Critical and Cultural Interactionism: Insights from Sociology and Criminology

ISBN-13: 9780367671426 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 238 str.

Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Opis

This book brings together critical social theories and microsociological approaches to reveal the critical and cultural potentials in interactionism – the chapters arguing that far from being oriented towards the status quo, interactionism in fact contains a critical and cultural edge.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Coming of Critical and Cultural Interactionisms  1. Misgivings About Goffman: Social Structure, Power and Politics in the Work of Erving Goffman  2. Upscaling Goffman: Four Principles of Neostructural Interactionism  3. A Call to a Critical Interpretive Interactionism  4. Dramaturgical Interactionism: Ideas of Self-Presentation, Impression Management and the Staging of Social Life as a Catapult For Critique  5. Critical Interactionism: A Theoretical Bridge for Understanding Complex Human Conditions  6. Pacifism, Gender and Symbolic Interactionism  7. Towards a Feminist Symbolic Interactionism  8. An Invitation to ‘Radical Interactionism’: Towards a Reorientation of Interactionist Sociology?  9. Symbolic Interactionism and The Frankfurt School: A Critical Appraisal  10. Situational Analysis as a Critical Interactionist Method  11. Cultural Criminology and its Incitement for Symbolic Interactionism: Transgression, Marginalisation, Resistance and Media in the Wider Context of Power and Culture of Late Modernity

O autorze

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the co-author of The Social Thought of Erving Goffman, the editor of Postmortal Society; Deconstructing Death; The Poetics of Crime; and Beyond Bauman: Creative Excursions and Critical Engagements, and the co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman; Encountering the Everyday; The Transformation of Modernity; Utopia: Social Theory and the Future; Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences; and Liquid Criminology.