Bernard N Meltzer
Biographic Data
| ID | 106441 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bernard N Meltzer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bernard N |
| FAMILY NAME | Meltzer |
| SIGNATURE | MELTZER B N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central Michigan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1946 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Chicago and Iowa Schools of Sysbolic Interactionism
Although the nature of symbolic interaction theory has been explored and analyzed as a substantive school in itself, there have been no analyses of the variations that exist within the approach. This chapter explores the differences between two major variations within the interactionist orientation: the Chicago school and the Iowa school. During the past generation, the two foremost exponents of the symbolic interactionist orientation have been H…
The genesis of symbolic interactionism
It is difficult to define what constitutes symbolic interactionism as a theoretical perspective in sociology. In the interactionist image, human beings are defined as self-reflective beings. The interactionist view of human nature is built upon Cooley’s dictum that human nature is a group nature, as well as the idea that the self is a process that emerges out of the people. In the interactionist perspective, the individual is seen as existing in …
Varieties of symbolic interactionism
Contemporary symbolic interactionism comprehends several diverse schools of thought. Their number and character vary according to differing conceptions of the central ideas that constitute the general orientation. The ‘offshoots’ of interactionism are held to have stemmed from the essential ambiguities and contradictions in the Meadian statement of the general theory, particularly with regard to the issue of determinacy and indeterminacy in human…
Criticisms of Symbolic Interactionism
This chapter establishes a list of some representative criticisms, most of them recent, both of symbolic interactionism and of certain symbolic interactionists. It deals almost exclusively with present-day inter-actionists. The chapter examines these critical commentaries in an attempt to assess whether they tend to be of specific ‘types’ such that many of them can meaningfully be grouped together. The only classification is that distinguishing b…
Symbolic Interactionism: Genesis, Varieties and Criticism
Symbolic interactionsim is of major importance in contemporary sociology. In this study, three authorities in the field collaborate to define symbolic interactionism and to describe, and present criticism of, the interactionist perspective. The contributions of G.H. Mead, J. Dewey, C.H. Cooley, W.I. Thomas and other theorists to the interactionist viewpoint on human behaviour and social life are examined. There is a systematic discussion of the d…
Resentment and Ressentiment
In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, Friedrich Nietzsche formulated, and Max Scheler further developed, the concept of ressentiment. Nietzsche linked this emotion with the rise of Christian morality, while Scheler linked it primarily with the formation of the bourgeois ethos in Western Europe. The present paper endeavors to show similarities and differences between the emotion thus designated a…
Agency, Chance, and Causality: A Rejoinder
Y a-t-il une difference pratique et theorique entre dire qu'un acte est indetermine et affirmer qu'il est determine de facon si complexe qu'aucune prediction n'est possible ? Il doit etre possible de developper une perspective probabiliste des actes des acteurs sociaux ordinairement envisages sous l'angle de l'analyse causale deterministe. L'A. propose donc une « methodologie probabiliste » qui traitera les phases intrinseques des actions comme c…
Chance in Human Affairs
Under the sway of the postulate of determinism, sociologists (with some exceptions) have given little direct attention to sheerly fortuitous events. Such events are analytically distinguishable from those which are considered the results of chance only because we currently lack knowledge of their causation. Exemplifications of pure chance abound in the various arts and sciences, including sociology (especially in work by symbolic interactionists)…
Chinese Subculture and Criminality: Non-Traditional Crime Groups in America.Ko-lin Chin
How Feasible Is the Integration of Paradigms
Social Mobility: A Study of Social Control and Insatiability
Symbolic Interactionism and Psychoanalysis: Some Convergences, Divergences, and Complementarities
In spite of a number of fundamental contrasts between the assumptions and methodologies of symbolic interactionist and psychoanalytic theories of social interaction in general and socialization in particular, the two perspectives embrace several common interpretations of human action. Moreover, many of the divergences can be appreciated as complementing, rather than contradicting, each other. Some of the more important convergences and complement…
Symbolic Aspects of Interaction
Symbolic Interactionism: Genesis, Varieties and Criticism
The Social Reality of Ethnic America
Blumer and Merton: Social Roles and Sociological Theories
(1974). Blumer and Merton: Social Roles and Sociological Theories. Sociological Focus: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 1-14
The Conquest of Violence: Order and Liberty in Britain
The Problem of Self
The Journeying Self: A Study in Philosophy and Social Role
Symbolic Interaction: A Reader in Social Psychology
Self-Evaluation: Concepts and Studies
Some Correlates of Class Consciousness Among Textile Workers
Data from an earlier study of textile workers are used to construct an index of class consciousness. The index is based on the Marxist assumption that class-conscious workers tend to perceive the class structure in dichotomous terms, the criteria of class placement in economic terms, class relationships as antagonistic, classes as cohesive entities, and the class system as neither desirable nor inevitable. Investigation of the relationships betwe…
