Linh Dan Nguyen, Chloe Preece & Dirk Vom Lehn
In this article, we offer some observations on the international standing of communicative constructivism (CoCo), as discussed in scholarship published largely in German over the past decade (e.g., KELLER, KOBLAUCH & REICHERTZ, 2013; KNOBLAUCH, 2019a [2016]; REICHERTZ, 2009). We seek to explain why, in our view, CoCo has not thus far had a noticeable influence on academic discourse in international, particularly Anglo-American, sociology. Amongst others, we highlight issues regarding the name that was picked for the perspective and regarding the literal translation of German CoCo terminology into the English language. We also point to some theoretical and methodological choices that have made it difficult to link CoCo to interactionist sociology in general, and to ethnomethodology and ethnography in particular, i.e., perspectives that we are closely aligned with. We conclude with a summary of our observations and a few suggested steps communicative constructivists might consider taking to broaden and diversify the appeal of their program beyond German speaking sociology.
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Part 1
Dirk vom Lehn, Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Will Gibson
Part 2 – Varieties of Interactionism
2.1. Pragmatism and Interactionism – Frithjof Nungesser
2.2. Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism and 21st century sociology – Thomas J. Morrione
2.3. Straussian Negotiated Order Theory c.1960-Present – Adele Clarke
2.4. Recent Developments in the New Iowa School of Symbolic Interactionism – Michael Katovich and Shing-Ling S. Chen
2.5. Dramaturgical Framework and Interactionism – Greg Smith
2.6. Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis: The Other Interactionism – Jason Turowetz and Anne Warfield Rawls
Part 3–Self, Identity, and Emotions
3.1 Click, Validate, and Reply: Three Paradoxes of the Terminal Self – Simon Gottschalk
3.2. Animal Selfhood – Leslie Irvine
3.3. The Self and the Supernatural – Rachael Ironside
3.4. The (Un)Healthy Body and the Self – Lisa Jean Moore and Sumayra Khan
3.5. Identity and Racialisation – Matt Hughey & Michael Rosino
3.6. Symbolic Interaction beyond Binaries – J.E. Sumerau
3.7. Culture and Emotion: Interactionist Perspectives – Doyle McCarthy
Part 4 – Social Organisation
4.1. Organizations and Institutions – Patrick McGinty
4.2. Symbolic Interactionism, Social Structure, and Social Change: Historical Debates and Contemporary Challenges – Stacey Hannem
4.3. Mental Health and Symbolic Interactionism: Untapped Opportunities – Baptiste Brossard
4.4. Handling Video of [Police] Violence: Theoretical versus Practical Analyses
– Patrick Watson & Albert J. Meehan
4.5. Space, Mobility, and Interaction – Robin James Smith
4.6. Nature and the Environment in Interaction – Anthony Puddephatt
4.7. The Social Construction of Time – Michael G. Flaherty
4.8. Collective Memory – Lisa-Jo van den Scott
Part 5 – Interactionism, Media and the Internet
5.1. Media Logic, Fear, and the Construction of Terrorism – David Altheide
5.2. Public Fear and the Media – Joel Best
5.3. Policing and Social Media – Chris Schneider
5.4. Interactionism and online identity: How has interactionism contributed to understandings of online identity? – Hannah Ditchfield
5.5. Physical Co-presence and Distinctive Features of Online Interactions – Xiaoli Tian and Yui Fung Yip
5.6. Happy Birthday Michael Jackson: Dead Celebrity and Online Interaction – Kerry O. Ferris
5.7. Multi-Player Online Gaming – David Kirschner
Part 6 – New Developments in Methods
6.1. Situational Analysis as Critical Pragmatist Interactionism – Carrie Friese, Rachel Washburn & Adele Clarke
6.2. Video in Interactionist Research – René Tuma
6.3. Digital Naturalism: Ethnography in Networked Worlds: Ethnography in Networked Worlds – Michael Dellwing
6.4. Ethics in Symbolic Interactionist Research – Will & Deborah van den Hoonard
Part 7 – Reimagining Interactionism
7.1. Toward an expanded Definition of Interactionism – Linda Liska Belgrave, Kapriskie Seide and Kathy Charmaz
7.2. Some Antinomies of Interactionism – Martyn Hammersley
7.3. Interactionist Research: Extending Methods, Extending Fields – Emilie Morwenna Whitaker & Paul Atkinson
7.4. The New Horizons of Symbolic Interactionism – Kent Sandstrom, Lisa K. van den Scott & Gary Alan Fine
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