Research Catalog

Title

Performing action : artistry in human behavior and social research / Joseph R. Gusfield.

Author

Gusfield, Joseph R., 1923-

Publication

New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, ©2000.

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Details

Description

vii, 342 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Action research
• Sociology > Methodology
• Human behavior
• Behavior
• human behavior
• Action research
• Human behavior
• Sociology > Methodology
• Aktionsforschung
• Empirische Sozialforschung
• Performativität Kulturwissenschaften
• Verhalten

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

• 0765800160
• 9780765800169

LCCN

00042309

OCLC

• ocm44174237
• 44174237
• SCSB-1218403

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library