Peter M Hall
Biographic Data
| ID | 100307 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter M Hall |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter M |
| FAMILY NAME | Hall |
| SIGNATURE | HALL P M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8525-3282 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 53 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 443 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1965 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
From deployment to debriefing
Hostage and crisis negotiation is one tactical option available to incident commanders when responding to critical incidents. Whilst several models of negotiation exist, there is limited research addressing negotiation from a United Kingdom perspective. This paper presents findings from semi-structured interviews with 15 negotiators from nine police forces in England. Data were analysed using grounded theory and 6 primary, 11 secondary, 19 tertia…
The self-perceived successful hostage and crisis negotiator profile
Hostage and crisis negotiators serve a vital function within modern-day policing and can play a role in whether individuals live or die. As such, it is important for us to understand which police officers are more suited to this complex and challenging role, to ensure that the most effective negotiators are selected and trained. The current paper outlines the findings from interviews conducted with 15 negotiators from nine English police forces. …
The Right to Resist or a Case of Injustice? Meta-Power in the Oil and Gas Fields
Recent technological innovations in unconventional oil and gas (UOG) production have transformed the global energy landscape. The combination of hydraulic fracturing—commonly referred to as “fracking”—with horizontal drilling in shale plays across the United States has made the nation the top producer of both natural gas and petroleum, after a long hiatus from the top of the list. However, the public is largely marginalized from collective decisi…
Slavery's Capitalism
Editors' Page
This land is your land, maybe
Metapower
The concept of power is central to the sociological pursuit but is also of concern across the social sciences in general. While commonly conceptualized in terms of control or the capacity of agents to act, to overcome resistance, or to mobilize resources, a larger concern must be how expressions of power provide the structured mechanisms through which agentic expressions of power are enacted. This larger and expanded sense of the concept of power…
Symbolic Interaction
Symbolic interaction is a theoretical perspective that has roots in pragmatism with its emphasis on activity, processes, and dissolving dualisms. The perspective has two branches, social psychology and social organization, which have been merged into interactionism. The works of G.H. Mead, Herbert Blumer, and Everett Hughes have been foundational. The conceptual apparatus builds from joint action and situations to social worlds and social orders.…
The Human and Environmental Impacts of Fracking
The Human and Environmental Impacts of Fracking: How Fracturing Shale for Gas Affects Us and Our World." The Social Science Journal, 53(4), pp. 585–586
What's My Line? Will the Real George Herbert Mead Stand Up? (Applause)
The Present, the Past, and a Desired Future
The Meta-Power Paradigm
Meta‐Power
In the social sciences, power and control are typically conceptualized in terms of the capacity or right of one agent (individual or collective) to get another agent to act in some specified way or even to act against her own will (Max Weber). In various ways, the most prominent contemporary analyses (for instance, Peter Blau and Robert Dahl, among others) view power as principally one actor's control of the behavior of another actor. This approa…
Symbolic Interaction
Symbolic interactionism (also known as interactionism) is a uniquely American theoretical perspective that draws its primary inspiration from pragmatism. It refers to humans’ distinctive use of language to create symbols, common meanings, for thinking and communication with others. Herbert Blumer (1969) coined the term to express his “reading” of George Herbert Mead's thought developed in the early 1900s and codified it in the elaboration of thre…
A 'Mensch' from Missouri
Re‐urbanizing the suburbs? The role of theatre, the arts and urban studies
We talk and write continually about cities and yet increasingly we live in urbanized spaces that have few of the characteristics of the classic city. Some of these spaces are referred to as suburbs and others as mere urban sprawl. We need, however, to be much more specific about the diverse forms of settlement we are considering and their possibilities. Could, for example, some of the towns and cities that have been suburbanized develop once agai…
Interactionism, Social Organization, and Social Processes
With its roots in American pragmatism, symbolic interactionism has created a distinctive perspective and produced numerous important contributions and now offers significant prospects for the future. In this article, I review my intellectual journey with this perspective over forty years. This journey was initiated within the American society, sociology, and symbolic interaction of circa 1960. I note many of the contributions made by interactioni…
Interactionism and the Construction of Sociology
