Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 31

Studies in symbolic interaction......Page 1
List of Contributors......Page 4
The inauguration of the ‘‘Blue-Ribbon Papers’’ series......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
John Dewey......Page 12
George Herbert Mead......Page 14
Charles Peirce......Page 20
William James......Page 22
Dialogical......Page 26
Egalitarian......Page 27
Social Sciences......Page 28
Family Resemblance......Page 29
Humanism......Page 30
References......Page 31
Introduction......Page 33
The scientific self......Page 38
The organic nature of the scientific institution......Page 42
The social nature of scientific progress......Page 45
Was Mead a relativist?......Page 48
Emergence and innovation in scientific growth......Page 53
In perspective......Page 56
Notes......Page 58
References......Page 59
The controversy of mind over matter: Mead’s solution and applications from neuroscience......Page 63
G. H. Mead’s Concept of Emergence......Page 64
Roger Sperry’s Biosocial Concept of Emergence......Page 65
On the Qualitative Difference between Mind Over Matter......Page 66
Mind as Exerting a True Mental Force Over its Parts......Page 67
Minded distance as a lever for control in therapeutic practices......Page 68
The Tale of the Silver Springs Monkeys......Page 69
Nursing the Self Back into the Driver’s Seat in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder......Page 72
Program Implementation......Page 74
Changing the Circuits of the Brain in Depression......Page 75
Conclusions......Page 77
Notes......Page 79
References......Page 81
Introduction......Page 83
Action......Page 86
Truth......Page 88
Self......Page 91
Society......Page 94
Individual Agency......Page 97
Conclusion......Page 98
Notes......Page 99
References......Page 100
Considering violentization toward the societal scale......Page 103
Introduction and context......Page 104
Lonnie Athens’ Key Theories......Page 107
Violentization......Page 108
Phantom Communities......Page 118
Communities and Violence......Page 120
Building upon Athens: Rhodes and others......Page 123
Critiques of Athens and Rhodes......Page 125
Discussion and conclusions......Page 130
References......Page 133
How I became a criminologist......Page 135
References......Page 143
Quilts and everyday life......Page 145
Everyday life and sociology......Page 146
The everyday and the arts......Page 148
Jean Ray Laury and everyday life......Page 153
Conclusion......Page 159
References......Page 161
Dialogics of discomfort: Race, roles, and performance......Page 163
Introduction......Page 164
A Eulogy for MyBuddy......Page 166
Dialogic discomfort......Page 167
Shelter from the storm......Page 169
Conspicuous silence......Page 171
Relocating the epiphany......Page 173
References......Page 175
Jesuits, indians, and the legend of ondessonk......Page 182
Scene one: camp ondessonk, ozark, IL......Page 184
Scene two: camp ondessonk, the grotto......Page 185
Utter Silence......Page 187
Scene four: camp ondessonk, garnier treehouses, ‘‘the night game’’......Page 188
Interlude......Page 189
Scene five: camp ondessonk, the lodge ceremony......Page 191
Concluding remarks......Page 194
References......Page 195
Introduction......Page 196
From The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills to the dramaturgical approach by Erving Goffman......Page 198
Postmodern performances and cultural studies by Norman Denzin......Page 200
Notes......Page 201
References......Page 202
Spartan superhunks and Persian monsters: Responding to truth and identity as determined by Hollywood......Page 204
References......Page 216