The Astructural Bias Charge
Myth or Reality?
Published on 2. August 2016
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-1-78635-036-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
493 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78635-036-7 (9781786350367)
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08/2016
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Persons
Edited by Gil Richard Musolf, Central Michigan University, USA
Content
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
NEW INTERPRETIVE WORKS
Alcoholism and the Simpsons: Connecting Symbolic Interactionism and Pastiche - Michael A. Katovich and Sarah Rosenthal Vaughan
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
NEW INTERPRETIVE WORKS
Alcoholism and the Simpsons: Connecting Symbolic Interactionism and Pastiche - Michael A. Katovich and Sarah Rosenthal Vaughan