The faultline of consciousness : a view of interactionism in sociology / David R. Maines.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maines, David R.

Series:

Sociological imagination and structural change

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Symbolic interactionism.

Physical Description:

xx, 286 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : A. de Gruyter, [2001]

Contents:

1 The Interactionism of Contemporary Sociology 1

On Interactionism

Sociology's Interactionism

Some Thoughts and Reflections

I Theoretical Concerns 31

2 G. H. Mead's Theory of Time and Social Order 37

The Intellectual Context for Mead's Theory of the Past

The Nature of the Past

Dimensional Analysis of Mead's Formulation

Causation

Evolution, Science, and Temporality

Temporality and Social Order

3 Herbert Blumer's Theory of Industrialization and Social Change / Tom Morrione 55

Overview of Industrialization as an Agent of Social Change

Causation, Adjustment, and Social Organization

4 Consequential Distortions of Robert Park's Theory of Human Ecology / Jeffrey Bridger, Jeffery Ulmer 69

Representations of Park's Ecological Approach

"The Mistakes of the Pioneers"

Consequences of Mythic Facts

Park's Texts

Reflections and Discussion

II Empirical Studies 97

5 Reconstructive Legitimacy in Final Reports of Contract Research / Joseph Palenski 103

Theoretical and Methodological Considerations

Comparisons of Accounts and Observations

6 Urban Inequality and Detroit Archdiocesan Reorganization / Michael McCallion 115

The Ecological Situation of Metropolitan Detroit

Parish Closings: Background to the Vicariate Reorganization Plan

The Vicariate Reorganization Plan

The Reorganization Process

Communication Processes and Stratified Feedback Loops

7 Somali Migration to Canada and Resistance to Racialization / Abdi Kusow 135

Blumer's Theory of Race Relations

Identity Categories in Somalia

Encountering Racialized Identity Categories

Somali Perceptions of How They Are Perceived

Collective Exclusivity

III Narrative Sociology 163

8 Narrative, Gender, and the Problematics of Role 173

9 Narrative Structures and Incest / Wendy Evans 187

History and Narrative Structures

Paradigm Shift

Storied Transactions and Incestuous Social Acts

10 Narrative Structures and Social Institutions / Jeffrey Bridger 205

Background and Approach

Data and Methods

Theorizing Narrative Structures and Institutions

11 The Edges of Interactionism 225

The Cultural Studies / Postmodernist "Turn"

The Question of Stratification

Applied Sociology.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-277) and index.

ISBN:

0202306453

0202306461

OCLC:

45283252