Examines a series of theoretical and methodological issues faced by social scientists in interpretive and ethnographic studies of human group life.

At the heart of the sociological enterprise is the idea that human behavior is the product of community life; that people's behaviors cannot be reduced to indiv

Examines a series of theoretical and methodological issues faced by social scientists in interpretive and ethnographic studies of human group life.

To mark 40 volumes of Studies in Symbolic Interaction, this volume includes a special introduction from Series Editor, Norman K. Denzin. This 40th volume advanc