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NORMAN K. DENZIN
SERIES EDITOR: CHARLES C. LEMERT

Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring and certainly —

the mosi sociologicol of di social psycholog les. In this Iandmark

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work, Norman K. Denzin traces symbolic interactionism’s history

from jis roots in American pragmatism to lis present-day encounter
with poststructurdism and postmodernism.
Arguing that if interactionism is lo continue lo thrive ond grow it
must ¡ncorporate elemenis of poststructural and post-modern theory
mio lis underlying views of history, culture, ond politics, the author
develops a reseorch agenda which merges the interactionisi
sociologica! imaginotion with the critico! insights of contemporory
feminism and cultural studies.
Norman Denziri’s programmatic analysis of symbolic interactionism
develops a politics of ¡nterpretation, merging theory and practice,
which will be welcomed by students ond scholars in a wide range
of disciplines from sociology lo cultural studies.
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Norman Denzin is Professor of Socioloy, Communications and

Humanities al the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is
the ciuthor of numerous books, including Sociological Methods; The
Resecirch Ac1 Inferpretive Interactionism; The Recovering Akoholic;
and The Alcoholic SeIf, which won the Cooley Award from the
Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in 1988. He is the
editor of Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Reseorch Journal and
The Sociological Quarteriy.

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