Symbolic Interaction and Inequality

Shing-Ling S. Chen

• Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN: 9781837976904
• eBook ISBN: 9781837976911
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Theory
• Index: Social Sciences

Acting as a follow up to Volume 41 of Studies in Symbolic Interaction (2013), Symbolic Interaction and Inequality explores further the concept of Radical Interactionism, a perspective of researching domination and subordination introduced by scholar Lonnie Athens.

Demonstrating advancements made in Radical Interactionism over the past decade, chapters examine the omnipresent and insidious nature of inequality as well as its social construction among family members, cisgender and gender-diverse people, as well as university students and personnel, particularly college athletes.

Highlighting fruitful accomplishments achieved by a range of symbolic interactionists, this volume exhibits the significance of studying inequality, a venture that not only enriches symbolic interactionism but human life as a whole.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Editors
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• A Tribute to Norman K. Denzin
• About the Editor
• About the Contributors
• Chapter 1 Inequality in Everyday Life
• Chapter 2 Identity: Relations, Habitats, Artifacts and Alienation
• Chapter 3 “Too Many Genders?”: Ambiguity as Resistance in the Biographical Work of Gender-Diverse People
• Chapter 4 A Radical Interactionist Perspective on Family Conflicts and Mothers With Substance Use Problems
• Chapter 5 Breaking Step: Silence, Resonance, and Everyday Precariousness in Academic Settings
• Chapter 6 First-Generation Students’ Identity Construction, Concealment, and COVID-Driven Reckonings: Reconciling Self-Definitions Amid Institutional Contradiction
• Chapter 7 Criminalized Subjectivity and Racial Stigma: Implications for the Identity and Self-Concept of Black University Students
• Chapter 8 Performance or Appearance: Paradoxical Generalized Others of the College Female Athletes
• Index