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The essays in this bi-annual series consist of original research and theory within the general sociological perspective known as symbolic interactionism. Longer than conventional journal-length articles, the essays wed mico and macro concerns within a qualitative, ethnographic, autoethnographic and performance studies orientation. International in scope, the series draws upon the work of urban ethnographers, interpretive, constructionist, ethnomethodological, critical race, postcolonial, feminist, queer, and cultural studies traditions. The emphasis is on new thought and research. Essays which

Divided into four parts, this title examines commodity racism: representation, racialization and resistance. It presents the interpretive works in the interactionist tradition. It features the essays which interrogate the intersections between biography, media, history, politics and culture.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- PART I THE INTERACTIONIST PERSPECTIVE AND THE PROCESS OF THEORY CONSTRUCTION -- 1. A Point of View -- 2. The Substance of Sociological Theory -- 3. Difficulties of Theory Construction -- PART II THEORY TO METHOD: SAMPLING AND MEASUREMENT PROBLEMS -- 4. Problems of Sampling: The Merger of Theory and Method -- 5. Problems of Measurement and Instrumentation -- 6. The Sociological Interview -- PART III THEORY TO METHOD: RESEARCH STRATEGIES -- 7. The Experiment and its Variations -- 8. The Social Survey and its Variations -- 9. Participant Observation: Varieties and Strategies of the Field Method -- 10. The Life History Method -- 11. Unobtrusive Measures: The Quest for Triangulated and Nonreactive Methods of Observation -- PART IV STRATEGIES OF TRIANGULATION AND THE ART OF DOING SOCIOLOGY -- 12. Strategies of Multiple Triangulation -- 13. On Ethics and the Politics of Doing Sociology -- References -- Index

Photo Montage 1: Mythic Native Americans and the new/old west. Searching for Yellowstone I -- Indians and cowboys -- Indians in the park -- Remembering to forget: Lewis and Clark and Native Americans in Yellowstone -- Photo Montage 2: Yellowstone Park and Lewis and Clark, Circa 2006. Sacagawea's nickname, or the Sacagawea problem -- Drawn to Yellowstone I: Jay Cooke's Railroad and Thomas Moran's The Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone -- Drawn to Yellowstone II: Crazy Mule's map, geysers, Coca-Cola, and other fragments -- Retire the chief, keep the indians -- Photo Montage 3: the new West, memory, and the author's family. Searching for Yellowstone II, and Alicia's horses -- Coda.

SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM AND CULTURAL STUDlES THE POLITICS OF INTERPRETATION -- CONTENTS -- Series Editor's Preface -- 1. The Interactionist Heritage -- 2. The Interpretive Heritage -- 3. Critique and Renewal: Links to Cultural Studies -- 4. Enter Cultural Studies -- 5. Communication as Interactionist Problematic -- 6. Interactionist Cultural Criticism -- 7. Into Politics -- References -- Index.

Volume 29 of "Studies in Symbolic Interaction" honors Ron Pelias' contributions to symbolic interaction and performance studies. The work of Patricia Ticineto Clough is also honored. New theoretical developments in the areas of race, identity, politics and authenticity are presented, as are performance essays interrogating mental health care, and the representations of gender and sexuality in the popular HBO series, "Sex in the City". It honors the work of Ron Pelias and Patricia Ticineto Clough and features a performance essay that discusses representations of gender and ethnicity in HBO's "Sex and the City".

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Part I. The Naturalistic Perspective -- Introduction -- 1. On the Relevance of Methodology -- 2. Methodological Principles of Empirical Science -- Part II. The Nature of Social Theory -- Introduction -- 3. Contemporary Theory in Sociology -- 4. Theory, Probability, and Induction in Social Research -- 5. What Is Wrong with Social Theory? -- Part III. Sampling Techniques: Strategies for Observing Elements of Theory and Social Structure -- Introduction -- 6. Theoretical Sampling -- 7. Relational Analysis: The Study of Social Organizations with Survey Methods -- 8. Organizational Analysis -- Part IV. Problems and Strategies of Measurement -- Introduction -- 9. Continuities in Sociological Measurement -- 10. Attitude Measurement and Prediction of Behavior: An Evaluation of Conditions and Measurement Techniques -- 11. An Empirical Investigation of Self-Attitudes -- Part V. The Sociological Interview: Problems and Strategies -- Introduction -- 12. Of Sociology and the Inverview -- 13. Interviewing Medical Students -- 14. The Unidentified Interviewer -- Part VI. Problems of Design and Analysis -- Introduction -- 15. False Criteria of Causality in Delinquency Research -- 16. Factors Relevant to the Validity of Experiments in Social Settings -- 17. The Quest for Universals in Sociological Research -- Part VII. The Social Experiment: Uses and Problems -- Introduction -- 18. On the Social Psychology of the Psychological Experiment: With Particular Reference to Demand Characteristics and Their Implications -- 19. "Irrelevant" Aspects of Stooge Behavior: Implications for Leadership Studies and Experimental Methodology -- Part VIII. The Social Survey: Uses and Problems -- Introduction -- 20. On Errors in Surveys -- 21. The Panel

Emphasizes developments in interactionist theory and practice, as well as examples of post-modern ethnography and performance texts focused on border crossings and performances. This book includes essays honoring Carolyn Ellis's contributions to 'Symbolic Interaction and Communications', and the annual address in the "Peter M Hall Lecture" series

This volume emphasizes interpretive interactionist work on race, media, culture and identity. Experimental, autoethnographic performance texts are privileged, as are recent theoretical developments in symbolic interaction theory involving critical humanism, pragmatic theories of power and the layered bureaucracy. It also presents essays on the New Iowa School, the work of Gideon. S. Joberg, cultural studies and symbolic interactionism, including the work of Norman Denzin.

This volume examines the concept of performance in ethnographic studies, with a special focus on the issues surrounding the performances of race, and cultural and environmental identities. A special partial section honours the contributions of David R. Maines to the field of communication studies. The concluding section considers new theoretical developments in interaction theory, including a re-examination of the spectatorial gaze in film and literary approaches to the imagined past.