Attitudes of Textile Workers to Class Structure
Personal interviews guided by an open-ended schedule revealed that in a sample of textile workers in an urban, industrialized, and unionized community, while the saliency of class was generally limited, class awareness was widespread. Two and three class divisions of society were percived most commonly. In defining class membership, economic criteria predominated. Although class relationships were seldom described in antagonistic terms, many work…
The Productivity of Social Scientists
In an attempt to isolate predictive correlates of the publishing of articles and books by social scientists, a questionnaire was sent out. It inquired into the relationships between amount and quality of publication by social scientists and various educational factors. Several of the factors studied are found to show potential utility for predicting productivity
Scientists Starred, 1903-43 in "American Men of Science." . Stephen Sargent Visher
Symbolic Interactionism: Genesis, Varieties and Criticism
Symbolic interactionsim is of major importance in contemporary sociology. In this study, three authorities in the field collaborate to define symbolic interactionism and to describe, and present criticism of, the interactionist perspective. The contributions of G.H. Mead, J. Dewey, C.H. Cooley, W.I. Thomas and other theorists to the interactionist viewpoint on human behaviour and social life are examined. There is a systematic discussion of the d…
Resentment and Ressentiment
In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, Friedrich Nietzsche formulated, and Max Scheler further developed, the concept of ressentiment. Nietzsche linked this emotion with the rise of Christian morality, while Scheler linked it primarily with the formation of the bourgeois ethos in Western Europe. The present paper endeavors to show similarities and differences between the emotion thus designated a…
Some Correlates of Class Consciousness Among Textile Workers
Data from an earlier study of textile workers are used to construct an index of class consciousness. The index is based on the Marxist assumption that class-conscious workers tend to perceive the class structure in dichotomous terms, the criteria of class placement in economic terms, class relationships as antagonistic, classes as cohesive entities, and the class system as neither desirable nor inevitable. Investigation of the relationships betwe…
The Productivity of Social Scientists
In an attempt to isolate predictive correlates of the publishing of articles and books by social scientists, a questionnaire was sent out. It inquired into the relationships between amount and quality of publication by social scientists and various educational factors. Several of the factors studied are found to show potential utility for predicting productivity
Attitudes of Textile Workers to Class Structure
Personal interviews guided by an open-ended schedule revealed that in a sample of textile workers in an urban, industrialized, and unionized community, while the saliency of class was generally limited, class awareness was widespread. Two and three class divisions of society were percived most commonly. In defining class membership, economic criteria predominated. Although class relationships were seldom described in antagonistic terms, many work…
Chance in Human Affairs
Under the sway of the postulate of determinism, sociologists (with some exceptions) have given little direct attention to sheerly fortuitous events. Such events are analytically distinguishable from those which are considered the results of chance only because we currently lack knowledge of their causation. Exemplifications of pure chance abound in the various arts and sciences, including sociology (especially in work by symbolic interactionists)…
Symbolic Interaction: A Reader in Social Psychology
Predicting Length of Hospitalization of Mental Patients
Two attempts to predict the length of hospitalization of first-admission schizophrenic and manic-depressive patients are reported. One is based on the assignment of predictive weights to data, for each of 689 cases, concerning thirty factors presumed to be associated with length of hospitalization. The second is based on the assignment of predictive weights to data, for the same cases, concerning three factors which have been found to show a rela…
Symbolic Interactionism and Psychoanalysis: Some Convergences, Divergences, and Complementarities
In spite of a number of fundamental contrasts between the assumptions and methodologies of symbolic interactionist and psychoanalytic theories of social interaction in general and socialization in particular, the two perspectives embrace several common interpretations of human action. Moreover, many of the divergences can be appreciated as complementing, rather than contradicting, each other. Some of the more important convergences and complement…
Predicting Length of Hospitalization of Mental Patients
Two attempts to predict the length of hospitalization of first-admission schizophrenic and manic-depressive patients are reported. One is based on the assignment of predictive weights to data, for each of 689 cases, concerning thirty factors presumed to be associated with length of hospitalization. The second is based on the assignment of predictive weights to data, for the same cases, concerning three factors which have been found to show a rela…
Scientists Starred, 1903-43 in "American Men of Science." . Stephen Sargent Visher
The Productivity of Social Scientists
In an attempt to isolate predictive correlates of the publishing of articles and books by social scientists, a questionnaire was sent out. It inquired into the relationships between amount and quality of publication by social scientists and various educational factors. Several of the factors studied are found to show potential utility for predicting productivity
