Symbolic interaction and ethnographic research : intersubjectivity and the study of human lived experience /
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| Author / Creator: | Prus, Robert C. |
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| Imprint: | Albany : State University of New York Press, c1996. |
| Description: | xxiv, 301 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2331465 |
Table of Contents:
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Studying Human Lived Experience
- An Introduction to the Intersubjective Enterprise
- Social Science and an Introduction to the Postitivist-Interpretivist Debate
- Symbolic Interaction and the Study of Human Lived Experience
- Ethnographic Research: The Quest for Intimate Familiarity
- Overview of the Volume
- 2. Interpretive Roots
- Experience as Intersubjective Reality
- The Hermeneutic (Interpretive) Tradition
- Wilhelm Dilthey: Interpretation as Intersubjectivity
- Georg Simmel: Form and Content
- Max Weber: Emphasizing and Obscuring Verstehen Sociology
- Wilhelm Wundt: Intersubjective Dimensions of Folk Psychology
- American Pragmatism: Practical Accomplishment
- Early Interactionism: Theory and Methods
- Charles Horton Cooley: Language, Process, and Sympathetic Introspection
- George Herbert Mead: Mind, Self, and Society in Action
- Conclusion
- 3. Contemporary Variants Of The Interpretive Tradition
- Symbolic Interaction et al
- Chicago-Style Symbolic Interaction: Herbert Blumer
- Other Variants of the Interpretive Approach
- The Iowa School of Symbolic Interaction
- Dramaturgical Sociology
- Labeling Theory
- Phenomenological Sociology
- The Philosophical Underpinnings of Everyday Life
- Reality Construction Theory
- Ethnomethodology
- Structuration Theory
- The New (Constructionist) Sociology of Science
- 4. The Ethnographic Research Tradition
- Encountering the Other
- Historical and Anthropological Dimensions of Ethnographic Research
- Ethnography as a Sociological Venture: Field Research at the University of Chicago
- Albion Small: Organizer and Facilitator
- William Isaac Thomas (and Florian Znaniecki): The Polish Peasant
- George Herbert Mead: Symbolic Significances of the Human Group
- Ellsworth Faris: Ethnographer in the Shadows
- Robert Ezra Park and Ernest Burgess: Exploring the City
- Student Ethnographies: Learning by Doing
- Chicago Sociology in Transition
- Everett Hughes: Sociologist at Work
- Herbert Blumer: Providing the Conceptual Base
- Carrying On the Tradition
- 5. Generic Social Process
- Transcontextualizing Ethnographic Inquiry
- Generic Social Processes and the Study of Human Group Life
- The Chicago Influence
- Other Statements on Generic Social Processes
- Achieving Ethnographic Transcontextuality
- Acquiring Perspectives
- Achieving Identity
- Being Involved
- Doing Activity
- Experiencing Relationships
- Forming and Coordinating Associations
- Conclusions
- 6. Experiencing Emotionality
- Affectivity as a Generic Social Process
- Emotionality: Interactionist Dimensions
- Learning to Define Emotional Experiences
- Developing Techniques for Expressing and Controlling Emotional Experiences
- Experiencing Emotional Episodes and Entanglements
- Emotionality and the Ethnographer Self
- Sustaining the Ethnographic Focus
- Ethnographic Research and Generic Social Processes
- Managing and Expressing Emotionality in the Field
- 7. Betwixt Positivist Proclivities And Postmodernist Propensities
- Pursuing the Pragmatics of Presence through the Ethnographic Other
- Positivist/Structuralist Social Science: Premises, Pursuits, and Pitfalls
- Positivist Physical Science and Social Science Orientations
- Positivist Dilemmas: Epistemological Challenges and Motivated Resistances
- Synthesis and Reconciliations: Feasibilities and Practical Limitations
- Postmodernist Propensities: Nietzschean Skepticism, Linguistic Reductionism, and Mixed Agendas
- Postmodernist Methodological Resurrectionism: Representing and Obscuring the Ethnographic Other
- 8. Obdurate Reality And The Intersubjective Other
- The Problematics of Representation and the Privilege of Presence (with Lorne Dawson)
- On the Nature of "Obdurate Reality"
- The Problematics of Representation and the "Privilege of Presence"
- References
- Index of Names
- Index of Terms