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