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The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism

INTRODUCTION Why a new handbook?Structure of the handbook Varieties of interactionism Self, identity and emotions Social organization Interaction, media and the Internet New developments in methods Reimagining interactionism Note References Varieties of interactionism PRAGMATISM AND INTERACTION Introduction Modes of organism-environment interaction Social interaction and the emergence of the self through perspective-taking The refinement of perspective-taking in the course of socialisation Pragmatist social theory and the interactionist tradition in sociology Experience, social objects, and meaning as products of interaction The social constitution and transformations of the self Perspective-taking, emotions, and social order The universalisation, hierarchies, and conflicts of perspectives Concluding remarks Notes References HERBERT BLUMER, SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM, AND 21ST-CENTURY SOCIOLOGY Opening Pandora’s box: paradigmatic clashes in the social sciences Rooted in pragmatism Premises, “root images,” and central conceptions Processes within processes Emergence Social causation, macro social phenomena: industrialization and race prejudice Conclusion References STRAUSSIAN NEGOTIATED ORDER THEORY c. 1960-PRESENT Straussian negotiated order and social worlds/arenas theories Early negotiated order research (c. 1960-1990)Later negotiated order research (c. 1990-2020)Contemporary reincarnations of negotiated order theory and research, c. 1990-present Conclusions Notes References RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE NEW IOWA SCHOOL OF SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM Manford Kuhn and Carl Couch - from Iowa to new Iowa School Strains of Couch’s scholarship Symbolic interactionism Qualitative laboratory research Information technologies Fusion of strains Conclusion: digital sociology - the new Iowa School approach References DRAMATURGICAL FRAMEWORKS AND INTERACTIONISM Goffman’s breakthrough Dramaturgy, impression management, presentation of self and dramatism Goffman’s dramaturgical principles Dramaturgy assessed Studies in dramaturgy References ETHNOMETHODOLOGY AND CONVERSATION ANALYSIS The other interactionism Introduction The marginalization of studies of social interaction Overview of the development of ethnomethodology Origins and early development of ethnomethodology The trust argument The development of ethnomethodology after 1954 Collaboration with Sacks, studies in ethnomethodology, and studies of work The development of conversation analysis Conclusion Notes References PART3 Self, identity and emotions CLICK, VALIDATE, AND REPLY Three paradoxes of the terminal self Introduction Hypermodernism: acceleration and digital colonization Click: adjustments in sensory-motor skills and perception Validate: adjustments in the need for social recognition Reply: adjustments in emotional dispositions Disconnect: terminal paradoxes Notes References ANIMAL SELFHOOD Animals as minded social actors From personhood to selves Agency: the active self-experience Coherence: the embodied self-experience Affectivity: the emotional self-experience Self-continuity: the continuous self-experience Animal selves and their implications References THE SELF AND THE SUPERNATURAL Introduction What are supernatural experiences?Managing the self and the supernatural The trouble with supernatural experiences The body and experiencing ghosts Making the invisible visible Becoming supernatural Empty spaces and supernatural inference Bodily gesture and supernatural features Conclusion Notes References THE (UN)HEALTHY BODY AND THE SELF Interactionism, selves, bodies, emotions Critical body studies Affect studies Disability studies Transgender studies The over-medicalisation of deviance The medical surveillance of marginalised groups Conclusion Acknowledgments References IDENTITY AND RACIALIZATION Introduction Concepts and combination: when “identity” met “racialization”Power and pathos: what these terms (don’t) give us The reticule of “race”: more than identity Conclusion Notes References SYMBOLIC INTERACTION BEYOND BINARIES Identity work The interactional construction of sex Navigating non-binary genders Seeing sexual fluidity Closing remarks References CULTURE AND EMOTION Interactionist perspectives Pragmatist roots of culture theory Emotional culture(s): the concept Emotional culture today The primacy of subjectivity and feeling The conjunction today of identity and emotion Emotional intensity Note References Social organisation ORGANIZATIONS AND INSTITUTIONS Introduction The problem of organizations and institutions and associated analyses Symbolic interactionism and inattention to organizational and institutional concerns Interactionism’s institutional approach The implications and impacts of new institutionalism as a disciplinary shift Contemporary interactionist institutional approaches Conclusion Notes References SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM, SOCIAL STRUCTURE, AND SOCIAL CHANGE Historical debates and contemporary challenges Critiques and debates of the astructural bias Symbolic interaction, social structure, and social change: the gender question #MeToo and the definition of the situation Concluding thoughts Notes References MENTAL HEALTH AND SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM Untapped opportunities The experience of mental health From the power of labels to the disadvantages of stigma Illness as a product of interaction patterns Social control and the mind Conclusion References HANDLING VIDEO OF [POLICE] VIOLENCE Theoretical versus practical analyses Introduction Sociology’s approach to videos of violence An ambiguous case of police violence Interpreting video from a uniquely adequate framework Interpreting video as evidence - reasoning with moving images Discussion and conclusion Notes References SPACE, MOBILITY, AND INTERACTION Social organisation, spatial relationships, and interactionism Social settings, spatial arrangements, and territories Social settings and a