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Radical Interactionism and Critiques of Contemporary Culture

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction

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Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Volume 52

Radical Interactionism and Critiques of Contemporary Culture

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Norman K. Denzin

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States

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University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, United States

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About the Contributors

Norman Conti is a Professor of Sociology at Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit and a founding member of the Elsinore Bennu Think Tank for Restorative Justice. He has published widely on police socialization and coauthored research on destigmatization and humility among activists.

Christopher Ferree: Whether as a salesman in mass-market fashion or luxury retail, or as a Coordinator of Visitor Experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, impeccability, graciousness, and thoughtfulness have been the guiding principles of Ferree's career.

Stacey Hannem is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford (Ontario), Canada, and past Vice-President (2019) of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. Her research considers how marginalized people experience the effects of legal and regulatory structures in their everyday lives.

Michael A. Katovich is a Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Texas Christian University. He received his PhD from the University of Iowa, where he studied symbolic interactionism and social processes under the tutelage of Carl Couch. His research and teaching emphasizes symbolic interactionist approach advocated by Couch.

Krzysztof T. Konecki is a Professor of Sociology and works at the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Economics and Sociology, University of Lodz. He is the editor-in-chief of Qualitative Sociology Review and holds the position of President of Polish Sociological Association and is the member of the Committee of Sociology of the Polish Academy of Science.

Joseph A. Kotarba is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Music Across the Life Course Project at Texas State University. He also serves as Medical Sociologist at the Institute for Translational Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. He is currently writing on interactionist features of team science; music experiences among senior citizens; and the persistence of existential ideas in contemporary intellectual life.

Erick Laming is a PhD candidate in criminology at the University of Toronto. He is a member of the Shabot Obaadjiwan First Nation and his research largely focuses on police use of force, police oversight and accountability, and Indigenous community members’ perceptions of and experiences with the criminal justice system.

Veronica Manlow is a Sociologist Teacher in the Department of Management in Brooklyn College's Koppelman School of Business. Recent research focuses on those who work within the luxury fashion sector in various roles, specifically as salespersons and as designers and artisans who work for global brands and smaller independent firms.

Marco Marzano is Professor of Sociology at the University of Bergamo, Italy. His research focuses on Catholicism, cancer, illness narratives, and organization theory. He is also interested in ethical issues and autoethnography.

Gil Richard Musolf is Professor Emeritus from the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Central Michigan University. He has published on symbolic interactionism in a variety of journals, including: The Sociological Quarterly, Symbolic Interaction, Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Michigan Sociological Review, Sociological Focus, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

Robert Perinbanayagam is a Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Hunter College of the City University of New York. He is the author of Signifying Acts, Discursive Acts, The Rhetoric of Emotions, and Rhetoric of Signs. He has won the Charles Horton Cooley Award and the G.H. Mead Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction.

Alina Pop is a Senior Lecturer of Communication Psychology at the Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University in Bucharest, Romania. Her main research interests focuses on social representations in conflict situation, environmental risks, sense of place, and autobiographical memory.

John C. Pruit is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Stephen F. Austin State University. His current research program analyzes people's talk and interaction in education contexts. His book, Between Teaching and Caring in the Preschool, considers preschool teachers' identity work in relation to early childhood education.

Amanda G. Pruit is a Doctoral Student at Adams State University. Her current research focuses on graduate student experiences and academic environments. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Human Services: Training, Research, and Practice.

Carol Rambo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Memphis in Memphis, TN. She edited Symbolic Interaction from 2007 to 2011. She has researched Mentally Disabled Parenting, Childhood Sexual Abuse, and the craft of writing Autoethnography. She has published work in Deviant Behavior, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, and Qualitative Inquiry.

Laura Rosenberg has a PhD in Social Sciences (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina), is a Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina and Assistant Professor at the National University of Avellaneda. Her main research interests focuses on Journalism, Media and Culture.

Christopher J. Schneider is Professor of Sociology at Brandon University. Schneider's research and publications have focused largely on information technologies and related changes to police work. He has written or collaborated on five books and has published dozens of scholarly articles, chapters, and essays. Schneider previously held the Endowed Chair of Criminology and Criminal Justice at St. Thomas University.

Norbert Wiley is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, and was Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Berkeley. He is a prize-winning sociologist who has published on both the history and systematics of theory.

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