David Maines

Social Organization and Social Process

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays gathered in this volume contain analyses based on the general action perspective of Chicago sociology and, in particular, on the contributions of Anselm L

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 410
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 1991
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 742g
• ISBN-13: 9780202303901
• ISBN-10: 020230390X
• Artikelnr.: 20954068

Autorenporträt

David R. Maines is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University. His work has focused on articulating issues of social organization and social struc[1]ture from an interactionist perspective as weil as the fundamental relevance of temporality and communication for the development of social theory. He is the current Editor of the journal Symbolic lnteraction, and his recent books include Communication and Social Structure (with Carl Couch), Friendship in Context (with Helena Z. Lopata), and Jndustrialization as an Agent of Social Change: A Critical Analysis by Herbert Blumer (with Thomas J. Morrione). His current research focuses on the narrative aspects of social life

Inhaltsangabe

PART I. INTRODUCTION 1. Reflections, Framings, and Appreciations 2. In
Honor of Anselm Strauss: Collaboration 3. Anselm Strauss: An Intellectual
Biography PART II. IDENTITIES AND THE DEVELOPING PERSON4. Children's
Conceptions of Money: Concepts and Social Organization 5. On the Empirical
Investigation of Self-Concepts 6. Turning Points and Fictional Identities
7. Affirming Social Value: Women without Children 8. Identity Ambivalence
in Clothing: The Dialectic of the Erotic and the Chaste PART III. SOCIAL
ORGANIZATION AND SOCIAL WORLDS 9. Social Worlds/Arenas Theory as
Organizational Theory 10. AIDS and Outreach Work 11. Arenas and Careers:
The Complex Interweaving of Personal and Organizational Destiny 12. The
Urban Milieu: Locales, Public Sociability, and Moral Concern 13. On
Methods, Ontologies, and Representation in the Sociology of Science: Where
do We Stand? 14. Reaching the Invisible: A Case Study of Experimental Work
in Microbiology (1880-1900); Portrait of Anselm L. Strauss; Conversation
with Anselm L. Strauss PART IV. METHODS, ANALYSIS, AND THEORY 15. The
Sociology of the Invisible: The Primacy of Work in the Writings of Anselm
Strauss 16. Supplementing Grounded Theory 17. Dimensional Analysis: Notes
on an Alternative Approach to the Grounding of Theory in Qualitative
Research 18. Wandering through the Caves: Phenomenological Field Research
in a Social World of Dementia 19. Trajectory as a Basic Theoretical Concept
for Analyzing Suffering and Disorderly Social Processes 20. Trajectory as
Intended Fragment: The Critique of Empirical Reason According to Anselm
Strauss 21. Reality of Social Worlds and Trajectories of Working; The
Scholarly Writings of Anselm L. Strauss