Studies in Symbolic Interaction Vol. 37

Book details for Studies in Symbolic Interaction Vol. 37

Series: Studies in Symbolic Interaction v. 37

Contributor(s): Norman K. Denzin (editor), Norman K. Denzin (series editor),

Format: Hardback, 234 x 156 x 25mm , 272 pp, Illustrations

Publication date: 06 Oct 2011

Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing Limited

ISBN: 9781780521565

Price: £72.95

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Synopsis

Volume 37 in the bi-annual series "Studies in Symbolic Interaction" is divided into three distinct parts: Part One, Theoretical Openings, focuses on new theoretical work in the interactionist tradition by leading interdisciplinary scholars. It examines the mesodomain of welfare reform through re-negotiating the order of economic inequality, provides a grounded fractal analysis into the medicalization of homelessness and the sociology of the self, and looks at the labeling of immigrant men as criminals. In Part Two, Studies in Social Construction, focus shifts to issues of gender, ethnicity, illness and the urban situation including articles on the social constructions of the non-prejudiced white self, women's interaction with romantic comedies and the impact on their relationship, and engaging cultural narratives of the ethnic restaurant. The third and final part, Autoethnographic Interventions, turns inward to autoethnographic reflections on identity, technology, family, work and self including contributions on the digital evolution of an American identity and nursing's moral imperative as the flexible professional and the discourse of unexpected evidence.