Meta-Power, Social Organization, and the Shaping of Social Action
Interactionist analyses of social organization stimulate examination of how social situations and collective activity are shaped. Meta-power, the creation and control of distal situations, and organization as a structuration of meta-power are used as tools for exploring the shaping of situations. Five meta-power processes are presented: strategic agency, rules and conventions, structuring situations, culture construction, and empowering delegates…
Revisiting the Past and Anticipating the Future
Policy as the Transformation of Intentions
The sociological investigation of public policy continues to be plagued by scholarly adherence to a conventional framework that reifies the policy process as a set of segmented and sequential stages. To overcome this problem, policy is presented as the processual, ongoing practical accomplishment of the transformation of intentions. Within this framework, the realization of intentions is shown as both constrained and enabled by (1) organizational…
From Art to Politics
The global city
The Consequences of Qualitative Analysis for Sociological Theory
This article demonstrates how mesodomain analysis and multilevel longitudinal qualitative research contribute to theorizing about major issues, (e.g., macro/micro dichotomy). Mesodomain analysis examines the consequential, dialectical, and contingent intersections of history, structure, and social action. Results from a processual study of state educational policy show its transformations in movement from the national level through state levels d…
Organizational Communication. Peter K. Manning
A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis of Politics
The purpose of this article will be to outline a symbolic interactionist approach to the study of politics in the United States. In the course of this presentation, the basic assumptions and concepts of the interactionist perspective will be presented, culminating in a model of society as a negotiated order. This model in conjunction with definitions of power and politics will provide the basis for analyzing the processes of power. The article wi…
Social Problems, Problematic Situations, and Quasi-Theories
Meta-Power, Social Organization, and the Shaping of Social Action
Interactionist analyses of social organization stimulate examination of how social situations and collective activity are shaped. Meta-power, the creation and control of distal situations, and organization as a structuration of meta-power are used as tools for exploring the shaping of situations. Five meta-power processes are presented: strategic agency, rules and conventions, structuring situations, culture construction, and empowering delegates…
Presidential Address
This article presents a set of six analytic categories—collective activity, network, conventions-practices, resources, processuality-temporality, and grounding—collectively as a paradigm for studying social organization. A review of recent interactionist scholarship generated these categories. The article focuses on the meso domain, where situated activity, history, and structure converge. Some theoretical, methodological, and substantive implica…
The Quasi-Theory of Communication and the Management of Dissent
A series of Presidential actions and other events connected with the recent use of U.S. troops in Cambodia suggest a preoccupation with communication (its presence or absence, its process, and its style) that deflected and obscured the basic issue of the war by defining events in terms of a quasi-theory of communication failure. The cultural and situational bases of such a theory of communication failure as a means of explaining and coping with s…
Interactionism, Social Organization, and Social Processes
With its roots in American pragmatism, symbolic interactionism has created a distinctive perspective and produced numerous important contributions and now offers significant prospects for the future. In this article, I review my intellectual journey with this perspective over forty years. This journey was initiated within the American society, sociology, and symbolic interaction of circa 1960. I note many of the contributions made by interactioni…
The Social Conditions of the Negotiated Order
social conditions does a phenomenon occur? This article explores that question with reference to when the negotiated order per-spective is an apt description of an organization. Early work on which the perspective is based challenged the stable, structured, functionalist view of organizations by clearly depicting continuous ongoing dynamic change via negotiations in medical, profes-sional, and hospital settings (Strauss et al., 1963, 1964; Bucher…
Policy as the Transformation of Intentions
The sociological investigation of public policy continues to be plagued by scholarly adherence to a conventional framework that reifies the policy process as a set of segmented and sequential stages. To overcome this problem, policy is presented as the processual, ongoing practical accomplishment of the transformation of intentions. Within this framework, the realization of intentions is shown as both constrained and enabled by (1) organizational…
The Consequences of Qualitative Analysis for Sociological Theory
