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Book SynopsisWhether there ever existed a genuine sociological school of thought based on interactionsim at the University Chicago? and whether Herbert Blumer misinterpreted the major thrust of George Herbert Mead's thought? This title addresses these questions.
Table of ContentsList of Contributors. Interactionism: The Growing Threat of Intellectual Extinction. Revisiting the Mead–Blumer Controversy. The Chicago School: A Political Interpretation. Language and Mind in the Thought of G. H. Mead: Challenges from Chomsky's Linguistics. The Coinage of the Self: Money, Signs, and the Social Self. Santayana: Entering into the Drama of his Social Thought. Death Becomes Mead: Toward a Radical Interactionist Reading of Million Dollar Baby. A Home in Brick City. Blue Ribbon Papers: Interactionism: The Emerging Landscape. Studies in symbolic interaction. Studies in symbolic interaction. Copyright page.