1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism
The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism demonstrates the promise and diversity of the interactionist perspective in social science today, providing students and practitioners with an overview of the impressive developments in interactionist theory, methods and research. Thematically organized, it explores the history of interactionism and the contemporary state of the field, considering the ways in which scholars approach topics that are central to interactionism. As such, it presents discussions of self, identity, gender and sexuality, race, emotions, social organization, media and the internet, and social problems. With attention to new developments in methods and methodologies, including digital ethnography, visual methods and research ethics, the authors also engage with new areas of investigation that have emerged in light of current societal developments, such as policing and police violence, interactionism beyond binaries and social media. Providing a comprehensive overview of the current state and possible future of interactionist research, it will appeal to interactionist scholars, as well as to established sociologists and students of sociology who have an interest in latest developments in interactionism.
Part 1: Introduction
1. Introduction
Dirk vom Lehn, Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Will Gibson
Part 2: Varieties of Interactionism
2. Pragmatism and Interaction
Frithjof Nungesser
3. Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism and 21st-century Sociology
Thomas J. Morrione
4. Straussian Negotiated Order Theory c.1960–Present
Adele Clarke
5. Recent Developments in the New Iowa School of Symbolic Interactionism
Michael Katovich and Shing-Ling S. Chen
6. Dramaturgical Frameworks and Interactionism
Greg Smith
7. Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis: The Other Interactionism
Jason Turowetz and Anne Warfield Rawls
Part 3: Self, Identity, and Emotions
8. Click, Validate, and Reply: Three Paradoxes of the Terminal Self
Simon Gottschalk
9. Animal Selfhood
Leslie Irvine
10. The Self and the Supernatural
Rachael Ironside
11. The (Un)Healthy Body and the Self
Lisa Jean Moore and Sumayra Khan
12. Identity and Racialisation
Matt Hughey and Michael Rosino
13. Symbolic Interaction beyond Binaries
J.E. Sumerau
14. Culture and Emotion: Interactionist Perspectives
Doyle McCarthy
Part 4: Social Organisation
15. Organizations and Institutions
Patrick McGinty
16. Symbolic Interactionism, Social Structure, and Social Change: Historical Debates and Contemporary Challenges
Stacey Hannem
17. Mental Health and Symbolic Interactionism: Untapped Opportunities
Baptiste Brossard
18. Handling Video of [Police] Violence: Theoretical versus Practical Analyses
Patrick Watson and Albert J. Meehan
19. Space, Mobility, and Interaction
Robin James Smith
20. Nature and the Environment in Interaction
Anthony Puddephatt
21. The Social Organization of Time
Michael G. Flaherty
22. Collective Memory
Lisa-Jo van den Scott
Part 5: Interactionism, Media and the Internet
23. Media Logic, Fear, and the Construction of Terrorism
David Altheide
24. Public Fear and the Media
Joel Best
25. Policing and Social Media
Chris Schneider
26. Interactionism and Online Identity: How has Interactionism Contributed to Understandings of Online Identity?
Hannah Ditchfield
27. Physical Co-presence and Distinctive Features of Online Interactions
Xiaoli Tian and Yui Fung Yip
28. Happy Birthday Michael Jackson: Dead Celebrity and Online Interaction
Kerry O. Ferris
29. Multi-Player Online Gaming
David Kirschner
Part 6: New Developments in Methods
30. Situational Analysis as Critical Pragmatist Interactionism
Carrie Friese, Rachel Washburn and Adele Clarke
31. Video in Interactionist Research
René Tuma
32. Digital Naturalism: Ethnography in Networked Worlds
Michael Dellwing
33. Ethics in Symbolic Interactionist Research
Will van den Hoonard and Deborah van den Hoonard
Part 7: Reimagining Interactionism
34. Toward an Expanded Definition of Symbolic Interactionism
Linda Liska Belgrave, Kapriskie Seide and Kathy Charmaz
35. Some Antinomies of Interactionism
Martyn Hammersley
36. Interactionist Research: Extending Methods, Extending Fields
Emilie Morwenna Whitaker and Paul Atkinson
37. The New Horizons of Symbolic Interactionism
Kent Sandstrom, Lisa K. van den Scott and Gary Alan Fine
Biography
Dirk vom Lehn is Professor of Organisation and Practice at King’s Business School, King’s College London, UK. He is the author of Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology.
Natalia Ruiz-Junco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Auburn University, USA, and co-editor of Updating Charles H. Cooley: Contemporary Perspectives on a Sociological Classic.
Will Gibson is Reader in Social Research Methods at University College London, Institute of Education, UK, and co-author of Institutions, Interaction and Social Theory and Working with Qualitative Data.
