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Category Archives: Symbolic Interaction
Against the Symbolic Interactionism Dogma? Radical Interactionism enters into force
This book review by Yves Laberge in Symbolic Interaction deals with what he terms radical interactionism, generalising to symbolic interactionism. This is something I have been aware of in my own writings – it is what I refer to in this … Continue reading
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Tagged Housing and Social Theory, radical interactionism, Symbolic Interaction (Journal), Yves Laberge
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Chicago Sociology Includes Symbolic Interactionism
Posted on September 23, 2011 in jimsresearchnotes Thomas Theorem: “If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences” W. I. Thomas, 1928 The Second Chicago School of Sociology is little known in urban studies. To be more accurate, Robert Park and Ernest Burgess and others – notably Louis Wirth and Herbert … Continue reading
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Tagged Anselm Strauss, Chicago School, Howard S. Becker, Jock Young, Robert Prus, Thomas Theorem
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Whatever Happened to Aberdeen Symbolic Interactionism?
Raymond Illsley had a programme grant from the Medical Research Council (MRC). There was never any doubt that he would get it. Aberdeen already had a large and thriving group of teachers and students interested in symbolic interactionism. It is … Continue reading
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Tagged Alan Davis, Bryan Turner, Foresterhill, Gordon Horobin, Jim Kincaid, Laurie Taylor, medical sociology, Mike Mulkay, Old Brewery, Phil Strong
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Symbolic Interaction and Power: structure versus agency
Symbolic Interaction and Power: structure vs agency (First published in jimsresearchnotes 17 Dec 2009). This is part 9 in a series of research notes on Structure vs Agency in urban research The heritage of the Gouldner critique One of the most … Continue reading
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Tagged Anselm Strauss, Erving Goffman, Joseph Gusfield, micro sociology of power, Sociometry
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The Micro-Macro Distinction in Sociology: a symbolic interactionist approach
First Published in jimsresearchnotes 15 May 2012 This was the title of a manuscript I tried to get published as a book. I can’t remember which publisher I sent it to, but it was turned down. Although the title was the same as … Continue reading
Peter M. Hall
Peter M. Hall received his Sociology Ph.D. from Minnesota University in 1963 (see his University of Missouri home page, and his Colorado State University CV. An early publication by Hall was “A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis of Politics” Sociological Inquiry 1972 42, … Continue reading
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Tagged Erving Goffman, Peter M. Hall, Presentation of Self, The Sting
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Faberman and Criminogenic Markets
“A Criminogenic Market Structure: the automobile Industry” by Harvey A. Farberman was published in The Sociological Quarterly in 1975. I read it while I was a Lecturer in Politics at Adelaide University and thought the whole idea of criminogenic markets was very … Continue reading
Symbolic Interaction in Process: Introduction
Two symbolic interactionists who did their Ph.D.s at Minnesota University in the early 1960s, are Harvey A. Farberman and Peter M. Hall. I was corresponding with Harvey Farberman over his 1975 article on Criminogenic Markets, which I will examine in another … Continue reading
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Tagged Harvey Farberman, Minnesota Sociology, Peter M. Hall, Robert Dingwall, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, Symbolic Interaction (Journal), Tom R. Burns
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How Did Ordoliberalism Replace Symbolic Interactionism?
First Published as http://ordoliberalism.wordpress.com/2014/08/21/how-did-ordoli…interactionism/ Published here with minor revisions. Introduction: I’ve been a symbolic interactionist ever since going to Aberdeen in the mid 1960s. At the same time I’ve never published a book on interactionism, nor even an article in one of the … Continue reading
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Symbolic Interaction in Housing Research
Even if Housing, Theory and Society has very little symbolic interaction evident this only reflects the lack of contributions in the perspective, which says more about the state of housing research than reflecting on the journal. But Keith Jacobs, Jim Kemeny … Continue reading
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Tagged doing everyday life, Grounded Theory, Jock Young, Social Problems Journal, Society for the Study of Social Problems
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My Symbolic Interaction 