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The Interactionist Imagination; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; 1 Introduction; Introduction; Intellectual Influences
Five Cornerstones; Basic Ideas
Interactionism as 'Perspective', 'Approach' and 'Framework'; The Fragmentation, Diversification and Proliferation of Interactionism; About This Book; References; 2 Georg Simmel; Introduction; Georg Simmel
The Person; Simmel as an Interactionist avant la lettre; Simmel's Method and Analytic Attitude; Form and Content; How Is Society Possible?; Sociology of Knowledge; The Search for Generic Properties; Simmel and Blumer.
Simmel and GoffmanConclusion; References; 3 Robert E. Park; Introduction; Robert E. Park's Biography; Robert E. Park and Social Morphology; Society, Community and the Group; The Social Interaction Process; The Assimilation Process: Isolation, Accommodation, Competition, Conflict and Assimilation; Park and the Prospect of Interactionism; Conclusion; References; Archives; 4 George Herbert Mead; Introduction; Mead's Life and Intellectual Trajectory; Mead's Social Psychology: The Conceptual Foundations for Symbolic Interactionism; New Directions for Mead's Ideas in Contemporary Interactionism.
ConclusionReferences; 5 Everett C. Hughes; Introduction; The Graduate Years; Hughes's Early Use of Chicago Style Interactionism; Work, Occupations and Professions; Conclusion: Hughes's Legacy; References; 6 Herbert Blumer; Introduction; Blumer's Life and Career; Blumer's Studies; Blumer's Critique of Sociology; Blumer's Sociological Perspective; Conclusion; References; 7 Manford H. Kuhn; Introduction; Kuhn and the Epistemology-Ontology Schism; The Twenty Statements Test; The Age of Inquiry and Symbolic Interaction; Contrasting Kuhn with the Legacy of Blumer; Kuhn's Legacy: The New Iowa School.
Kuhn and the Ethos of Systematic InquiryConclusion: Let Us Now Praise a Fellow Soul; References; 8 Erving Goffman; Introduction; Erving Goffman
Enigmatic Man and Sociologist; Investigating 'The Interaction Order'
Studying Normality and Deviance in Everyday Life; Goffman and Symbolic Interactionism; Metaphors of Social Interaction; Goffman's Dramaturgical Interactionism; Goffman and the Microsociology of Emotions; Implications for Empirical Research; Conclusion; References; 9 Harold Garfinkel; Introduction; The Development of Ethnomethodology; What Is Ethnomethodology?; Unique Adequacy.
Action and AccountingIndexicality and Objectivity; Reflexivity; Examining Interaction; Discussion: Interactionist and Ethnomethodological Sociology; Conclusion; References; 10 Anselm L. Strauss; Introduction; A Life for Curiosity; Identity: From Social Psychology to Sociology; Action/Work as Creator of Reality; Process and Perspective Instead of Structure and Action; Social Worlds, Arenas and Organizations; Arcs of Work and Trajectories; A Theory-Methods Package; Conclusion; References; 11 Jack D. Douglas; Introduction; The Study of Suicide.
Five Cornerstones; Basic Ideas
Interactionism as 'Perspective', 'Approach' and 'Framework'; The Fragmentation, Diversification and Proliferation of Interactionism; About This Book; References; 2 Georg Simmel; Introduction; Georg Simmel
The Person; Simmel as an Interactionist avant la lettre; Simmel's Method and Analytic Attitude; Form and Content; How Is Society Possible?; Sociology of Knowledge; The Search for Generic Properties; Simmel and Blumer.
Simmel and GoffmanConclusion; References; 3 Robert E. Park; Introduction; Robert E. Park's Biography; Robert E. Park and Social Morphology; Society, Community and the Group; The Social Interaction Process; The Assimilation Process: Isolation, Accommodation, Competition, Conflict and Assimilation; Park and the Prospect of Interactionism; Conclusion; References; Archives; 4 George Herbert Mead; Introduction; Mead's Life and Intellectual Trajectory; Mead's Social Psychology: The Conceptual Foundations for Symbolic Interactionism; New Directions for Mead's Ideas in Contemporary Interactionism.
ConclusionReferences; 5 Everett C. Hughes; Introduction; The Graduate Years; Hughes's Early Use of Chicago Style Interactionism; Work, Occupations and Professions; Conclusion: Hughes's Legacy; References; 6 Herbert Blumer; Introduction; Blumer's Life and Career; Blumer's Studies; Blumer's Critique of Sociology; Blumer's Sociological Perspective; Conclusion; References; 7 Manford H. Kuhn; Introduction; Kuhn and the Epistemology-Ontology Schism; The Twenty Statements Test; The Age of Inquiry and Symbolic Interaction; Contrasting Kuhn with the Legacy of Blumer; Kuhn's Legacy: The New Iowa School.
Kuhn and the Ethos of Systematic InquiryConclusion: Let Us Now Praise a Fellow Soul; References; 8 Erving Goffman; Introduction; Erving Goffman
Enigmatic Man and Sociologist; Investigating 'The Interaction Order'
Studying Normality and Deviance in Everyday Life; Goffman and Symbolic Interactionism; Metaphors of Social Interaction; Goffman's Dramaturgical Interactionism; Goffman and the Microsociology of Emotions; Implications for Empirical Research; Conclusion; References; 9 Harold Garfinkel; Introduction; The Development of Ethnomethodology; What Is Ethnomethodology?; Unique Adequacy.
Action and AccountingIndexicality and Objectivity; Reflexivity; Examining Interaction; Discussion: Interactionist and Ethnomethodological Sociology; Conclusion; References; 10 Anselm L. Strauss; Introduction; A Life for Curiosity; Identity: From Social Psychology to Sociology; Action/Work as Creator of Reality; Process and Perspective Instead of Structure and Action; Social Worlds, Arenas and Organizations; Arcs of Work and Trajectories; A Theory-Methods Package; Conclusion; References; 11 Jack D. Douglas; Introduction; The Study of Suicide.