Description
Book SynopsisThis book provides an invaluable introduction to the theoretical foundations and practical applications of interactionist approaches to everyday life.
Trade Review"Written by internationally recognized experts in the field, the first part of this book is an excellent guide to the different strands of qualitative sociology. The authors are able to convey complicated ideas in clear and accessible language. The authors then demonstrate that these ideas have a tangible impact on our understanding of a range of contemporary social issues. I highly recommend
Sociologies of Interaction."
Philip Manning, Cleveland State University"It neither simplifies the complexity of the three key approaches to social interaction, nor does it complicate the elegant simplicity of their central ideas. Along the way students are offered dozens of empirical hooks to hang the ideas from, leaving little excuse for losing their interactionist hats. Not so much a foundation, then, as a hallway connecting into a number of further intriguing rooms."
Eric Laurier, Edinburgh UniversityTable of ContentsIntroduction page 1
1 Pragmatism and Symbolic Interactionism 8
2 Phenomenology and Ethnomethodology 35
3 Conversation Analysis and the Interaction Order 63
4 Status and Power 98
5 The Body, Health and Illness 121
6 Work 142
7 Deviance 162
8 Leisure 188
Conclusion 208
Notes 219
References 221
Index 237
