Preface
PART ONE: ABSOLUTIST SOCIOLOGIES AND PHENOMENOLOGICAL SOCIOLOGIES
1. Understanding Everyday Life
Jack D. Douglas
2. Alfred Schutz and the Sociology of Common-sense Knowledge
John Heeren
3. Normative and Interpretive Paradigms in Sociology
Thomas P. Wilson
4. The Everyday World as a Phenomenon
Don H. Zimmerman and Melvin Pollner
PART TWO: CONSTRUCTING SITUATIONAL MEANINGS: LANGUAGE, MEANING AND ACTION
5. On Meaning by Rule
D. Lawrence Wieder
6. The Acquisition of Social Structure: Toward a Developmental Sociology of Language and Meaning
Aaron V. Cicourel
7. Words, Utterances, and Activities
Roy Turner
8. The Everyday World of the Child
Matthew Speier
PART THREE: RULES, SITUATED MEANINGS, AND ORGANIZED ACTIVITIES
9. The Practicalities of Rule Use
Don H. Zimmerman
10. Talking and Becoming: A View of Organizational Socialization
Peter K. Manning
PART FOUR: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND ETHNOMETHODOLOGY
11. Symbolic Interactionism and Ethnomethodology
Norman K. Denzin
12. Ethnomethodology and the Problem of Order: Comment on Denzin
Don H. Zimmerman and D. Lawrence Wieder
PART FIVE: SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY AND TRUTH
13. Theorizing Alan F. Blum
14. On the Failure of Positivism Peter McHugh
References
Index
Biography
Jack D Douglas






