Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
Edited by Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila
ISBN
978-1529211757Imprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529211740Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529211771Imprint
Bristol University PressISBN
978-1529211771Imprint
Bristol University Press
Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination
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.
"This important book features rich conversations between semiotics and sociology. It advances study of meaning-making central to sociological inquiry by offering tools for analyzing the constitutive nature of signification producing social life." Ronald Breiger, University of Arizona
Andrea Cossu is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Trento.
Jorge Fontdevila is Professor of Sociology at California State University.
Introduction: Interpretive Sociology and the Semiotic Imagination - Andrea Cossu and Jorge Fontdevila
1.Marked and Unmarked: A Semiotic Distinction for Concept-Driven Interpretive Sociology - Wayne H. Brekhus
2.Blumer, Weber, Peirce and the Big Tent of Semiotic Sociology: Notes on Interactionism, Interpretivism, and Semiotics - J. I. (Hans) Bakker
3.Collective Agency: A Semiotic View - Rein Raud
4.Theorizing Side-Directed Behavior - Paul McLean and Eunkyung Song
5.Cultural Syntax and the Rules of Meaning Making: A New Paradigm for the Interpretation of Culture - Todd Madigan
6.Memory, Cultural Systems, and Anticipation - Andrea Cossu
7.Stigma Embedded Semiotics: Indexical Dilemmas of HIV across Local and Migrant Networks - Jorge Fontdevila
8.Supremacy or Symbiosis? The Effect of Gendered Ideologies of the Trans- versus Posthuman on Wearable Technology and Biodesign - Elizabeth Wissinger
