Creating Sociological Awareness: Collective Images and Symbolic Representations

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This volume of papers from the distinguished sociologist Anselm Strauss reflects his self-professed lifelong intention to create sociological awareness in his readers and students. As Irving Louis Horowitz notes in his foreword to the book, at the center of Strauss's effort has been the democratization of sociology. He has achieved this goal by making sure that relativities of status, power, and wealth are acknowledged in the conduct of everyday life, and by recognition that all collective life is subject to negotiation, rearrangement and reconstruction. Represented here is some of the work for which Strauss is best known, and the principal themes that have captured his imagination throughout his productive career. These include work, leisure, culture, illness, identity, and policy. All are linked by Strauss's "web of negotiation" by which organizational arrangements can be changed. The volume concludes with a selection of his work in problems of method, consultation, and teaching, affirming Strauss's commitment to passing along the sociological awareness reflected in this volume to a next generation. Squarely in the long tradition of the Chicago School of sociology, the work of Anselm Strauss represents the very best thinking in modem sociological and psychological analysis. Those interested in the development of his major conceptual frameworks, as well as those interested in the development of the specific subject areas to which Anselm Strauss has devoted his career will find this an essential volume. Professionals in the history of sociology, the sociology of knowledge, or medical sociology will find the book of particular interest. Dedication Contents Foreword • Irving Louis Horowitz Preface Acknowledgments I. Interaction 1. The Chicago Tradition’s Ongoing Theory of Action/Interaction 2. Closed Awareness (With Barney Glaser) 3. Face-to-Face Interaction: Complex and Developmental 4. Structured Interactional Process II. Work 5. Work and the Division of Labor 6. The Articulation of Project Work: An Organizational Process 7. Sentimental Work (With Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener) III. Trajectory 8. Trajectory Framework for Management of Chronic Illness (With Juliet Corbin) 9. Illness Trajectories (With Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener) IV. Negotiation 10. Negotiated Order and the Coordination of Work (With Rue Bucher, Danuta Ehrlich, Melvin Sabshin, and Leonard Schatzman) 11. General Considerations: An Introduction 12. Paradigm and Prospects for a General Theory of Negotiation V. Social Worlds 13. A Social World Perspective 14. Professions in Process (With Rue Bucher) 15. Memo on Science and Policy Arenas: Some Summary Notes VI. Collective Images and Symbolic Representations 16. The Symbolic Time of Cities 17. Images of Immigration and Ethnicity VII. Identity 18. Transformations of Identity VIII. Body and Biography 19. Experiencing Body Failure and a Disrupted Self-Image (With Juliet Corbin) 20. Comeback: The Process of Overcoming Disability (With Juliet Corbin) 21. Body, Action-Performance, and Everyday Life IX. Policy 22. Medical Ghettos 23. Implications for Delivering Safe and Humane Care (With Shizuko Fagerhaugh, Barbara Suczek, and Carolyn Wiener) 24. A Model for Reorganizing Health Care Delivery (With Juliet Corbin) X. Method, Consultation, and Teaching 25. Criteria for Evaluating a Grounded Theory (With Juliet Corbin) 26. Tracing Lines of Conditional Influence: Matrix and Paths (With Juliet Corbin) 27. Research Consultations and Teaching: Guidelines, Strategies, and Style Subject Index Author Index