Semiotic Sociology

Acknowledgements
Praise for Semiotic Sociology
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures and Tables
Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards Semiotic Sociology and Social Theory
	References
Chapter 2: Synthesis of Semiology, Semiotics and Phenomenological Sociology
	Structuralist Semiology
	Pragmatism
	Phenomenological Sociology
	Conclusion: Implications for Cultural and Social Theory
	References
Chapter 3: Economy and Society in Semiotic Institutionalism
	Structural-Functionalist Economic Sociology
		Parsons: The AGIL Scheme of the Social System
		Economy and Society in Habermas’s Theory of Communicative Action: System and the Lifeworld
		What Is Wrong with Parsons and Habermas?
	The Challenge of Institutionalism
		Institutionalism in Economics
		Pragmatist and Phenomenological Institutionalism
	Towards a Synthesis: Economy and Society in Semiotic Institutionalism
		Semiotic Institutionalism
		Semiotic Interpretation of the System–Lifeworld Scheme
	Conclusion: How Does Semiotic Institutionalism Overcome the Limitations of the Structural-Functionalist Approach?
	References
Chapter 4: Power and Signification in Neostructuralism
	Conceptions of Power
		Resource Theories: Weber and Parsons
		The Structural Approach: Foucault
		The Neostructuralist Approach
		Understanding the Four Approaches as a Scale
	Applying the Scale of Power Conceptions
		Interpreting Everyday Conversation Neostructuralistically
		Big Case Comparison and Dispositifs in Historical Sociology
		The Need for Less Complex Approaches
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 5: Modernity and the Intersemiotic Condition
	Intersemiosis: Mystery Train and Michael Jackson
	Modernity as Institutional Tendencies
	Culture as Semiosis
	The Postmodernity Debate and Sociological Analysis of Culture
	Postmodernity or Just Modernity and Intersemiotic Condition?
	References
Chapter 6: Modernity and the Articulation of the Gender System
	Articulation and Social Sciences
	Gender as a Biologically Motivated Cultural System
	Gender and Modernity: The Levels of Articulation
	Gender and Modernity: Order, Conflict and Chaos
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 7: The Power of Institutions: The Case of Gendered Agency
	Interpreting Agency: Biology and Rational Choice
	An Institutionalist Reinterpretation: Regulations and Path Dependency
	Bounded Rationality: Normative and Cultural-Cognitive Institutionalism
	Cultural Institutionalism Reinterpreted: Discursive and Habitual Institutionalism
	The Cumulated Scheme Applied to Gender
	Conclusion and Future Tasks
	References
Chapter 8: From Goffman to Semiotic Sociology
	Framing Goffman
	Frame 1: Dramaturgic Sociology
	Frame 2: Micro-revolution and Co-presence
	Frame 3: Interaction Order and Ritual
	Frame 4: Self and Interaction Contingency
	Frame 5: Frame Analysis and Presence
	Goffman and Semiotic Sociology
	References
Chapter 9: Conclusion: Semiotic Sociology in the Field of Social Theory
	Semiotic Sociology and Social Ontology in Current Social Theory
	Semiotic Sociology, Institutions and the Material Turn
	Hermeneutics of Suspicion: Marx, Freud and the Frankfurt School
	References
Author Index
Subject Index