions in sociology, interactionism is concerned with studying human interaction and showing how society to a large part is constituted by patterns of interaction. In spite of the work of figures such as Robert E. Park, Everett C. Hughes, Erving Goffman, Herbert Blumer, Norman K. Denzin and Gary Alan Fine, interactionism – perhaps owing to its association with the... Read more

Introduction: The Coming of Critical and Cultural Interactionisms  1. Misgivings About Goffman: Social Structure, Power and Politics in the Work of Erving Goffman  2. Upscaling Goffman: Four Principles of Neostructural Interactionism  3. A Call to a Critical Interpretive Interactionism  4. Dramaturgical Interactionism: Ideas of Self-Presentation, Impression Management and the Staging of Social Life as a Catapult For Critique  5. Critical Interactionism: A Theoretical Bridge for Understanding Complex Human Conditions  6. Pacifism, Gender and Symbolic Interactionism  7. Towards a Feminist Symbolic Interactionism  8. An Invitation to ‘Radical Interactionism’: Towards a Reorientation of Interactionist Sociology?  9. Symbolic Interactionism and The Frankfurt School: A Critical Appraisal  10. Situational Analysis as a Critical Interactionist Method  11. Cultural Criminology and its Incitement for Symbolic Interactionism: Transgression, Marginalisation, Resistance and Media in the Wider Context of Power and Culture of Late Modernity

Biography

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the co-author of The Social Thought of Erving Goffman, the editor of Postmortal Society; Deconstructing Death; The Poetics of Crime; and Beyond Bauman: Creative Excursions and Critical Engagements, and the co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman; Encountering the Everyday; The Transformation of Modernity; Utopia: Social Theory and the Future; Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences; and Liquid Criminology.