The Routledge International Handbook of Interactionism

Dirk vom Lehn is Professor of Organisation and Practice at King’s Business School, King’s College London, UK. He is the author of Harold Garfinkel: The Creation and Development of Ethnomethodology. Natalia Ruiz-Junco is Associate Professor of Sociology at Auburn University, USA, and co-editor of Updating Charles H. Cooley: Contemporary Perspectives on a Sociological Classic. Will Gibson is Reader in Social Research Methods at University College London, Institute of Education, UK, and co-author of Institutions, Interaction and Social Theory and Working with Qualitative Data.

Part 1: Introduction; 1. Introduction; Part 2: Varieties of Interactionism; 2. Pragmatism and Interaction; 3. Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism and 21st-century Sociology; 4. Straussian Negotiated Order Theory c.1960–Present; 5. Recent Developments in the New Iowa School of Symbolic Interactionism; 6. Dramaturgical Frameworks and Interactionism; 7. Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis: The Other Interactionism; Part 3: Self, Identity, and Emotions; 8. Click, Validate, and Reply: Three Paradoxes of the Terminal Self; 9. Animal Selfhood; 10. The Self and the Supernatural; 11. The (Un)Healthy Body and the Self; 12. Identity and Racialisation; 13. Symbolic Interaction beyond Binaries; 14. Culture and Emotion: Interactionist Perspectives; Part 4: Social Organisation; 15. Organizations and Institutions; 16. Symbolic Interactionism, Social Structure, and Social Change: Historical Debates and Contemporary Challenges; 17. Mental Health and Symbolic Interactionism: Untapped Opportunities; 18. Handling Video of [Police] Violence: Theoretical versus Practical Analyses; 19. Space, Mobility, and Interaction; 20. Nature and the Environment in Interaction; 21. The Social Organization of Time; 22. Collective Memory; Part 5: Interactionism, Media and the Internet; 23. Media Logic, Fear, and the Construction of Terrorism; 24. Public Fear and the Media; 25. Policing and Social Media; 26. Interactionism and Online Identity: How Has Interactionism Contributed to Understandings of Online Identity?; 27. Physical Co-presence and Distinctive Features of Online Interactions; 28. Happy Birthday Michael Jackson: Dead Celebrity and Online Interaction 29. Multi-Player Online Gaming; Part 6: New Developments in Methods 30. Situational Analysis as Critical Pragmatist Interactionism; 31. Video in Interactionist Research; 32. Digital Naturalism: Ethnography in Networked Worlds; 33. Ethics in Symbolic Interactionist Research; Part 7: Reimagining Interactionism; 34. Toward an Expanded Definition of Symbolic Interactionism; 35. Some Antinomies of Interactionism; 36. Interactionist Research: Extending Methods, Extending Fields; 37. The New Horizons of Symbolic Interactionism