Critical and Cultural Interactionism: Insights from Sociology and Criminology

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of contributors
Preface and acknowledgements
Introduction: the coming of critical and cultural interactionisms
	The implosion of interactionism
	‘Critical’ and ‘cultural’ interactionism
	The ‘politics’ of interactionism
	About this book
	References
Chapter 1 Misgivings about Goffman: social structure, power and politics in the work of Erving Goffman
	Introduction
	Gouldner’s misgivings about Goffman
	Goffman’s ‘microsociology’: what about the macro social structure?
	Goffman’s ‘interaction rituals’: what about power?
	Goffman’s ‘analytic attitude’: what about politics?
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 2 Upscaling Goffman: four principles of neostructural interactionism
	Introduction
	Interaction orders all the way up
	Upscaling Goffman
	Four principles
	A note on negotiation and improvisation
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 3 A call to a critical interpretive interactionism
	Introduction
	Critical interactionism
	The performance approach
	Interactionist autoethnographer as performer
	The world as performance
	Race and the call to performance
	Hope and acts of activism
	Changing the world
	Moral criticism and taking sides
	Blurring interpretive genres
	Performance pedagogy and the sociological imagination
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 4 Dramaturgical interactionism: ideas of self-presentation, impression management and the staging of social life as a catapult for critique
	Introduction
	Goffman’s dramaturgy as a metaphorical scaffold
	Objections to Goffman’s dramaturgy
	Dramaturgy as a revolt against absurdity
	Dramaturgy as critique/unmasking
	Potentials and limitations of DI
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 5 Critical interactionism: a theoretical bridge for understanding complex human conditions
	Introduction
	Symbolic interactionism: historical and philosophical origins
	Symbolic interactionism: some central ideas
	Critical social theory perspective: historical and philosophical origins
	Critical social theory: some central ideas
	The sub-theory of communicative action
	Some areas of divergence
	Some areas of convergence
	Critical interactionism: a theoretical bridge
	Theoretical applications to populations identified as homeless and criminals
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6 Pacifism, gender and symbolic interactionism
	Introduction
	The birth of theory and practice
	Mead and Dewey as international pacifists, 1894–1914
	Chicago symbolic interactionism, the University of Chicago and World War I, 1914–1921
	Mead and sociology
	Dewey and Chicago symbolic interactionism, 1915–1918
	Scholarship on Mead and Dewey on war
	The female world in Chicago during and after World War I
	The female perspective on international pacifism before and during World War I
	Pacifism and symbolic interactionism post World War I, 1918–1945
	Pacifism and symbolic interactionism, 1937–2018
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Chapter 7 Towards a feminist symbolic interactionism
	Introduction
	From symbolic interactionism to feminist interactionism
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 8 An invitation to ‘radical interactionism’: towards a reorientation of interactionist sociology?
	Introduction
	A maverick’s perspective
	The study of violence as a precursor to RI
	From Mead/Blumer to Park: RI versus SI
	Understanding domination and subjugation in everyday life
	The potentials and problems of RI
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 9 Symbolic interactionism and the Frankfurt School: a critical appraisal
	Introduction
	Culture, history and the rise of theory
	The historical nature of selfhood
	The new subjectivity
	Domination and ‘willing assent’
	Colonising subjectivity
	Betwixt and between social structure and the unconscious
	Language, communication and the self
	The normalisation of the normative
	Conclusion
	Note
	References
Chapter 10 Situational analysis as a critical interactionist method
	Introduction
	What is critical interactionism?
	What is situational analysis?
	Why and how is SA a critical interactionist method?
	Conclusions: SA as a critical interactionist method
	Notes
	References
Chapter 11 Cultural criminology and its incitement for symbolic interactionism: transgression, marginalisation, resistance and media in the wider context of power and culture of late modernity
	Introduction
	Criticising deviance studies
	The development of cultural criminology
	Three foci within cultural criminology
	Conclusion
	Notes
	References
Index