Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring – and certainly
the most sociological – of all social psychologies. In this
landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from
its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter with
poststructuralism and postmodernism.
Arguing that if interactionism is to continue to thrive and grow
it must incorporate elements of post structural and post-modern
theory into its underlying views of history, culture and politics,
the author develops a research agenda which merges the
interactionist sociological imagination with the critical insights
on contemporary feminism and cultural studies.
Norman Denzin’s programmatic analysis of symbolic
interactionism, which develops a politics of interpretation merging
theory and practice, will be welcomed by students and scholars in a
wide range of disciplines, from sociology to cultural studies.
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Series Editor’s Preface.
Preface.
1. The Interactionist Heritage.
2. The Interpretive Heritage.
3. Critique and Renewal: Links to Cultural Studies.
4. Enter Cultural Studies.
5. Communications as the Interactionist Problematic.
6. Interactionist Cultural Criticism.
7. Into Politics.
References.
Index.
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Norman Denzin is Professor of Sociology, Communications and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous books, including Sociological Methods: The Research Act; Interpretive Interactionism; The Recovering Alcoholic; and The Alcoholic Self, which won the Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in 1988. He is the editor of Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Journal and The Sociological Quaterly.