Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
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Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination

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Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination

About this book

Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still needs to engage with semiotic mediation.

Written by a diverse group of authors in interpretive sociology, this ambitious volume asks what the relationship between meaning systems and action is, how we can describe culture and which roles we assign to language, social processes and cognition in a sociological context. Contributors offer empirical research that not only outlines the conceptual issues at stake, but also demonstrates 'how to do things' with semiotics through case studies.

Synthesizing a diverse and fragmented landscape, this is a key reference work for scholars interested in the connection between semiotics and sociology.

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Yes, you can access Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination by Andrea Cossu,Jorge Fontdevila in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Cultural & Social Anthropology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Series Information
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Series Editors’ Preface: Interpretive Lenses in Sociology—On the Multidimensional Foundations of Meaning in Social Life
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Introduction: Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
  9. 1 Marked and Unmarked: A Semiotic Distinction for Concept-driven Interpretive Sociology
  10. 2 Blumer, Weber, Peirce, and the Big Tent of Semiotic Sociology: Notes on Interactionism, Interpretivism, and Semiotics
  11. 3 Collective Agency: A Semiotic View
  12. 4 Theorizing Side-directed Behavior
  13. 5 Cultural Syntax and the Rules of Meaning-making: A New Paradigm for the Interpretation of Culture
  14. 6 Memory, Cultural Systems, and Anticipation
  15. 7 Stigma-embedded Semiotics: Indexical Dilemmas of HIV across Local and Migrant Networks
  16. 8 Supremacy or Symbiosis? The Effect of Gendered Ideologies of the Transhuman versus Posthuman on Wearable Technology and Biodesign
  17. Index