Updating Charles H. Cooley
This book explores the contemporary relevance of Charles H. Cooleys thought, bringing together scholars from the US, Europe and Australia to reflect on Cooleys theory and legacy. Offering an up-to-date analysis of Cooleys reception in the history of the social sciences, an examination of epistemological and methodological advances on his work, critical assessments and novel articulations of his major ideas, and a consideration of new directions in scholarship that draws on Cooleys thought, Updating Charles H. Cooley will appeal to sociologists with interests in social theory, interactionism, the history of sociology, social psychology, and the sociology of emotions.
Natalia Ruiz-Junco is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work at Auburn University, USA. Her research interests are in social theory, social psychology, sociology of emotions, and qualitative methods. She has published work in Sociology Compass , Symbolic Interaction and The Journal of Contemporary Ethnography , among other outlets.
Baptiste Brossard is Lecturer in the School of Sociology at The Australian National University, Australia. His research interests are in mental health, sociological theory and qualitative methods. He is the first translator of Cooley into French, and author of Why Do We Hurt Ourselves? Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life (2018).
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Contemporary Perspectives on a Sociological Classic
Natalia Ruiz-Junco and Baptiste Brossard
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Updating Charles H. Cooley
Contemporary Perspectives on a
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Edited by Natalia Ruiz-Junco and
Baptiste Brossard
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Baptiste Brossard is Lecturer at the Australian National University School of Sociology. His research interests are mental health, sociological theory and qualitative methods. He is the first translator of Cooley into French. He recently published Why Do We Hurt Ourselves? Understanding Self-Harm in Social Life (University of Indiana Press, 2018).
Gary Alan Fine is James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the recipient of several prestigious fellowships. His books include Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work (University of California Press, 1996), Morel Tales: The Culture of Mushrooming (Harvard University Press, 1998), Sticky Reputations: The Politics of Collective Memory in Midcentury America (Routledge, 2011), and Players and Pawns: How Chess Builds Community and Culture (University of Chicago Press, 2015). Gary Alan Fine is a past President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, the Midwest Sociological Society, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems.
Daniel R. Huebner is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He is the author of Becoming Mead: The Social Process of Academic Knowledge (University of Chicago Press, 2014), and co-editor with Hans Joas of George H. Meads posthumous Mind, Self, and Society: The Definitive Edition (University of Chicago Press, 2015) and the edited volume of new contributions The Timeliness of George Herbert Mead (University of Chicago Press, 2016).
Jonathan B. Imber is Jean Glasscock Professor of Sociology at Wellesley College. Prior to that he was the Class of 1949 Professor in Ethics. His research is both sociological and historical, addressing the moral and ethical foundations of modern medicine and the role that religious authority has played in defining the medical vocation. His book, Trusting Doctors: The Decline of Moral Authority in American Medicine (Princeton University Press, 2008) examines how physicians acquired a revered place among all modern professions. His present work focuses on the rise in recent years of what has come to be called religious bioethics, represented in all the major faith traditions. He has also edited numerous books on a variety of sociological topics, including philanthropy, therapeutic culture, science policy, and the relationship between markets and religion. Jonathan Imber has been editor-in-chief of Society since 1998, and before that he was editor of The American Sociologist and co-editor of Qualitative Sociology .