Category Archives: sociology
CfP – Special Issue – “Celebrating and Interrogating the Blumerian Legacy” #sssi #SymbolicInteraction
Special Issue Call For Papers Jacqueline Low and Gary Bowden (Eds.) Celebrating and Interrogating the Blumerian Legacy Deadline to Submit Papers: September 30, 2019 As we mark the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Blumer’s (1969) pivotal work … Continue reading
On Early View: Katrina Kimport ” Pregnant Women’s Experiences of Crisis Pregnancy Centers” #sssi #sociology
We have just published Katrina Kimport‘s article “Pregnant Women’s Experiences of Crisis Pregnancy Centers: When Abortion Stigmatization Succeeds and Fails” in which she examines interviews with 25 women in the United States who visited crisis pregnancy centers (CPCs)—antiabortion organizations that … Continue reading
New Article (Open ACCESS) Mark Perry et al. “Visual Narrative and Temporal Relevance: Segueing Instant Replay into Live Broadcast TV” #sssi #emca #sociology
In symbolic interactionism there is a long-standing interest in the media and their production. In this journal we have published a large number of articles by renowned authors like David Altheide and Joel Best and more recently Chris Schneider and … Continue reading
CfP – ‘The Senses in Social Interaction’ – Symbolic Interaction #sssi #sociology
Special Issue – The Senses in Social Interaction Co-edited by Will Gibson (University College London, Institute of Education) & Dirk vom Lehn (King’s college London) Deadline: August, 25th 2019 Symbolic Interaction invites submissions for a Special Issue exploring the … Continue reading
New Article by M.J. Ghidina “Finding God in Grain” #sssi #sociology #religion
We have just published Marcia J. Ghidina’s article “Finding God in Grain: Crop Circles, Rationality, and the Construction of Spiritual Experience” on Early View of Symbolic interaction. Ghidina explores how “believers define crop circles as spiritual using subjective and normative … Continue reading
New book review explores “a tension between unity and pluralistic social movements” – JL Johnson on R. Dunn’s “Toward a Pragmatist Sociology” #sssi #sociology
“Robert G. Dunn’s Toward a Pragmatist Sociology demonstrates John Dewey’s influence on sociological imagination, arguing that a synthesis of Deweyan and Millsian social science could regain cultural relevance for sociology.” We have published J.L. Johnson’s review on Early view. SSSI … Continue reading
New Article: “No Room for Respectability” by Lily Liang #sssi #boundary-work #sociology
We have just published Lily Liang’s article “No Room for Respectability: Boundary Work in Interaction at a Shanghai Rental” in Symbolic Interaction (Vol.42(2). SSSI members can download the artice by clicking the image below. To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction … Continue reading
