Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. vii, 342 pages; 24 cm

Subject

1. Action research
2. Sociology > Methodology
3. Human behavior
4. Behavior
5. human behavior
6. Action research
7. Human behavior
8. Sociology > Methodology
9. Aktionsforschung
10. Empirische Sozialforschung
11. Performativität Kulturwissenschaften
12. Verhalten

Contents

1. Introduction: Human Behavior as Performance -- Rhetoric -- The "Double Plot" in Institutions -- The Literary Rhetoric of Science: Comedy and Pathos in Drinking-Driver Research -- Two Genres of Sociology: A Literary Analysis of The American Occupational Structure and Tally's Corner -- Sport as Story: Form and Content in Agonistic Games -- Reflexivity -- The Modernity of Social Movements: Public Roles and Private Parts -- Social Movements and Social Change: Perspectives of Linearity and Fluidity -- The Reflexivity of Social Movements: Collective Behavior and Mass Society Theory Revisited -- The Social Construction of Tradition: An Interactionist View of Social Change -- Symbolism -- Secular Symbolism: Studies of Ritual, Ceremony, and the Symbolic Order in Modern Life -- Nature's Body and the Metaphors of Food and Health -- The Social Symbolism of Smoking and Health -- The Social Meanings of Meals: Hierarchy and Equality in the American "Potluck" -- Conclusion: "Buddy, Can You Paradigm?": The Crisis of Theory in the Welfare State.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.