The Modern Stranger
On Language and Membership
1st Edition
Published on 2. November 2011
VIII, 182 pages
978-3-11-087289-7 (ISBN)
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Content
- Intro
- Introduction
- Chapter I: Sociology and "The Stranger"
- 1. Sociology and "The Stranger"
- 1.1. "The Stranger" as an Ideal Type
- 1.2. "The Stranger" as Stranger
- 1.3. Simmel's Stranger
- 2. Stranger as "Marginal Man"
- 2.1. Park: Migration and Emancipation
- 2.2. Stonequist: Internationalism and Ambivalence
- 2.3. Hughes: Status Conflict and Inequality
- 2.4. Siu: Ethnocentrism and Sojourney
- 2.5. Rose: Small-town Duality
- 2.6. Limits of the Marginal Man
- 3. Stranger as Newcomer
- 3.1. Wood: First Encounters
- 3.2. Schutz: Reflexive Crisis
- 4. Toward the Modern Stranger
- Chapter II: The Social Organization of Strangeness: Toward a Redefinition of Home
- 1. The Lonely Crowd
- 1.1. Tradition-direction
- 1.2. Inner-direction
- 1.3. Other-direction
- 1.4. Communicative Normalization
- 2. Stranger as Automation and Home as Prison: The Dilemma of Authoritarian Man
- 3. The Homeless Mind: Home as Everywhere and Nowhere
- 4. A Nation of Strangers: Home as Possibility
- 5. The Migratory Elite: Education for Strangeness
- 6. The Organization Man: Adaptability as a Way of Life
- 6.1. Adaptability as a Way of Life
- 7. Protean Man: Home as Myth
- 8. A Redefinition: Home as a Moveable Feast
- Chapter III: On Being in Between: Observation and Marginality
- 1. In Between
- 1.1. Mapping
- 2. Observation and Marginality
- 2.1. Habitus
- 2.2. Going Native
- 2.3. Note-taking
- 3. Through the Looking Glass
- 4. The Trained Observer as the Modern Stranger
- Chapter IV: The Language of Membership
- 1. The Search for Authentic Experience: The Publicity of Privacy
- 2. Reflexivity and Reflectivity : The Image of Self in the Broken Mirror
- 3. The Language of Membership
- 3.1. The Semiological Chain
- 3.2. Communicative Competence: Recognition and Negotiation
- Chapter V: Toward the Modern Stranger
- 1. Implications
- 1.1. Empirical Issues
- 1.2. Theoretical Implications
- 2. Conclusion
- Appendix A: Some Political Implications of the Modern Stranger
- References
- Index
