Introduction; Part I; 1: Assumptions of a Theory of Action; 2: An Interactionist Theory of Action; Part II; 3: Work and the Intersection of Forms of Action; 4: Body, Body Processes, and Interaction 1; 5: Interaction, Thought Processes, and Biography; 6: Interacting and Symbolizing; 7: Representation and Misrepresentation in Interaction; 8: The Interplay of Routine and Nonroutine Action; 9: Social Worlds and Society; 10: Social Worlds and Interaction in Arenas; 11: Negotiated Order and Structural Ordering
Anselm L. Strauss (1916-1996) was professor of sociology and chair of the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the University of California, San Francisco. His many books include Creating Sociological Awareness, Images of the American City, and Professions, Work, and Careers all available from Transaction. David R. Maines is professor and chair of sociology and anthropology at Oakland University. He was one of the founding members of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and has been a recipient of the SSSI George Herbert Mead Award for lifetime contributions to scholarship.
-Perhaps no sociologist of the past half century--with the possible
exceptions of Erving Goffman and Robert Merton--has been as
generous in creating a string of provocative middle-range concepts,
given freely to the sociological community, as has Anselm
Strauss... [This volume] represents Anselm Strauss at his
theoretical prime: the master of the sensitizing concept.- --Gary
Alan Fine, Social Forces -Although this book is promoted as a
theory of action, Strauss remains essentially a researcher and
methodologist. Substantively, his contributions to sociology have
stemmed from sustained research undertakings and, methologically,
from the alignment of his epistemology with his ontology... Strauss
believes that an empirical science of social phenomena is possible
and desirable and has brilliantly contributed to that objective. He
deserves the sustained attention of his fellow sociologists.-
--Carl J. Couch, Contemporary Sociology -Continual Permutations of
Action... does put you adrift among innumerable concepts, leaving
you at pains, as Strauss found himself, to reckon how such ideas
are interrelated.- --Thomas Spence Smith, American Journal of
Sociology
"Perhaps no sociologist of the past half century--with the possible
exceptions of Erving Goffman and Robert Merton--has been as
generous in creating a string of provocative middle-range concepts,
given freely to the sociological community, as has Anselm
Strauss... [This volume] represents Anselm Strauss at his
theoretical prime: the master of the sensitizing concept." --Gary
Alan Fine, Social Forces "Although this book is promoted as a
theory of action, Strauss remains essentially a researcher and
methodologist. Substantively, his contributions to sociology have
stemmed from sustained research undertakings and, methologically,
from the alignment of his epistemology with his ontology... Strauss
believes that an empirical science of social phenomena is possible
and desirable and has brilliantly contributed to that objective. He
deserves the sustained attention of his fellow sociologists."
--Carl J. Couch, Contemporary Sociology "Continual Permutations of
Action... does put you adrift among innumerable concepts, leaving
you at pains, as Strauss found himself, to reckon how such ideas
are interrelated." --Thomas Spence Smith, American Journal of
Sociology
"Perhaps no sociologist of the past half century--with the possible
exceptions of Erving Goffman and Robert Merton--has been as
generous in creating a string of provocative middle-range concepts,
given freely to the sociological community, as has Anselm
Strauss... [This volume] represents Anselm Strauss at his
theoretical prime: the master of the sensitizing concept." --Gary
Alan Fine, Social Forces "Although this book is promoted as a
theory of action, Strauss remains essentially a researcher and
methodologist. Substantively, his contributions to sociology have
stemmed from sustained research undertakings and, methologically,
from the alignment of his epistemology with his ontology... Strauss
believes that an empirical science of social phenomena is possible
and desirable and has brilliantly contributed to that objective. He
deserves the sustained attention of his fellow sociologists."
--Carl J. Couch, Contemporary Sociology "Continual Permutations of
Action... does put you adrift among innumerable concepts, leaving
you at pains, as Strauss found himself, to reckon how such ideas
are interrelated." --Thomas Spence Smith, American Journal of
Sociology
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