1st Edition
The Faultline of Consciousness A View of Interactionism in Sociology
Edited By David Maines
Copyright 2001
307 Pages
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Routledge
306 Pages
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Routledge
306 Pages
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Routledge
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In this compendium of related and cross-referential essays, David R. Maines draws from pragmatist/symbolic interactionist assumptions to formulate a consistent new view of the entire field of sociology. Suitable for courses in social theory, qualitative methods, social psychology, and narrative inquiry, this volume will change the way the general public looks at interpretive sociology.This book is... Read more
1: The Interactionism of Contemporary Sociology; I: Theoretical Concerns; 2: G. H. Mead’s Theory of Time and Social Order; 3: Herbert Blumer’s Theory of Industrialization and Social Change; 4: Consequential Distortions of Robert Park’s Theory of Human Ecology; II: Empirical Studies; 5: Reconstructive Legitimacy in Final Reports of Contract Research; 6: Urban Inequality and Detroit Archdiocesan Reorganization; 7: Somali Migration to Canada and Resistance to Racialization; III: Narrative Sociology; 8: Narrative, Gender, and the Problematics of Role; 9: Narrative Structures and Incest; 10: Narrative Structures and Social Institutions; IV: Epilogue; 11: The Edges of Interactionism
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David Maines
