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"Land of My Fathers," "Another Mother," and "Someday He'll Come Along" were written for and presented at sessions chaired by Norman Denzin at the Midwest Sociological Society meetings in 1998, 1999, and 2000, respectively. Along with two earlier pieces, "My Mother's Car" and "Sarah and Me," they are intended to answer Denzin's call for new stories about life in postmodern society in his presidential address to the Midwest Sociological Society.

Symbolic interactionism, resolutely empirical in practice, shares theoretical concerns with cultural studies and humanistic discourse. Recognizing that the humanities have engaged many of the important intellectual currents of the last twenty-five years in ways that sociology has not, the contributors to this volume fully acknowledge that the boundary between the social sciences and the humanities has begun to dissolve. This challenging volume explores that border area

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- PREFACE -- 1. The Social Organization of Relationships -- Organizational Components of Relationships -- Organizational Dynamics of Relationships -- Organizational Change in Relationships -- Conclusions -- 2. Boundary Rules in Relationships and Encounters -- Boundary Rules and the Focus -- Threats to the Boundary Rules-Alienation and Change -- Conclusions -- 3. Rules of Conduct and the Study of Deviant Behavior: Some Notes on the Social Relationship -- The Nature of Social Relationships -- Relational Morality and Propriety -- Perceptions of Relational Impropriety -- Relational Morality and the Broader Social Order -- 4. Friendship as a Social Institution -- The Cultural and Situational Elements of Friendship -- Self Exposure and Institutional Restrictions on Friendship -- The Private Culture of Friendship -- Conclusion -- 5. Friendships and Friendly Relations -- Desirability of Friendly Relations -- Friendly Relations in Contrast with Friendships -- Factors Affecting Bases of Association -- Organizational Constraints on Association -- Processes of Friendship Formation and Development -- Friendship Development and Maintenance -- Character of Negotiation Within a Stable Relationship -- Summary and Conclusions -- 6. A Collaborative Overview of Social Relationships -- The Nature of Social Relationships -- Organizational Dynamics -- Organizational Change -- Inter organizational Relations -- Functions and Dysfunctions for Individual and Society -- Problems of Research -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- ANALYTICAL INDEX