Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination /

Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still needs to engage with semiosis mediation. Written by a diverse group of authors in interpretive sociology...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cossu, Andrea (Editor ), Fontdevila, Jorge (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2023.
Colección:Interpretive lenses in sociology
Temas:
Semiotics > Social aspects.
Sociology > Methodology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory
Sociology > Methodology
Semiotics
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover
  • Series
  • Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • Series Editors' Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology-On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Introduction: Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
  • Signification as self-referential differences
  • Signification as reflexive indexicalities
  • Context and interpretation, habit and power, culture and cognition
  • Context-making and indexical interpretation
  • Habit formation and power
  • Format of culture and cognition
  • Outline of the chapters
  • References
  • 1 Marked and Unmarked: A Semiotic Distinction for Concept-driven Interpretive Sociology
  • Why markedness and unmarkedness matter for interpretive sociology
  • Sociocultural cognitive defaults and the exercise of social power
  • Markedness and unmarkedness in the reproduction of social inequalities
  • Unmarked power and epistemic exclusion: rethinking theory and researcher standpoint
  • Power, privilege and identity
  • Unmarked and marked identity attributes and intersectionality
  • Perception: marked and unmarked risks and the semiotic asymmetry of cultural attention
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 2 Blumer, Weber, Peirce, and the Big Tent of Semiotic Sociology: Notes on Interactionism, Interpretivism, and Semiotics
  • A new synthesis: incorporating Blumer, Weber, and Peirce
  • Symbols and interactions
  • Step one: Blumer 1969 as anchor point
  • Step two: American symbolic interactionism (ASI)
  • Step three: interactionism in general (IG)
  • Step four: Weberian interpretive sociology (ITM, CHS)
  • Step five: Peirce's semiotics
  • An old idea in new packaging
  • Lifting the veils as a semiotic trope
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 3 Collective Agency: A Semiotic View
  • Social entities
  • Agents: individual/collective
  • Language and the social fabric
  • The collective subject
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 4 Theorizing Side-directed Behavior
  • Some empirical evidence
  • De Waal on chimpanzee politics
  • McFarland on classroom dynamics
  • Bullying dynamics in schools
  • Workplace dynamics
  • Digital communication
  • Developing a theoretical framework
  • Simmel on triads and secrecy
  • White on switchings
  • How to proceed
  • Networks
  • Semiotics
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 5 Cultural Syntax and the Rules of Meaning-making: A New Paradigm for the Interpretation of Culture
  • Introduction
  • Semantics
  • Structure
  • Syntax
  • The rules of meaning-making
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • 6 Memory, Cultural Systems, and Anticipation
  • Prologue (Springsteen and I)
  • Introduction
  • "Memory" and the semiotic space
  • Semiotic ontologies, selectability, and the future
  • The shapes of the future
  • Conclusions
  • References
  • 7 Stigma-embedded Semiotics: Indexical Dilemmas of HIV across Local and Migrant Networks

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