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Interpretive sociology and the semiotic imagination / edited by Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Interpretive lenses in sociology.
- Interpretive lenses in sociology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Semiotics.
- Sociology--Methodology.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 212 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- Written by experts in interpretive sociology, this volume examines semiotic models in a sociological context. Contributors offer case studies to demonstrate 'how to do things' with semiotics. Synthesizing a diverse and fragmented landscape, this is a key reference work for understanding the connection between semiotics and sociology.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Series
- Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Series Editors' Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology-On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
- Signification as self-referential differences
- Signification as reflexive indexicalities
- Context and interpretation, habit and power, culture and cognition
- Context-making and indexical interpretation
- Habit formation and power
- Format of culture and cognition
- Outline of the chapters
- References
- 1 Marked and Unmarked: A Semiotic Distinction for Concept-driven Interpretive Sociology
- Why markedness and unmarkedness matter for interpretive sociology
- Sociocultural cognitive defaults and the exercise of social power
- Markedness and unmarkedness in the reproduction of social inequalities
- Unmarked power and epistemic exclusion: rethinking theory and researcher standpoint
- Power, privilege and identity
- Unmarked and marked identity attributes and intersectionality
- Perception: marked and unmarked risks and the semiotic asymmetry of cultural attention
- Conclusion
- 2 Blumer, Weber, Peirce, and the Big Tent of Semiotic Sociology: Notes on Interactionism, Interpretivism, and Semiotics
- A new synthesis: incorporating Blumer, Weber, and Peirce
- Symbols and interactions
- Step one: Blumer 1969 as anchor point
- Step two: American symbolic interactionism (ASI)
- Step three: interactionism in general (IG)
- Step four: Weberian interpretive sociology (ITM, CHS)
- Step five: Peirce's semiotics
- An old idea in new packaging
- Lifting the veils as a semiotic trope
- 3 Collective Agency: A Semiotic View
- Social entities.
- Agents: individual/collective
- Language and the social fabric
- The collective subject
- 4 Theorizing Side-directed Behavior
- Some empirical evidence
- De Waal on chimpanzee politics
- McFarland on classroom dynamics
- Bullying dynamics in schools
- Workplace dynamics
- Digital communication
- Developing a theoretical framework
- Simmel on triads and secrecy
- White on switchings
- How to proceed
- Networks
- Semiotics
- 5 Cultural Syntax and the Rules of Meaning-making: A New Paradigm for the Interpretation of Culture
- Introduction
- Semantics
- Structure
- Syntax
- The rules of meaning-making
- 6 Memory, Cultural Systems, and Anticipation
- Prologue (Springsteen and I)
- "Memory" and the semiotic space
- Semiotic ontologies, selectability, and the future
- The shapes of the future
- Conclusions
- 7 Stigma-embedded Semiotics: Indexical Dilemmas of HIV across Local and Migrant Networks
- Stigma against gay and bisexual men
- Condomless sex semiotics
- Social context from indexicality and metacommunication
- Indexicality
- Metacommunication
- Silence indexing resistance to stigma9
- Code of silence
- Pragmatics of serosorting dilemmas
- Metapragmatic awareness
- 8 Supremacy or Symbiosis? The Effect of Gendered Ideologies of the Transhuman versus Posthuman on Wearable Technology and Biodesign
- Wearable tech and biodesign
- Methods and messy taxonomies
- I'm not in marketing! Gendered assumptions of expertise
- The visual and the haptic
- A bizarre assault … it's really sick, especially when we're talking about body data
- The posthuman
- Cogs, machines, and circuits versus bodies, guts, and insides
- Conclusion: Why semiotics?
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Jan 2024).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-1178-6
- 1-5292-1176-X
- OCLC:
- 1379442144
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