We have just published Nathan W. DeVenne’s review of Dennis Waskul and Marc Eaton’s book “The Supernatural in Society, Culture, and History’ on Early View of Symbolic Interaction. DeVenne states that Wasku and Eaton’s book “offers a robust interdisciplinary approach to researching the supernatural”.
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A video abstract is available at https://youtu.be/IK_UiGzWT_E
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 rationality”
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“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.
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We have just published Emily Hofstetter and Jessica Robles article “Manipulation in Board Game Interactions: Being a Sporting Player” on Early View of the journal. The authors use an approach used across symbolic interactionism, discursive psychology and conversation and analysis to reveal how players negotiate what is acceptable manipulation in board games. The paper comes with a wonderful video abstract.
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The environment is often discussed in macrosociological terms. Bradley H. Brewster and Antony Puddephatt’s edited collection “Microsociological Perspectives for Environmental Sociology” “demonstrates how micro‐perspectives address matters previously within the domain of macro‐analytic research, and how such analysis can inform theory and politics—a welcome contribution to environmental sociology.”
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There is plenty of interest in music and music related topics within interactionist sociology. Save for the large amount of research articles and book reviews in Symbolic Interaction we have the SSSI Music blog where J Sumerau and others explore music with an interactionist lens. Whilst music is largely seen in the context of culture and leisure as well as occasionally in the context of work there is a growing interest in the relationship between music and wellbeing. With regard to this latter discussion Lee Blackstone (SUNY Old Westbury) who recently published “The Aural and Moral Idylls of “Englishness” and Folk Music” in Symbolic Interaction“, has reviewed three books for our journal, “Sounding out Music and Health: Transforming Selfhood and Social Life through Musicking”:
Music Asylums: Wellbeing Through Music in Everyday Life. By Tia DeNora (Routledge, 2016)
How Music Helps in Music Therapy and Everyday Life. By Gary Ansdell (Routledge, 2016)
Musical Pathways inRecovery: Community Music Therapy and Mental Wellbeing. By Gary Ansdell and Tia DeNora, with Sarah Wilson (Routledge, 2016)
Blackstone writes that the “arc of the trilogy reinforces the notion that music may lead to momentous change—not necessarily in some mystical fashion, but rather in the here-and-now of lived experience”, and then asks “how does music lend itself to transformative moments, not only in a therapeutic environment, but also in everyday life?”. Whilst the three books do not take an explicitly interactionist perspective Blackstone manages to show not only how their overarching themes relate to (symbolic) interactionism, but also to argue that an “immersion into an ecological approach toward health and wellness provides a broader analytical palette to evaluate the interrelationship between the construction of individual selves and social life.”
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