The astructural bias charge myth or reality?

The charge that symbolic interactionism (SI) is impaired by an astructural bias orbits around a number of sociology's core concerns: structure and agency, methodological individualism and methodological holism, the micro-macro link, the proper procedures to conduct research and when to state an...

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Other Authors Musolf, Gil Richard, 1951-
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2016.
SeriesStudies in symbolic interaction ; 46.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781786350350
ISSN0163-2396 ;
DOI10.1108/S0163-2396201646
Physical Description1 online resource (xi, 217 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Ruinous reification: the astructural bias in symbolic interactionism / Patrick McGinty
  • The intellectual origins of the debate over the astructural bias / Gil Musolf
  • Jane Addams, the Chicago schools of sociology, and the emergence of symbolic interaction, 1889-1935 / Mary Deegan
  • Mead's field theory and its implications for American minorities / Norbert Wiley
  • Overcoming aprocessual bias in the study of inequality: parsing the capitalist interaction order / Michael Schwalbe
  • Symbolic interaction and narrative productions of meaning in public spaces / Donileen Loseke
  • The persistence of the power deficit? Advancing power premises in contemporary interactionist theory / Natalia Ruiz-Junco
  • Astructure/which structure?: Rethinking "astructural bias" in symbolic interaction through Georges Bataille and his followers / Steve Bailey
  • Final assessments / Gil Musolf
  • Alcoholism and the Simpsons: connecting symbolic interactionism and pastiche / Michael Katovich, Sarah Rosenthal Vaughan.