Tag Archives: ethnography

New Article: “Hard Work and Fun: Collective Online Interaction in a Case of Photo Fraud” by Veronika Burcar Alm, Erik Hannerz, and David Wästerfors #sssi #sociology #online #interaction @WileySociology https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.677

Posted on December 5, 2023 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

We have just published Veronika Burcar Alm, Erik Hannerz, and David Wästerfors’ article “Hard Work and Fun: Collective Online Interaction in a Case of Photo Fraud” on Early View of Symbolic Interaction. In their article, the authors examine interaction in an online … Continue reading →

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New Issue: Symbolic Interaction Vol.46 No. 4 #sssi #emca @WileySociology

Posted on November 30, 2023 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

We have just published the latest issue of Symbolic Interaction. ORIGINAL ARTICLES Can’t Buy Me Love: Gift-Giving Among Members of Criminal Organizations Shirly Bar-Lev,  Michal Morag Gender Category and Gender Status: A Critical Distinction Jesse Kolber   The Power of a 😉: … Continue reading →

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New Article: “The Spirituality of Carceral Citizenship: ‘Making your Test Your Testimony'” by Michael Hallett https//doi.org/10.1002/symb.669 #sssi #sociology #prison #identitywork @WileySociology

Posted on September 14, 2023 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

We have just published Michael Hallett’s article “The Spirituality of Carceral Citizenship: ‘Making your Test Your Testimony’” on Early view of Symbolic Interaction. The paper deepens understanding of how religious narrative labor is performed by ex-offenders enduring carceral citizenship, arguing … Continue reading →

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New Issue Out! Symbolic Interaction (@sijournal) Vol. 46 No.2 @WileySociology #sssi #emca #sociology

Posted on May 31, 2023 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Symbolic Interaction Volume 46, number 2 Table of Content ARTICLES Perverts or Heroes in the Post-Socialist “Cold War”: Formula Stories of Lesbian/Bisexual/Queer Women and Transgender People in Ukrainian Media Yuliia Soroka,  S. L. Crawley,  Olga Dzyuba,  Ashley Green Corporeal Interactions in VRChat: Situational … Continue reading →

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New Book Review: Seth Abrutyn discussed Gary Alan Fine and Tim Hallett’s “Group Life: An Invitation” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.643 @WileySociology @seth_abrutyn #sssi #emca #sociology

Posted on April 18, 2023 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Over the past 40 years or so, Gary Alan Fine has developed his theoretical and empirical studies of “Group Life”. These studies have been very influential in interactionism as they provide substantial accounts of social relationships in baseball teams (Fine … Continue reading →

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New Book Review: Casey Scheibling (@cscheibling) on Steven M. Ortiz’s “The Sports Marriage” #sssi #sociology #sport @sociologylens http://doi.org/10.1002/symb.609

Posted on August 24, 2022 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

We have just published Casey Scheibling’s review of Steven M. Ortiz’s book “The Sports Marriage: Who makes it Work”. Scheibling suggests that “[A]s a platform for future scholars, The Sport Marriage opens up many new avenues to interrogate the interweaving … Continue reading →

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Review of Hannah Wohl’s book “Bound by Creativity” #SSSI #sociology https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.578 @sociologylens

Posted on November 1, 2021 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

There is a long-stanidng interest in the arts and creativity within Symbolic Interactionism. With her book “Bound by Creativity: How Contemporary Art is Created and Judged” Hannah Wohl contributes to this body of work. In his review of the book, … Continue reading →

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New Article: “Negotiating Medical Authority: Shared Decision‐Making in the ICU” by Jason Rodriquez https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.514 #ethnography #care #medicalsociology #sssi cc @sociologylens

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Symbolic interactionism has a long-standing interest in health care and interaction in hospitals. In his article “Negotiating Medical Authority: Shared Decision-Making in the ICU” Jason Rodriquez shows the interactional strategies ICU clinicians as a team used to bring family surrogates’ … Continue reading →

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Review Essay by Anthony Puddephatt discussing Braden T. Leap’s book “Gone Goose. The Remaking of an American town in the Age of Climate Change” #sssi #environment #climate cc @sociologylens

Posted on September 11, 2020 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

In light of the pandemic and the forthcoming election in the USA discussions of climate change and its impact on all our lives seems often forgotten. Anthony Puddephatt’s review essay discussing Braden T. Leap’s book “Gone Goose. The Remaking of … Continue reading →

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More books to Review: Innovative Ethnographies #sssi

Posted on February 10, 2015 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Phillip Vannini (Royal Roads University) gave the 2014 Distinguished Lecture at the SSSI Conference in San Francisco. In his talk Phillip presented findings from his research on people living off the grid in Canada. This research now has been published … Continue reading →

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New article: “Fragments of Modernization: Domestic Spaces Indicating Traditional Dialects in a Modern Speech” by Ozge Merzali Celikoglu

Posted on July 22, 2014 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Ozge Merzali Celikoglu’s article “Fragments of Modernization” that was just published on Early View examines recent changes in Turkish domestic spaces and in particular the increasing featuring of lace that can be found in both ‘traditional’ and ‘modern’ domestic settings. … Continue reading →

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Applied Ethnography – Call for Book Reviewer

Posted on July 8, 2014 by Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction - Blog

Joe Kotarba’s recent article “Symbolic Interaction and Applied Research” in Symbolic Interaction is very timely and coincides with the publication of a number of very interesting applied ethnographies. The field of applied ethnography of course is not a new area … Continue reading →

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