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Adult Child Sexual Contact
advanced symbolic interactionist analysis
Allocative Processes
Author_David Maines
Bifurcated Consciousness
Blumer's Analysis
Blumer's Theories
Blumer’s Analysis
Blumer’s Theories
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Church Closings
Constitutive Rhetoric
Contract Research Firm
David R. Maines
Detroit Metropolitan Area
Detroit News
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General Sociology
group formation theory
Hudson's Department Store
Hudson’s Department Store
Human Group Life
interpretive social science
Jeffery Ulmer
Jeffrey Bridger
Joseph Palenski
Mead's Formulation
Mead's Theory
Mead's Thinking
Mead's Treatment
Mead’s Formulation
Mead’s Theory
Mead’s Thinking
Mead’s Treatment
Median Property Values
Michael McCallion
mythic
Mythic Facts
narrative inquiry methods
OMB Clearance
pragmatist sociology
qualitative social research
Reconstructive Legitimacy
social constructionism
Somali Respondents
Specious Present
Symbolic Interaction Ism
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Vicariate Planning
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Product details
- ISBN 9780202306469
- Weight: 385g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 31 Jul 2001
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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 organized as an expression of the centrality of interactionism to general sociology. Each chapter is designed to articulate this view of the field. Symbolic interactionism, the way Maines has come to understand and use it, is essentially the concerted application of pragmatist principles of philosophy to social inquiry.There are four basic elements to this characterization. First, people transform themselves: people are self-aware beings who reflexively form their conduct and thus are capable of adjusting their lines of action and creating new ones. Second, people transform their social worlds: human action takes place in contexts of situations and social worlds. People can modify the social matrices in which they act, and thus people are agents of change. Third, people engage in social dialogue: communication is generic and is at the heart of both stability and change. A fourth element is that people respond to and deal with their transformations. Humans construct situations and societies; they establish social structures and cultures. These are the consequences of human action and, once formed, they reflexively function to direct and channel conduct.Maines argues that when people do things together they can create enduring group formations, such as divisions of labor, rules for inheritance, wage-labor relations, or ideologies. These are instances of group characteristics that influence human conduct and indeed are not reducible to the traits of individuals making up the group or society.
