Essential Interactionism

On the Intelligibility of Prejudice
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-041-53741-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 204 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Originally published in 1980, Essential Interactionism: On the Intelligibility of Prejudice suggests a solution to the dilemma of how to derive intelligibility of a social scientific phenomenon. Most customary approaches use commonsense, dictionary definitions, operationalization or formal logic. Each is an attempt to make phenomena amenable to scientific discourse and is a response to the disarray of communication in social science. None of these customary approaches remain faithful, however, both to the social and scientific history of the phenomena and to the promotion of scientific discourse across theoretical and methodological boundaries.

Both the products and processes of science are human actions. The products are human linguistic actions which result from processes of intellectual, social and other actions. Scientific literature is the reports of these actions. The author’s proposal is to derive the intelligibility of a social scientific phenomenon by exploring the literature concerning that phenomenon, to study science as action.

Zielgruppe

Adult education, General, and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glassner, Barry

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface. Introduction  Part I: Ontological Considerations 1. Causation and Interaction 2. Symbolic and Essential Interactionisms  Part II: Method Introduction 3. General Considerations 4. Literature as Sites  Part III: First Illustration of a Method Introduction 5. Maps and Proposed Essences 6. Elaboration of Essences: I 7. Elaboration of Essences: II 8. Possible Applications 9. Assessment and Further Development. Appendix: Sample Fieldnotes. Notes. Bibliography. Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Barry Glassner is a sociologist and the author of seven books, he received his doctorate from Washington University in St. Louis and went on to become chair of the sociology departments at Syracuse University, the University of Connecticut, and the University of Southern California, where he subsequently served for five years as Executive Vice Provost before being appointed President of Lewis & Clark College in Oregon. He has published research studies in The American Sociological Review, American Journal of Psychiatry, and other leading journals in the social sciences.