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The charge that symbolic interactionism (SI) is impaired by an astructural bias orbits around a number of sociology's core concerns: structure and agency, methodological individualism and methodological holism, the micro-macro link, the proper procedures to conduct research and when to state and how to test hypotheses and, whether interactionism can address structural concerns such as class, race, gender, power, and oppression. The Astructural Bias: Myth or Reality constitutes a collection of outstanding essays by scholars who address the concern of an astructural bias. Chapters explore the nature of social structure and SI's effectiveness in using the concept. This volume is beneficial for contemporary interactionists and their critics, social theorists, and all students of sociology who are interested in assessing the ability of SI to fully address the grave social circumstances and social problems of an increasingly precarious and dangerous world.
Price: $149.99
Pages: 232
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Series: Studies in Symbolic Interaction
Publication Date:
02 August 2016
ISBN: 9781786350367
Format: Hardcover
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Edited by Gil Richard Musolf, Central Michigan University, USA
The Intellectual Origins of the Debate Over the Astructural Bias - Gil Richard Musolf
Ruinous Reification: The Astructural Bias in Symbolic Interactionism - Patrick J. W. McGinty
Jane Addams, the Chicago Schools of Sociology, and the Emergence of Symbolic Interaction, 1889-1935 - Mary Jo Deegan
Mead’S Field Theory and Its Implications for American Minorities - Norbert Wiley
Overcoming Aprocessual Bias in the Study of Inequality: Parsing the Capitalist Interaction Order - Michael Schwalbe
Symbolic Interaction and Narrative Productions of Meaning in Public Spaces - Donileen R. Loseke
The Persistence of the Power Deficit? Advancing Power Premises in Contemporary Interactionist Theory - Natalia Ruiz-Junco
Astructure/Which Structure?: Rethinking “Astructural Bias” in Symbolic Interaction Through Georges Bataille and His Followers - Steve Bailey
Final Assessments - Gil Richard Musolf
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