Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology—On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
- 1 Marked and Unmarked: A Semiotic Distinction for Concept-driven Interpretive Sociology
- 2 Blumer, Weber, Peirce, and the Big Tent of Semiotic Sociology: Notes on Interactionism, Interpretivism, and Semiotics
- 3 Collective Agency: A Semiotic View
- 4 Theorizing Side-directed Behavior
- 5 Cultural Syntax and the Rules of Meaning-making: A New Paradigm for the Interpretation of Culture
- 6 Memory, Cultural Systems, and Anticipation
- 7 Stigma-embedded Semiotics: Indexical Dilemmas of HIV across Local and Migrant Networks
- 8 Supremacy or Symbiosis? The Effect of Gendered Ideologies of the Transhuman versus Posthuman on Wearable Technology and Biodesign
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2024
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editors’ Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology—On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
- 1 Marked and Unmarked: A Semiotic Distinction for Concept-driven Interpretive Sociology
- 2 Blumer, Weber, Peirce, and the Big Tent of Semiotic Sociology: Notes on Interactionism, Interpretivism, and Semiotics
- 3 Collective Agency: A Semiotic View
- 4 Theorizing Side-directed Behavior
- 5 Cultural Syntax and the Rules of Meaning-making: A New Paradigm for the Interpretation of Culture
- 6 Memory, Cultural Systems, and Anticipation
- 7 Stigma-embedded Semiotics: Indexical Dilemmas of HIV across Local and Migrant Networks
- 8 Supremacy or Symbiosis? The Effect of Gendered Ideologies of the Transhuman versus Posthuman on Wearable Technology and Biodesign
- Index
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- Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination , pp. i - ivPublisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2023