Continual Permutations of Action

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ISBN: 9780202362458 | 0202362450
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Copyright: 11/15/2008

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Richard Bernstein expressed the view that pragmatism was ahead of its time; the same has been true of symbolic interactionism. These two closely related perspectives, one philosophical and the other sociological, place human action at the center of their explanatory schemes. It has not mattered what aspect of social or psychological behavior was under scrutiny. Whether selves, minds, or emotions, or institutions, social structures, or social change, all have been conceptualized as forms of human activity. This view is the simple genius of these perspectives.

Acknowledgments	p. xi
Foreword	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Pragmatism and Chicago Sociological Interaction	p. 1
Chicago Sociology and Action/Interaction	p. 4
Narrative: Autobiographical Detail and Collective Biography	p. 5
A Slow Recognition	p. 11
Assumptions, and Theories of Action	p. 13

Assumptions of a Theory of Action	p. 19
Contrasts	p. 19
Basic Assumptions of a Theory of Action	p. 21
Definitions	p. 22
A List of Assumptions	p. 23
A Final Comment	p. 45
An Interactionist Theory of Action	p. 47
Introductory Remarks	p. 48
Work, A Major Form of Action	p. 51
Trajectory and Related Concepts	p. 52
Subconcepts	p. 54
Additional Concepts	p. 57
A Conditional Matrix	p. 60
Properties and Types, and Local Concepts	p. 65
A Note on Types of Experiences	p. 68
The Usefulness of a Theory of Action	p. 70

A Preliminary Note and Analysis	p. 75
Work and the Intersection of Forms of Action	p. 81
Work as Rational and Its Rationalization	p. 82
History within the Work	p. 84
Routines and Contingencies	p. 85
The Centrality of Interaction for Work	p. 86
Work in Relation to Other Forms of Action	p. 93
Biographical Work and Its Intersections	p. 97
Body, Body Processes, and Interaction	p. 107
Body as a Necessary Condition for Action	p. 108
Body as Agent	p. 110
Body as Object	p. 110
Self-As Subject, As Object-And Body	p. 111
Mental Activity and the Mind	p. 112
Intentional and Unintentional Action in Relation to Body	p. 113
The Body and Temporal Aspects of Interaction	p. 117
Contextual Conditions for Body in Interaction	p. 117
Body-Mind Metaphors	p. 118
Symbolization and the Body	p. 119
Action, Performance, and Appearance	p. 120
Body Processes	p. 121
"Having an Experience"	p. 122
Interaction, Thought Processes, and Biography	p. 127
Thought Processes as Action	p. 129
Thought Processes and Biographical Processes	p. 136
A Case History	p. 138
A Final Note	p. 146
Interacting and Symbolizing	p. 149
Language and Symbolizing	p. 150
Symbols, Symbolizing, and Symbolic Products	p. 151
Motivations, Symbolizations, and Interactions	p. 153
Symbolic Universes	p. 155
Collapse, Loss, and Estrangement from Symbolic Universes	p. 157
Social Worlds and Symbolization	p. 159
A Case Study of Symbolization: Urban Images of Chicago	p. 160
Large-Scale Symbolization	p. 162
Diffuse Collective Symbolization	p. 166
Representation and Misrepresentation in Interaction	p. 169
Difficulties in Interpreting Representations	p. 170
Representation versus "Presentation of Self"	p. 172
Representational Interactions	p. 173
Representing in the Interactions	p. 176
Strategic Interaction	p. 187
The Interplay of Routine and Nonroutine Action	p. 191
Routine Action	p. 193
The Complex Nature of Routines and Routine Actions	p. 194
Routine, Innovation, and Creativity	p. 200
Social Worlds and Society	p. 209
Asserted or Presumed Dominance of Social Class, Race, Gender, and Other Social Units	p. 210
A Social-World Perspective	p. 212
Social-World Processes	p. 215
Social Worlds and the Nation-State	p. 219
Genocide as a Case Illustration	p. 221
Social Worlds and Interaction in Arenas	p. 225
Arenas and Social Worlds	p. 226
Policy Arenas	p. 227
Scientists in Policy Arenas	p. 232
Summary Note	p. 242
Negotiated Order and Structural Ordering	p. 245
The Interactionist Position	p. 246
Negotiated Order	p. 248
Implications Concerning Order and Change	p. 250
Processual Ordering	p. 254
The Necessity of Processual Ordering and the Foundational Role of Matrix Conditions	p. 255
Order-Disorder, Stability-Instability, and Change	p. 258
References	p. 263
Index	p. 275
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