This article demonstrates how mesodomain analysis and multilevel longitudinal qualitative research contribute to theorizing about major issues, (e.g., macro/micro dichotomy). Mesodomain analysis examines the consequential, dialectical, and contingent intersections of history, structure, and social action. Results from a processual study of state educational policy show its transformations in movement from the national level through state levels d…
Slavery's Capitalism
Identification with the Delinquent Subculture and Level of Self-Evaluation
This land is your land, maybe
The handshake as interaction
The global city
Erving
Edward E. Brent, Jr., Jack Glazier, Keith Jamtgaard, Ed Wetzel, Peter M. Hall, Michael Dalecki, Abdulah Bah, Erving: A Program to Teach Sociological Reasoning from the Dramaturgical Perspective, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 38-48
Modern Social Theories
Ritual, Politics, and Power
Editors' Page
The Present, the Past, and a Desired Future
Comparative Political Economy as Comparative History
On Guiding Inquiry
Interaction in Everyday Life
Structuring Symbolic Interaction
The basic stance of symbolic interaction as developed by Blumer is presented. Recent writings on power, complex organization, negotiations, mass media, social problems, strategic analysis, and aligning actions are briefly summarized to show how the perspective has changed in the last decade. The conclusion sketches the implications of these current trends for the analysis of communication
Modern Social Theories
Casework
Part One: The Theoretical Framework Chapter 1: Casework: Then and Now Chapter 2: The Psychosocial Frame of Reference: An Overview Chapter 3: Examples of Clinical Social Work Practice Chapter 4: The Hollis Classification of Casework Treatment Part Two: Treatment: An Analysis of Procedures Chapter 5: Sustainment, Direct Influence, and Exploration-Description-Ventilation Chapter 6: Reflective Discussion of the Person-Situation Configuration Chapter …
Identification with the Delinquent Subculture and Level of Self-Evaluation
Pressures on Britain's Land Resources
The Quasi-Theory of Communication and the Management of Dissent
A series of Presidential actions and other events connected with the recent use of U.S. troops in Cambodia suggest a preoccupation with communication (its presence or absence, its process, and its style) that deflected and obscured the basic issue of the war by defining events in terms of a quasi-theory of communication failure. The cultural and situational bases of such a theory of communication failure as a means of explaining and coping with s…
The Negotiation of Identities
A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis of Politics
The purpose of this article will be to outline a symbolic interactionist approach to the study of politics in the United States. In the course of this presentation, the basic assumptions and concepts of the interactionist perspective will be presented, culminating in a model of society as a negotiated order. This model in conjunction with definitions of power and politics will provide the basis for analyzing the processes of power. The article wi…
Social Problems, Problematic Situations, and Quasi-Theories
Reforming British Land-Use Planning
Work, women, and class
Thematic Issue on Race and Ethnicity
(1977). Thematic Issue on Race and Ethnicity. The Sociological Quarterly: Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 447-447
Political Education and Stability
Homo americanus
Profane Culture
Structuring Symbolic Interaction
The basic stance of symbolic interaction as developed by Blumer is presented. Recent writings on power, complex organization, negotiations, mass media, social problems, strategic analysis, and aligning actions are briefly summarized to show how the perspective has changed in the last decade. The conclusion sketches the implications of these current trends for the analysis of communication
Interaction in Everyday Life
The Social Conditions of the Negotiated Order
social conditions does a phenomenon occur? This article explores that question with reference to when the negotiated order per-spective is an apt description of an organization. Early work on which the perspective is based challenged the stable, structured, functionalist view of organizations by clearly depicting continuous ongoing dynamic change via negotiations in medical, profes-sional, and hospital settings (Strauss et al., 1963, 1964; Bucher…
The handshake as interaction
On Guiding Inquiry
Language and Politics
Social Theories and Multiple Realities
Presidential Address
This article presents a set of six analytic categories—collective activity, network, conventions-practices, resources, processuality-temporality, and grounding—collectively as a paradigm for studying social organization. A review of recent interactionist scholarship generated these categories. The article focuses on the meso domain, where situated activity, history, and structure converge. Some theoretical, methodological, and substantive implica…
Strategic planning
Erving
Edward E. Brent, Jr., Jack Glazier, Keith Jamtgaard, Ed Wetzel, Peter M. Hall, Michael Dalecki, Abdulah Bah, Erving: A Program to Teach Sociological Reasoning from the Dramaturgical Perspective, Teaching Sociology, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Jan., 1989), pp. 38-48
And that was the future
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