Interactionist Imagination

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published extensively on sociology and social theory.

• Introduction: Instigators of Interactionism – A Short Introduction to Interactionism in Sociology; Michael Hviid Jacobsen.- Chapter 1: Georg Simmel – Interactionist Before Symbolic Interactionism?; Greg Smith.- Chapter 2: Robert E. Park – A Precursor to Interactionism; Suzie Guth.- Chapter 3: George Herbert Mead – The Evolution of Mind, Self and Society through Interaction; Antony J. Puddephatt.- Chapter 4: Everett C. Hughes – Human Ecology, Peripheries and the World of Work; Edward B. Davis.- Chapter 5: Herbert Blumer – From Critique to Perspective; Alex Dennis.- Chapter 6: Manford H. Kuhn – A Legacy in the Age of Inquiry; Michael A. Katovich.- Chapter 7: Erving Goffman – Exploring the Interaction Order through Everyday Observations and Imaginative Metaphors; Michael Hviid Jacobsen.- Chapter 8: Harold Garfinkel – Experimenting with Social Order; Dirk vom Lehn.- Chapter 9: Anselm L. Strauss – Action/Work as Process and Perspective; Jörg Strübing.- Chapter 10: Jack D. Douglas– The Existential Sociology Project; Andrey Melnikov & Joseph A. Kotarba.- Chapter 11: Howard S. Becker – Aspects of an Open Sociology; Marc Perrenoud.- Chapter 12: Stanford M. Lyman – A Sociology of the Absurd and Beyond; Cecil E. Greek & Michael Hviid Jacobsen.- Chapter 13: Arlie R. Hochschild – Interactions, Emotions and Commercialized Intimacy; Michael Hviid Jacobsen & Anders Petersen.- Chapter 14: Gary Alan Fine – From Small Groups to Peopled Ethnography; Chiara Bassetti & Roberta Sassatelli.-