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List of contents
Introduction: The Coming of Critical and Cultural Interactionisms 1. Misgivings About Goffman: Social Structure, Power and Politics in the Work of Erving Goffman 2. Upscaling Goffman: Four Principles of Neostructural Interactionism 3. A Call to a Critical Interpretive Interactionism 4. Dramaturgical Interactionism: Ideas of Self-Presentation, Impression Management and the Staging of Social Life as a Catapult For Critique 5. Critical Interactionism: A Theoretical Bridge for Understanding Complex Human Conditions 6. Pacifism, Gender and Symbolic Interactionism 7. Towards a Feminist Symbolic Interactionism 8. An Invitation to ‘Radical Interactionism’: Towards a Reorientation of Interactionist Sociology? 9. Symbolic Interactionism and The Frankfurt School: A Critical Appraisal 10. Situational Analysis as a Critical Interactionist Method 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
About the author
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the co-author of The Social Thought of Erving Goffman, the editor of Postmortal Society; Deconstructing Death; The Poetics of Crime; and Beyond Bauman: Creative Excursions and Critical Engagements, and the co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman; Encountering the Everyday; The Transformation of Modernity; Utopia: Social Theory and the Future; Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences; and Liquid Criminology.
Summary
This book brings together critical social theories and microsociological approaches to reveal the critical and cultural potentials in interactionism – the chapters arguing that far from being oriented towards the status quo, interactionism in fact contains a critical and cultural edge.