Attitudes of Textile Workers to Class Structure
Personal interviews guided by an open-ended schedule revealed that in a sample of textile workers in an urban, industrialized, and unionized community, while the saliency of class was generally limited, class awareness was widespread. Two and three class divisions of society were percived most commonly. In defining class membership, economic criteria predominated. Although class relationships were seldom described in antagonistic terms, many work…
Some Correlates of Class Consciousness Among Textile Workers
Data from an earlier study of textile workers are used to construct an index of class consciousness. The index is based on the Marxist assumption that class-conscious workers tend to perceive the class structure in dichotomous terms, the criteria of class placement in economic terms, class relationships as antagonistic, classes as cohesive entities, and the class system as neither desirable nor inevitable. Investigation of the relationships betwe…
Symbolic Interaction: A Reader in Social Psychology
Self-Evaluation: Concepts and Studies
The Journeying Self: A Study in Philosophy and Social Role
The Conquest of Violence: Order and Liberty in Britain
The Problem of Self
Blumer and Merton: Social Roles and Sociological Theories
(1974). Blumer and Merton: Social Roles and Sociological Theories. Sociological Focus: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 1-14
The Social Reality of Ethnic America
Symbolic Interactionism: Genesis, Varieties and Criticism
Symbolic Aspects of Interaction
Symbolic Interactionism and Psychoanalysis: Some Convergences, Divergences, and Complementarities
In spite of a number of fundamental contrasts between the assumptions and methodologies of symbolic interactionist and psychoanalytic theories of social interaction in general and socialization in particular, the two perspectives embrace several common interpretations of human action. Moreover, many of the divergences can be appreciated as complementing, rather than contradicting, each other. Some of the more important convergences and complement…
How Feasible Is the Integration of Paradigms
Social Mobility: A Study of Social Control and Insatiability
Chinese Subculture and Criminality: Non-Traditional Crime Groups in America.Ko-lin Chin
Chance in Human Affairs
Under the sway of the postulate of determinism, sociologists (with some exceptions) have given little direct attention to sheerly fortuitous events. Such events are analytically distinguishable from those which are considered the results of chance only because we currently lack knowledge of their causation. Exemplifications of pure chance abound in the various arts and sciences, including sociology (especially in work by symbolic interactionists)…
Agency, Chance, and Causality: A Rejoinder
Y a-t-il une difference pratique et theorique entre dire qu'un acte est indetermine et affirmer qu'il est determine de facon si complexe qu'aucune prediction n'est possible ? Il doit etre possible de developper une perspective probabiliste des actes des acteurs sociaux ordinairement envisages sous l'angle de l'analyse causale deterministe. L'A. propose donc une « methodologie probabiliste » qui traitera les phases intrinseques des actions comme c…
Resentment and Ressentiment
In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, Friedrich Nietzsche formulated, and Max Scheler further developed, the concept of ressentiment. Nietzsche linked this emotion with the rise of Christian morality, while Scheler linked it primarily with the formation of the bourgeois ethos in Western Europe. The present paper endeavors to show similarities and differences between the emotion thus designated a…
The genesis of symbolic interactionism
It is difficult to define what constitutes symbolic interactionism as a theoretical perspective in sociology. In the interactionist image, human beings are defined as self-reflective beings. The interactionist view of human nature is built upon Cooley’s dictum that human nature is a group nature, as well as the idea that the self is a process that emerges out of the people. In the interactionist perspective, the individual is seen as existing in …
Varieties of symbolic interactionism
Contemporary symbolic interactionism comprehends several diverse schools of thought. Their number and character vary according to differing conceptions of the central ideas that constitute the general orientation. The ‘offshoots’ of interactionism are held to have stemmed from the essential ambiguities and contradictions in the Meadian statement of the general theory, particularly with regard to the issue of determinacy and indeterminacy in human…
Criticisms of Symbolic Interactionism
This chapter establishes a list of some representative criticisms, most of them recent, both of symbolic interactionism and of certain symbolic interactionists. It deals almost exclusively with present-day inter-actionists. The chapter examines these critical commentaries in an attempt to assess whether they tend to be of specific ‘types’ such that many of them can meaningfully be grouped together. The only classification is that distinguishing b…
Symbolic Interactionism: Genesis, Varieties and Criticism
Symbolic interactionsim is of major importance in contemporary sociology. In this study, three authorities in the field collaborate to define symbolic interactionism and to describe, and present criticism of, the interactionist perspective. The contributions of G.H. Mead, J. Dewey, C.H. Cooley, W.I. Thomas and other theorists to the interactionist viewpoint on human behaviour and social life are examined. There is a systematic discussion of the d…
Sociology (23 works) · Psychology (16 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Philosophy (12 works) · Social science (11 works) · Symbolic interactionism (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (7 works) · Interactionism (7 works) · Law (7 works)