November 28, 2025 at 8:45 PM
New Invited Review: Gary T. Marx - "Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope" doi.org/10.1002/symb... #sssi #sociology #Goffman @WileySociology sijournal.wordpress.com #symbolicinteraction
Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope
The 100th anniversary of Erving Goffman's birth was in 2022. Drawing on his work, the Goffman archives, the secondary literature, and personal experiences with him and those in his university of Chic...
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December 19, 2024 at 10:12 AM
New Invited Review: Gary T. Marx - "Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope" doi.org/10.1002/symb... #sssi #sociology #Goffman @WileySociology sijournal.wordpress.com #symbolicinteraction
New edited collection with Will Gibson and Natalia Ruiz-Junco “Sensing Life: The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction” #ethnomethodology #sssi #symbolicinteraction #sociology #senses #perception
Together with Will Gibson (UCL) and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (Auburn University) I have published…
Together with Will Gibson (UCL) and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (Auburn University) I have published…
New edited collection with Will Gibson and Natalia Ruiz-Junco “Sensing Life: The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction” #ethnomethodology #sssi #symbolicinteraction #sociology #senses #perception
Together with Will Gibson (UCL) and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (Auburn University) I have published a new edited collection titled "Sensing Life: The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction". Table of contents 1 Will Gibson, Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Dirk vom Lehn: Introduction Part 1 – Studying the Senses 2 Will Gibson, Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Dirk vom Lehn: Theorizing the senses Part 2 – Sensing at Work…
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April 21, 2026 at 3:26 PM
New edited collection with Will Gibson and Natalia Ruiz-Junco “Sensing Life: The Social Organisation of the Senses in Interaction” #ethnomethodology #sssi #symbolicinteraction #sociology #senses #perception
Together with Will Gibson (UCL) and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (Auburn University) I have published…
Together with Will Gibson (UCL) and Natalia Ruiz-Junco (Auburn University) I have published…
Website and call for papers for the 2026 EUSSSI conference launched.
As reflected in the Symbolic Interaction journal and CfP, welcoming of work in EM/CA related to conference theme.
#symbolicinteraction
#groundedtheory
#emca
www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/...
As reflected in the Symbolic Interaction journal and CfP, welcoming of work in EM/CA related to conference theme.
#symbolicinteraction
#groundedtheory
#emca
www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/...
European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction Oslo 2026
- Department of Sociology and Human Geography
The annual conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction will take place from June 16th - June 19th in beautiful Oslo, Norway. This is the main European conference designed ...
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January 7, 2026 at 12:15 PM
Website and call for papers for the 2026 EUSSSI conference launched.
As reflected in the Symbolic Interaction journal and CfP, welcoming of work in EM/CA related to conference theme.
#symbolicinteraction
#groundedtheory
#emca
www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/...
As reflected in the Symbolic Interaction journal and CfP, welcoming of work in EM/CA related to conference theme.
#symbolicinteraction
#groundedtheory
#emca
www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/...
Working on a new ethnographic study of live drag racing announcers. Announcers do more than call races. They help transform racetracks into meaningful places through storytelling, recognition, and public communication.
#Sociology #Ethnography #SymbolicInteraction #Communication
#Sociology #Ethnography #SymbolicInteraction #Communication
July 18, 2026 at 8:27 PM
Working on a new ethnographic study of live drag racing announcers. Announcers do more than call races. They help transform racetracks into meaningful places through storytelling, recognition, and public communication.
#Sociology #Ethnography #SymbolicInteraction #Communication
#Sociology #Ethnography #SymbolicInteraction #Communication
New Article: Philip Smith – “How the Impossible Remains Impossible: Mundane Reason Confronts Time Travel Images” #sssi #sociology #symbolicinteraction #culture doi.org/10.1002/symb... @WileySociology - sijournal.wordpress.com
How the Impossible Remains Impossible: Mundane Reason Confronts Time Travel Images
Every culture has a cosmology containing fundamental beliefs about the nature of time and space, the human individual, and causality. The classical sociology of E.E. Evans-Pritchard and Melvin Pollne...
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December 19, 2024 at 10:32 AM
New Article: Philip Smith – “How the Impossible Remains Impossible: Mundane Reason Confronts Time Travel Images” #sssi #sociology #symbolicinteraction #culture doi.org/10.1002/symb... @WileySociology - sijournal.wordpress.com
The actual theorem states: If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
And this feels especially profound
#powerstructures
#systematicpower
#patriarchy
#whodecidedgender
#whodecidesgendernorms
#gendertheory
#symbolicinteraction
And this feels especially profound
#powerstructures
#systematicpower
#patriarchy
#whodecidedgender
#whodecidesgendernorms
#gendertheory
#symbolicinteraction
February 24, 2024 at 4:28 PM
The actual theorem states: If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.
And this feels especially profound
#powerstructures
#systematicpower
#patriarchy
#whodecidedgender
#whodecidesgendernorms
#gendertheory
#symbolicinteraction
And this feels especially profound
#powerstructures
#systematicpower
#patriarchy
#whodecidedgender
#whodecidesgendernorms
#gendertheory
#symbolicinteraction
📢 Calling all #gradstudents in #SymbolicInteraction! The Herbert Blumer Award for Best Grad Student Paper is accepting nominations. Deadline: April 15. #Publishedorunpublished papers. Self-nominations accepted. Submit your paper to Michael O. Johnston, Chair (johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu)!
March 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
📢 Calling all #gradstudents in #SymbolicInteraction! The Herbert Blumer Award for Best Grad Student Paper is accepting nominations. Deadline: April 15. #Publishedorunpublished papers. Self-nominations accepted. Submit your paper to Michael O. Johnston, Chair (johnstonmo@wmpenn.edu)!
CALLING ALL GRAD STUDENTS: Do you have a 📄 (published/ unpublished) that is ✍️ from the perspective of #symbolicinteraction? If so, please consider making a nomination for The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction's #HerbertBlumerAward for #BestGraduateStudentPaper in Symbolic Interaction!
February 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
CALLING ALL GRAD STUDENTS: Do you have a 📄 (published/ unpublished) that is ✍️ from the perspective of #symbolicinteraction? If so, please consider making a nomination for The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction's #HerbertBlumerAward for #BestGraduateStudentPaper in Symbolic Interaction!
