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Interactionism
Interactionism: Exposition and Critique offers a balanced overview of symbolic interactionism from its earliest precursors to its latest proponents and critics.
Handbook of Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic interactionism has a long history in sociology, social psychology, and related social sciences. In this volume, the editors and contributors explain its history, major theoretical tenets and concepts, methods of doing symbolic interactionist work, and its uses and findings in a host of substantive research areas.
Symbolic Interaction
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Courageous Conversations at Work
This practical book will help you to master the key conversations you need to create a high performing team where people love to work. Do you manage a team of people? Do you want some useful tips for getting your people to deliver consistently great results? This practical book will help you to master the key conversations you need to create a high performing team. This book doesn’t just tell you what to do – it shows you the practical steps you can take to make a habit of courageous conversations at work. Courageous Conversations provides steps on how to deliver great feedback, set clear, properly resourced objectives, build trust, motivate even the most disengaged staff, lead problem-solving conversations that deliver measurable and positive progress, and coach people for higher levels of performance. It also explains when and where you should use courageous conversations. Whether you want to tackle the under-performers, engage the high performers, or help everyone in the team to find more fulfilment at work, Courageous Conversations is the book for you.
Symbolic Interactionism
Symbolic interactionsim is of major importance in contemporary sociology. In this study, three authorities in the field collaborate to define symbolic interactionism and to describe, and present criticism of, the interactionist perspective. The contributions of G.H. Mead, J. Dewey, C.H. Cooley, W.I. Thomas and other theorists to the interactionist viewpoint on human behaviour and social life are examined. There is a systematic discussion of the diverse schools of thought within the field, including H.G. Blumer's Chicago School, M.H. Kuhn's Iowa School, E. Goffman's dramaturgical approach and H. Garfinkel's ethnomethodology. Criticisms of symbolic interactionism by both adherents and opponents to the perspective are selected and assessed. Throughout the book, the authors survey the social and intellectual sources of significant ideas, thereby incorporating a reflexive, sociology-of-sociology orientation.
Devils and Rebels
"Well-written, scrupulously researched, and simultaneously sympathetic and critical toward its subject, Reynolds's book is important not only for its historically responsive account of Hawthorne's widely misunderstood politics but also its invigorating portrait of a perceptive author who struggled to resist the political extremism that swept the Northern states before and after the bombardment of Fort Sumter." ---New England Quarterly "This beautifully written, thoroughly researched study faces criticism of Hawthorne, both in his day and the present, for his stance on slavery and the Civil War. . . . Reynolds shows Hawthorne to have rejected the extremism of the abolitionists, been a pacifis...
Righteous Violence
Righteous Violence examines the struggles with the violence of slavery and revolution that engaged the imaginations of seven nineteenth-century American writers-Margaret Fuller, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Frederick Douglass, Henry David Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville. These authors responded not only to the state terror of slavery and the Civil War but also to more problematic violent acts, including unlawful revolts, insurrections, riots, and strikes that resulted in bloodshed and death. Rather than position these writers for or against the struggle for liberty, Larry J. Reynolds examines the profoundly contingent and morally complex perspectives of each auth...
The Concept of Race in Natural and Social Science
Explores the concept of race The term race, which originally denoted genealogical or class identity, has in the comparatively brief span of 300 years taken on an entirely new meaning. In the wake of the Enlightenment it came to be applied to social groups. This ideological transformation coupled with a dogmatic insistence that the groups so designated were natural, and not socially created, gave birth to the modern notion of races as genetically distinct entities. The results of this view were the encoding of race and racial hierarchies in law, literature, and culture. How racial categories facilitate social control The articles in the series demonstrate that the classification of humans acc...
A Critique of Contemporary American Sociology
Part 1 Part I: Introduction Chapter 2 The Crisis in Contemporary American Sociology: A Critique of the Discipline's Dominant Paradigm Chapter 3 The Bureaucratization of Sociology: Its Impact on Theory and Research Chapter 4 Ethnicity and Gender: The View from Above versus the View from Below Part 5 Part II: Introduction Chapter 6 Bureaucratic Secrets and Adversarial Methods of Social Research Chapter 7 Sociologist as Citizen-Scholar: A Symbolic Interactionist Alternative to Normal Sociology Chapter 8 The Rise of the Wisconsin School of Status-Attainment Research Chapter 9 Academic Labor Markets and the Sociology Temporary Chapter 10 Ideology and the Celebration of Applied Sociology Chapter 11 Western Sociology and the Third World: Asymmetrical Forms of Understanding and the Inadequacy of Sociological Discourse Chapter 12 The Rise and Fall of The American Sociologist
Ringworld Throne
Come back to the Ringworld . . . the most astonishing feat of engineering ever encountered. A place of untold technological wonders, home to a myriad humanoid races, and world of some of the most beloved science fiction stories ever written! The human, Louis Wu; the puppeteer known as the Hindmost; Acolyte, son of the Kzin called Chmeee . . . legendary beings brought together once again in the defense of the Ringworld. Something is going on with the Protectors. Incoming spacecraft are being destroyed before they can reach the Ringworld. Vampires are massing. And the Ghouls have their own agenda—if anyone dares approach them to learn. Each race on the Ringworld has always had its own Protector. Now it looks as if the Ringworld itself needs a Protector. But who will sit on the Ringworld Throne? “Niven’s work has been an intriguing and consistent universe, and this book is the keystone of the arch. . . . [His] technique is wonderfully polished, his characters and their situations are nicely drawn . . . wraps up (maybe) a corner of a very interesting universe.”—San Diego Union-Tribune
