At the heart of the sociological enterprise is the idea that human behavior is the product of community life; that people's behaviors cannot be reduced to individual properties. A major task facing sociologists ( and social scientists more generally), revolves around the study of the accomplishment of intersubjectivity; that is, indicating how people become social entities and how they attend to one another and the products of human endeavor on a day-to-day basis.

Taking issue with both positivist and postmodernist orientations to the social sciences, the approach taken here insists that...

Despite the considerable attention given to 'power' by foundational sources such as Machiavelli, Hobbs, Weber, Durkheim, and Marx, and those social theorists who have built on their works, surprisingly little attention has been given to the study of power as an enacted feature of community life. Locating power more directly within a symbolic interactionist framework, Beyond the Power Mystique not only enables scholars to permeate much of the mystique shrouding power but, explicitly viewing power as intersubjective accomplishment, the material presented here fosters a research agenda that is...

Ethnografie hat weiterhin den Geruch von Abenteuer. Der vorliegende Band bietet eine Heranfuhrung an die ethnografische Haltung und Praxis, mit der das immersive Abenteuer der Feldarbeit und das akademische Abenteuer der Schreibarbeit zusammen bestritten werden konnen.
Als von Interaktionisten verfasste Einfuhrung bietet er Einsteigern eine klassische, zuruck zu den Chicagoer Wurzeln fuhrende Praxis an, in der Intersubjektivitat, Offenheit, Unwagbarkeit, Aufs-Feld-Einlassen und kreative Neuschopfung aus dem Feld heraus betont werden. Dabei ist er theoretisch fundiert und feldpraktisch...