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Book Review: David Nock discusses “Immediacy: Our Ways of Coping in Everyday Life” by Fred Emil Katz #sssi #sociology https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.682 @WileySociology

We have just published David Nock’s review of “Immediacy: Our Ways of Coping in Everyday Life” By Fred Emil Katz. Nock suggests that Katz “presents a number of new concepts to help us in this investigation. The book illustrates these concepts in … Continue reading

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New Review Essay: Joel Best “Thinking about Unsettling Times” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.679 #sssi #crisis #history #pandemic #panic #fear @WileySociology

We have published a Review Essay by Joel Best that members of SSSI can download by clicking HERE or the image below.  To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from $38 (£30) please click HERE

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New Review Essay: Joel Best “Thinking about Unsettling Times” #sssi #crisis #history #pandemic #panic #fear

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

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 book review: K. Neil Jenkings discusses “The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects”, edited by Douglas W. Maynard & John Heritage https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.676 #sssi #emca #sociology #ethnomethodology #Garfinkel @WileySociology

We have just published K. Neil Jenkings’ review of “The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects” edited by Douglas W. Maynard & John Heritage. In his review, Jenkings provides a critical discussion more of the composition of the book than of the individual … Continue reading

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New Book Review: Brian Monahan discusses Jared Del Rosso’s book “Denial: How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems” #sssi #sociology

We have just published Brian Monahan‘s review of Jared Del Rosso‘s book “Denial: How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems“. Monahan writes that “[T]he central argument of this book is that we regularly encounter personal embarrassments, inconvenient facts, and … Continue reading

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New Book Review: Alexandra H. Vinson (@ahvinson) discusses Douglas W. Maynard and Jason Turowetz’s book “Autistic Intelligence” #sssi #emca #sociology https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.654 @WileySociology

For some years now, Douglas W. Maynard and Jason Turowetz have been working on the testing for and diagnosing of autism. Their research builds on Maynard’s previews ethnomethodological and conversation analytic research on standard tests, for example, the testing of … Continue reading

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

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: Kenya Massey discusses Ruha Benjamin’s “Viral Justice” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.648 @WileySociology @ruha9 #sssi #sociology #race

Over the past few years, Ruha Benjamin has become known for her work on the relationship between innovation and inequity, knowledge and power, race and citizenship, health and justice. In 2022, she published her book “Viral Justice” in which according … Continue reading

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New Article: “Group Styles of Justice or Service: How Ticket Inspectors Manage Contested Citizen Encounters” by Friis Camilla Bank https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.617 @sociologylens

We have just published Friis Camilla Bank’s article “Group Styles of Justice or Service: How Ticket Inspectors Manage Contested Citizen Encounters” on Early View of Symbolic Interaction. SSSI Members can download the article by clicking the image below or HERE. To join … 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

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 Issue out: Symbolic Interaction (@sijournal), vol. 44/3 #sssi #sociology @sociologylens

ARTICLES “It’s Not a Pattern of Behavior”: Proxy Deflection of Eviction Stigma by Community Care Providers Garrett L. Grainger Pages: 479-503 PDF Performance of Agency in Real-Life Encounters: Turning Unequal Power and Structural Constraint into Collaboration Nanna Mik-Meyer, Mark Haugaard Pages: 504-532 PDF … Continue reading

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Looking for Book reviewers #sssi @sijournal #sociology

I have a few books that I’d like to have reviewed in the journal over the next few months: Ira J. Cohen. 2015. Solitary Action on our own in Everyday Life. Oxford/New York: OUP. Paul Atkinson. 2014. For Ethnography/ London: … Continue reading

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Introduction to Special Section on ‘Space and Time’ #sssi #sociology #space #time

There has been long-standing, yet not consistent, interest in ‘Space’ and ‘Time’ in sociology in general and interactionism in particular. The Special Section on ‘Space and Time’ edited by Peter M. Hall published in Symbolic Interaction is comprised of very important … Continue reading

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More books to Review: Innovative Ethnographies #sssi

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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Now on Early View: Revisiting Impartiality: Social Media and Journalism at The BBC

Valérie Bélair-Gagnon’s article “Revisiting Impartiality: Social Media and Journalism at The BBC” has just been published on Early View. The author draws on David Altheide’s framework of ‘Ecology of Communication’ to examine how the influx of “techies” in the BBC … Continue reading

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