Overview

Symbolic interactionism has a long history in sociology, social psychology, and related social sciences. In this volume, the editors and contributors explain its history, major theoretical tenets and concepts, methods of doing symbolic interactionist work, and its uses and findings in a host of substantive research areas.

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[The authors] have produced a volume that provides a comprehensive overview of symbolic interaction's intellectual origins, its early development . . . and its relationship to kindred theoretical camps. One inescapable conclusion is that symbolic interaction is a far more diffused and varied enterprise today as compared to its early years.--P. Kivisto Choice Reviews Online, May 2004

[The authors] have produced a volume that provides a comprehensive overview of symbolic interaction's intellectual origins, its early development . . . and its relationship to kindred theoretical camps. One inescapable conclusion is that symbolic interaction is a far more diffused and varied enterprise today as compared to its early years.--P. Kivisto Choice Reviews Online May 2004

Author Information

Larry T. Reynolds is emeritus professor of sociology at Central Michigan University. He is a former president of the North Central Sociological Association, the first recipient of the Michigan Sociological Association's Charles Horton Cooley Award, and the first recipient of the ASA Marxist section's Distinguished Career Award. Among his books are The Sociology of Sociology, American Society: A Critical Analysis, and Symbolic Interactionism: Genesis, Varieties, and Criticism. Nancy J. Herman-Kinney is professor of sociology at Central Michigan University. She is editor of Deviance: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach and co-editor (with Larry T. Reynolds) of Symbolic Interactionism: An Introduction to Social Psychology.

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