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Author:   J.I. Hans Bakker (University of Guelph) ,  Wayne Brekhus (University of Missouri) ,  Todd Madigan ,  Paul McLean (Rutgers University)
Publisher:   Bristol University Press
Imprint:   Bristol University Press
ISBN:  

9781529211740

ISBN 10:   1529211743
Pages:   226
Publication Date:   25 May 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  General/trade ,  Professional & Vocational ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination - Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila 1. Marked and Unmarked: A Semiotic Distinction for Concept-Driven Interpretive Sociology - Wayne H. Brekhus 2. Blumer, Weber, Peirce and the Big Tent of Semiotic Sociology: Notes on Interactionism, Interpretivism, and Semiotics - J. I. (Hans) Bakker 3. Collective Agency: A Semiotic View - Rein Raud 4. Theorizing Side-Directed Behavior - Paul McLean and Eunkyung Song 5. Cultural Syntax and the Rules of Meaning Making: A New Paradigm for the Interpretation of Culture - Todd Madigan 6. Memory, Cultural Systems, and Anticipation - Andrea Cossu 7. Stigma Embedded Semiotics: Indexical Dilemmas of HIV across Local and Migrant Networks - Jorge Fontdevila 8. Supremacy or Symbiosis? The Effect of Gendered Ideologies of the Trans- versus Posthuman on Wearable Technology and Biodesign - Elizabeth Wissinger

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""This important book features rich conversations between semiotics and sociology. It advances study of meaning-making central to sociological inquiry by offering tools for analyzing the constitutive nature of signification producing social life."" Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona

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Andrea Cossu is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento. Jorge Fontdevila is Professor of Sociology at California State University, Fullerton.

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