sense of place Settings and spatial arrangements Territories and the self Moving into interaction and interaction on the move Conclusion Notes References NATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT IN INTERACTION Introduction The new ecological paradigm: symbolic interactionism as human exemptionalism?Symbolic interaction, George Herbert Mead, and environmental sociology Emerging themes in interactionist approaches to the environment Constructing and framing nature Environmental identities, lifestyles, and practices Conclusion: the importance of an interactionist approach to the environment Notes References THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF TIME World Culture Organization Encounter Self Conclusion References COLLECTIVE MEMORY Remembering collective memory Collective memory as interactionally produced How people shape collective memory How people use collective memory How people control and shape others’ collective memory Framing, authenticity, and bracketing Processes of collective forgetting Group struggle, politics, and power Conclusion References Interactionism, media and the Internet MEDIA LOGIC, FEAR, AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF TERRORISM The mass media and media logic Mediatization, digital media, and the E-Audience Identity, news, fear, and terrorism Propaganda of fear and terrorism Conclusion References PUBLIC FEAR AND THE MEDIA Ethnographers and ordinary concerns Folklorists and the meanings of jokes and legends Public opinion polls and concern Concern and constructing social problems Drama and the media Cultural doubts The place of fear of sociological thinking References POLICING AND SOCIAL MEDIA Introduction Police and media Social media and the emergence of crime 2.0 Policing in the mediated communication order Conditioning the public Self-promotion The expansion of police social control Conclusion Note References INTERACTIONISM AND ONLINE IDENTITY How has interactionism contributed to understandings of online identity?The Goffmanian approach to self Facework online The challenge of context collapse The Goftmanian contribution and its limits The discursive model of self Discursive model of self in the digital context What has interactionism contributed to understandings of online identity?Combining Goffman and the discursive model Limitations and future directions References PHYSICAL CO-PRESENCE AND DISTINCTIVE FEATURES OF ONLINE INTERACTIONS Introduction Lack of physical co-presence Documenting past conversations: living archives N-adic structure of online disclosures Conclusion References HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MICHAEL JACKSON Dead celebrity and online interaction Introduction Celebrities, living and dead Social media, interactions, and selves Data and analysis Overview of the birthday thread Addressing the dead directly Addressing other fans Discussion and conclusions References MULTIPLAYER ONLINE GAMING Introduction Multiplayer gaming goes online Interfaces: the sites of interaction Making meaning through game UIs Making meaning together From meaning-making to coordinated action and groups Conclusion: multiplayer online gaming goes into the future References New developments in methods SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AS CRITICAL PRAGMATIST INTERACTIONISM Introduction Mapping in situational analysis Critical interactionism Symbolic interactionism and critical social theory in situational analysis Doing critical interactionist analyses with situational analysis Conclusions Notes Bibliography VIDEO IN INTERACTIONIST RESEARCH Video in social research History of the use of video for the analysis of interaction Videography Case study: videographic investigation of the analysis activity in a market research company Example analysis ‘coding experiment’9 Clarification of context knowledge Principles of sequential analysis Connecting the sequential analysis to theoretical concepts Notes References DIGITAL NATURALISM Ethnography in networked worlds Participating: naturalism in the networked age Naturalism and ethnography Space, relations, and physicality Following spaces in online studies Lurking and participation Environments and surroundings: architecture and action “Structures”Constructing structure from below More adaptation, more normal ethnography Notes References ETHICS IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONAL RESEARCH Characteristics of ethical social research in symbolic interactionism Closing the distance between researcher and research participant Acknowledging that the wide range of methods and research settings requires ethical nuances Recognizing the role of the larger social and cultural contexts in the life of research participants Nurturing human dignity Final considerations Notes References Reimagining interactionism TOWARD AN EXPANDED DEFINITION OF SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM Key pragmatist assumptions The implications of interactionism for methods Bridging theory and methods The significance of neoliberalism Expanding the definition of symbolic interactionism Notes References SOME ANTINOMIES OF INTERACTIONISM Process versus structure Meanings as functional or epistemic in character Conclusion Notes References INTERACTIONIST RESEARCH Extending methods, extending fields Introduction Extensions Extending the gaze Extending the ethnographer Extending analysis and representation Conclusion References THE NEW HORIZONS OF SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM Symbolic interactionism’s triumphs and challenges Key concerns and new horizons The self, identity theory, and identity work Problems and directions in studies of the self Emotions, emotion work, and embodiment New horizons for studies of emotion and embodiment The interaction order, social coordination, and social problems New horizons in the study of social coordination and social problems Power, social organization, and social movements New horizons in the interactionist analysis of power, structure, and inequality The future of symbolic interactionism References

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