Table of Contents
Foreword by Kathy Charmaz Preface Acknowledgments 1. STUDYING HUMAN LIVED EXPERIENCE An Introduction to the Intersubjective Enterprise
Social Science and an Introduction to the Postitivist-Interpretivist Debate Symbolic Interaction and the Study of Human Lived Experience Ethnographic Research: The Quest for Intimate Familiarity Overview of the Volume
2. INTERPRETIVE ROOTS Experience as Intersubjective Reality
The Hermeneutic (Interpretive) Tradition
Wilhelm Dilthey: Interpretation as Intersubjectivity Georg Simmel: Form and Content Max Weber: Emphasizing and Obscuring Verstehen Sociology Wilhelm Wundt: Intersubjective Dimensions of Folk Psychology
American Pragmatism: Practical Accomplishment Early Interactionism: Theory and Methods
Charles Horton Cooley: Language, Process, and Sympathetic Introspection George Herbert Mead: Mind, Self, and Society in Action
Conclusion
3. CONTEMPORARY VARIANTS OF THE INTERPRETIVE TRADITION Symbolic Interaction et al.
Chicago-Style Symbolic Interaction: Herbert Blumer Other Variants of the Interpretive Approach
The Iowa School of Symbolic Interaction Dramaturgical Sociology Labeling Theory Phenomenological Sociology The Philosophical Underpinnings of Everyday Life Reality Construction Theory Ethnomethodology
Structuration Theory The New (Constructionist) Sociology of Science
4. THE ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH TRADITION Encountering the Other
Historical and Anthropological Dimensions of Ethnographic Research Ethnography as a Sociological Venture: Field Research at the University of Chicago
Albion Small: Organizer and Facilitator William Isaac Thomas (and Florian Znaniecki): The Polish Peasant George Herbert Mead: Symbolic Significances of the Human Group Ellsworth Faris: Ethnographer in the Shadows Robert Ezra Park and Ernest Burgess: Exploring the City Student Ethnographies: Learning by Doing
Chicago Sociology in Transition
Everett Hughes: Sociologist at Work Herbert Blumer: Providing the Conceptual Base Carrying On the Tradition
5 GENERIC SOCIAL PROCESS Transcontextualizing Ethnographic Inquiry
Generic Social Processes and the Study of Human Group Life
The Chicago Influence Other Statements on Generic Social Processes
Achieving Ethnographic Transcontextuality
Acquiring Perspectives Achieving Identity Being Involved Doing Activity Experiencing Relationships Forming and Coordinating Associations
Conclusions
6 EXPERIENCING EMOTIONALITY Affectivity as a Generic Social Process
Emotionality: Interactionist Dimensions
Learning to Define Emotional Experiences Developing Techniques for Expressing and Controlling Emotional Experiences Experiencing Emotional Episodes and Entanglements
Emotionality and the Ethnographer Self
Sustaining the Ethnographic Focus Ethnographic Research and Generic Social Processes Managing and Expressing Emotionality in the Field
7. BETWIXT POSITIVIST PROCLIVITIES AND POSTMODERNIST PROPENSITIES Pursuing the Pragmatics of Presence through the Ethnographic Other
Positivist/Structuralist Social Science: Premises, Pursuits, and Pitfalls
Positivist Physical Science and Social Science Orientations Positivist Dilemmas: Epistemological Challenges and Motivated Resistances Synthesis and Reconciliations: Feasibilities and Practical Limitations
Postmodernist Propensities: Nietzschean Skepticism, Linguistic Reductionism, and Mixed Agendas Postmodernist Methodological Resurrectionism: Representing and Obscuring the Ethnographic Other
8. OBDURATE REALITY AND THE INTERSUBJECTIVE OTHER The Problematics of Representation and the Privilege of Presence (with Lorne Dawson)
On the Nature of "Obdurate Reality" The Problematics of Representation and the "Privilege of Presence"
References Index of Names Index of Terms
