{"product_id":"symbolic-interactionism-and-cultural-studies-isbn-9781557862914","title":"Symbolic Interactionism and Cultural Studies","description":"Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter with poststructuralism and postmodernism. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eArguing that if interactionism is to continue to thrive and grow it must incorporate elements of post structural and post-modern theory into its underlying views of history, culture and politics, the author develops a research agenda which merges the interactionist sociological imagination with the critical insights on contemporary feminism and cultural studies.\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNorman Denzin's programmatic analysis of symbolic interactionism, which develops a politics of interpretation merging theory and practice, will be welcomed by students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines, from sociology to cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e  Series Editor's Preface. \u003cp\u003ePreface.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. The Interactionist Heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. The Interpretive Heritage.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Critique and Renewal: Links to Cultural Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Enter Cultural Studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Communications as the Interactionist Problematic.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Interactionist Cultural Criticism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Into Politics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e \"In this book, Denzin has saved a place for and makes reference to virtually every sociologist working under the rubric of SI today.\" \u003ci\u003eJoseph A. Kotarba\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003eNorman Denzin\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology, Communications and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous books, including \u003ci\u003eSociological Methods: The Research Act\u003c\/i\u003e;\u003ci\u003e Interpretive Interactionism\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Recovering Alcoholic\u003c\/i\u003e; and\u003ci\u003e The Alcoholic Self\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in 1988. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eStudies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Sociological Quaterly.\u003c\/i\u003e  Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring - and certainly the most sociological - of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Norman K. Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter with poststructuralism and postmodernism.  \u003cp\u003eArguing that if interactionism is to continue to thrive and grow it must incorporate elements of post structural and post-modern theory into its underlying views of history, culture and politics, the author develops a research agenda which merges the interactionist sociological imagination with the critical insights on contemporary feminism and cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNorman Denzin's programmatic analysis of symbolic interactionism, which develops a politics of interpretation merging theory and practice, will be welcomed by students and scholars in a wide range of disciplines, from sociology to cultural studies.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990121496805,"sku":"NP9781557862914","price":53.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781557862914.jpg?v=1761786596","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/symbolic-interactionism-and-cultural-studies-isbn-9781557862914","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}