Performing Action - Artistry in Human Behaviour and Social Research

List of contents

1. Introduction: Human Behavior as Performance
Part 1: Rhetoric
2. The "Double Plot" in Institutions
3. The Literary Rhetoric of Science: Comedy and Pathos in Drinking-Driver Research
4. Two Genres of Sociology: A Literary Analysis of The American Occupational Structure and Tally's Corner
5. Sport as Story: Form and Content in Agonistic Games
Part 2: Reflexivity
6. The Modernity of Social Movements: Public Roles and Private Parts
7. Social Movements and Social Change: Perspectives of Linearity and Fluidity
8. The Reflexivity of Social Movements: Collective Behavior and Mass Society Theory Revisited
9. The Social Construction of Tradition: An Interactionist View of Social Change
Part 3: Symbolism
10. Secular Symbolism: Studies of Ritual, Ceremony, and the Symbolic Order in Modern Life
11. Nature's Body and the Metaphors of Food and Health
12. The Social Symbolism of Smoking and Health
13. The Social Meanings of Meals: Hierarchy and Equality in the American "Potluck"
14. Conclusion: "Buddy, Can You Paradigm?": The Crisis of Theory in the Welfare State
Index

About the author

Joseph R. Gusfield

Summary

In recent years the social sciences and the humanities have drawn closer to each other in thought and method

Product details

• Authors: Joseph R. Gusfield, Gusfield Joseph R.
• Assisted by: Joseph R. Gusfield (Editor)
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2000
• EAN: 9780765800169
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0016-9
• No. of pages: 295
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Behavioural theory (Behaviourism), Sociology & anthropology, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Sociology and anthropology, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Behaviorism