Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination

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Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
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Series Editors’ Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology—On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
	Signification as self-referential differences
	Signification as reflexive indexicalities
	Context and interpretation, habit and power, culture and cognition
		Context-making and indexical interpretation
		Habit formation and power
		Format of culture and cognition
	Outline of the chapters
	References
1 Marked and Unmarked: A Semiotic Distinction for Concept-driven Interpretive Sociology
	Why markedness and unmarkedness matter for interpretive sociology
		Sociocultural cognitive defaults and the exercise of social power
		Markedness and unmarkedness in the reproduction of social inequalities
		Unmarked power and epistemic exclusion: rethinking theory and researcher standpoint
	Power, privilege and identity
		Unmarked and marked identity attributes and intersectionality
		Perception: marked and unmarked risks and the semiotic asymmetry of cultural attention
	Conclusion
	References
2 Blumer, Weber, Peirce, and the Big Tent of Semiotic Sociology: Notes on Interactionism, Interpretivism, and Semiotics
	A new synthesis: incorporating Blumer, Weber, and Peirce
		Symbols and interactions
		Step one: Blumer 1969 as anchor point
		Step two: American symbolic interactionism (ASI)
		Step three: interactionism in general (IG)
		Step four: Weberian interpretive sociology (ITM, CHS)
		Step five: Peirce’s semiotics
		An old idea in new packaging
		Lifting the veils as a semiotic trope
	Conclusion
	References
3 Collective Agency: A Semiotic View
	Social entities
	Agents: individual/collective
	Language and the social fabric
	The collective subject
	Conclusion
	References
4 Theorizing Side-directed Behavior
	Some empirical evidence
		De Waal on chimpanzee politics
		McFarland on classroom dynamics
		Bullying dynamics in schools
		Workplace dynamics
		Digital communication
	Developing a theoretical framework
		Simmel on triads and secrecy
		White on switchings
	How to proceed
		Networks
		Semiotics
	Conclusion
	References
5 Cultural Syntax and the Rules of Meaning-making: A New Paradigm for the Interpretation of Culture
	Introduction
	Semantics
	Structure
	Syntax
	The rules of meaning-making
	Conclusion
	References
6 Memory, Cultural Systems, and Anticipation
	Prologue (Springsteen and I)
	Introduction
	“Memory” and the semiotic space
	Semiotic ontologies, selectability, and the future
	The shapes of the future
	Conclusions
	References
7 Stigma-embedded Semiotics: Indexical Dilemmas of HIV across Local and Migrant Networks
	Stigma against gay and bisexual men
	Condomless sex semiotics
	Social context from indexicality and metacommunication
		Indexicality
		Metacommunication
	Silence indexing resistance to stigma9
		Code of silence
		Pragmatics of serosorting dilemmas
		Metapragmatic awareness
	Conclusion
	References
8 Supremacy or Symbiosis? The Effect of Gendered Ideologies of the Transhuman versus Posthuman on Wearable Technology and Biodesign
	Wearable tech and biodesign
	Methods and messy taxonomies
	I’m not in marketing! Gendered assumptions of expertise
	The visual and the haptic
	A bizarre assault … it’s really sick, especially when we’re talking about body data
	The posthuman
	Cogs, machines, and circuits versus bodies, guts, and insides
	Conclusion: Why semiotics?
	References
Index