Continual Permutations of ActionTransaction Publishers - 280 páginas Although it has not been his intention to promulgate theory for its own sake, Anselm Strauss has proven himself a formidable theorist. What has prompted this new treatise on human action (or as Strauss would prefer, acting) was a dissatisfaction with the accounts of social phenomena in the received, mainline sociological literature. Derived from the survey and functionalist traditions, such accounts have simplified complexities drastically, and mostly left implicit the underlying action assumptions of their research. Rejecting Parsons and Lazarsfeld as models, Strauss traces the perspective on human action presented in Continual Permutations of Action to a very different tradition, that of the Pragmatists. Strauss's account begins with the concept of trajectory, referring to a course of action but also embracing the interaction of multiple actors and contingencies. Certain Straussian terms and motifs come rapidly into play in the earlier sections, where he maps out his account: conditional matrix, temporality, and the like. The later sections are given over to major topics, including work and its relations with other forms of action; the body; thought processes; symbolizing; social worlds and arenas; representation; the interplay of routine and creative action; and the relevance of the concept of social worlds to understanding the interplay of several levels of social order in contemporary society. Extending the limits of interactionist theory, Strauss has raised questions about interpreting social phenomena that will be debated for some time to come. |
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AN INTERACTIONIST THEORY OF ACTION | 47 |
Introductory Remarks | 48 |
INTERACTING AND SYMBOLIZING | 149 |
Language and Symbolizing | 150 |
Symbols Symbolizing and Symbolic Products | 151 |
Motivations Symbolizations and Interactions | 153 |
Symbolic Universes | 155 |
Collapse Loss and Estrangement from Symbolic Universes | 157 |
Social Worlds and Symbolization | 159 |
Urban Images of Chicago | 160 |
Work A Major Form of Action | 51 |
Trajectory and Related Concepts | 52 |
Subconcepts | 54 |
Additional Concepts | 57 |
A Conditional Matrix | 60 |
Properties and Types and Local Concepts | 65 |
A Note on Types of Experiences | 68 |
The Usefulness of a Theory of Action | 70 |
A Preliminary Note and Analysis | 75 |
WORK AND THE INTERSECTION OF FORMS OF ACTION | 81 |
Work as Rational and Its Rationalization | 82 |
History within the Work | 84 |
Routines and Contingencies | 85 |
The Centrality of Interaction for Work | 86 |
Work in Relation to Other Forms of Action | 93 |
Biographical Work and Its Interactions | 97 |
BODY BODY PROCESSES AND INTERACTION | 107 |
Body as a Necessary Condition for Action | 108 |
Body as Agent | 110 |
SelfAs Subject As ObjectAnd Body | 111 |
Mental Activity and the Body | 112 |
Intentional and Unintentional Action in Relation to Body | 113 |
The Body and Temporal Aspects of Interaction | 117 |
BodyMind Metaphors | 118 |
Symbolization and the Body | 119 |
Action Performance and Appearance | 120 |
Body Processes | 121 |
Having an Experience | 122 |
INTERACTION THOUGHT PROCESS AND BIOGRAPHY | 127 |
Thought Processes as Action | 129 |
Thought Processes and Biographical Processes | 136 |
A Case History | 138 |
A Final Note | 146 |
LargeScale Symbolization | 162 |
Diffuse Collective Symbolizations | 166 |
REPRESENTATION AND MISREPRESENTATION IN INTERACTION | 169 |
Difficulties in Interpreting Representations | 170 |
Representation versus Presentation of Self | 172 |
Representational Interactions | 173 |
Representing in the Interactions | 176 |
Strategic Interaction | 187 |
THE INTERPLAY OF ROUTINE AND NONROUTINE ACTION | 191 |
Routine Action | 193 |
The Complex Nature of Routines and Routine Actions | 194 |
Routine Innovation and Creativity | 200 |
SOCIAL WORLDS AND SOCIETY | 209 |
Asserted or Presumed Dominance of Social Class Race Gender and Other Social Units | 210 |
A SocialWorld Perspective | 212 |
SocialWorld Processes | 215 |
Social Worlds and the Nation State | 219 |
Genocide as a Case Illustration | 221 |
SOCIAL WORLDS AND INTERACTION IN ARENAS | 225 |
Arenas and Social Worlds | 226 |
Policy Arenas | 227 |
Scientists in Policy Arenas | 232 |
Summary Note | 242 |
NEGOTIATED ORDER AND STRUCTURAL ORDERING | 245 |
The Interactionist Position | 246 |
Negotiated Order | 248 |
Implications Concerning Order and Change | 250 |
Processual Ordering | 254 |
The Necessity of Processual Ordering and the Foundational Role of Matrix Conditions | 255 |
OrderDisorder StabilityInstability and Change | 258 |
REFERENCES | 263 |
INDEX | 275 |
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