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Book SynopsisThis book presents an overview of that theoretical framework known as symbolic interactionism. It details the major intellectual and philosophical antecedents of the interactionist perspective, i.e., evolutionism, Scottish moral philosophy, German idealism, pragmatism, and functional psychology. Under the heading evolutionism, the Darwinian notion of the mutually determinative relationship existing between environments and organisms is discussed, as are Henri Bergson''s conceptions of the nature of radical, abrupt departures from earlier life forms and of the emergence of novel events. Scottish moral philosophers are dealt with in terms of their contribution to the conceptual inventory of symbolic interactionism. Of particular relevance here are concepts such as the impartial spectator sympathy, the I, the Me, role taking, generalized other, and looking-glass self. Those German idealists exerting an impact on George Herbert Mead and symbolic interactionism, namely, Fichte, Von Schelli
Table of ContentsPart 1 Symbolic Interactionism Chapter 2 Intellectual Antecedents Chapter 3 The Early Interactionists Part 4 Contemporary Interactionism: Major Varieties Chapter 5 The Chicago School Chapter 6 The Iowa School Chapter 7 The Dramaturgical Genre Chapter 8 Ethnomethodology Chapter 9 Contemporary Interactionism: Summary Characteristics Part 10 A Perspective Critiqued Chapter 11 Interactionist Self-Criticism Chapter 12 Noninteractionist Critiques Chapter 13 The New Studies in Social Organization: Overcoming the Astructural Bias Chapter 14 Human Emotions Chapter 15 Some Recent Directions in Symbolic Interactionism
