Norbert Wiley
Biographic Data
| ID | 112672 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norbert Wiley |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norbert |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiley |
| SIGNATURE | WILEY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 33 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 165 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Symbolic Interactionist Lobby and the Fight over a Balanced American Sociological Review
Interview with Harold Garfinkel
The Rhetoric of Signs
Inner Speech and the Dialogical Self: An Unexplored Continent
Interviewing Herbert Blumer
In March of 1982, I interviewed Blumer about doing field research with Symbolic Interactionist ideas. I was teaching a course on that topic at UC Santa Cruz. After Herb discussed the field work issues, he turned to his biography and early life
The Post-Modern Self: A Retrospective
A Mead–Cooley Merger
Inner Speech as a Language: A Saussurean Inquiry
The idea that thinking is a form of talking to oneself was discussed in classical Greece, analyzed by the Medievals and treated as a central issue by the American pragmatists. But whether inner speech is a language unto itself, distinct from outer language, has not been determined. To this end I ask how Saussure's defining ideas about language apply to inner speech. I show that Saussure's ideas, while partly usable, are mainly a poor fit. Inner s…
Peirce and the Founding of American Sociology
This paper argues that Charles Sanders Peirce contributed significantly to the founding of American sociology, doing so at the level of philosophical presuppositions or meta-sociology. I emphasize two of his ideas. One is semiotics, which is virtually the same as the anthropologists' concept of culture. This latter concept in turn was essential to clarifying the sociologists' idea of the social or society. Peirce also created the modern theory of…
American Political Mythology from Kennedy to Nixon
The Self as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Using a combination of psychoanalytic and symbolic interactionist ideas, this article portrays the development of the self as a self-fulfilling prophecy (SFP). A prominent psychoanalytic version of this idea is presented by Lacan's two mirror theories of the self. A prominent and more familiar symbolic interactionist account of the self as self-fulfilling prophecy is the formulation by William I. Thomas and Dorothy Thomas, which suggests that onc…
Postmodern Semiotics: Material Culture and the Forms of Postmodern Life
Part I: Theoretical Considerations: 1. Semiotics, Socio-Semiotics and Postmodernism: From Idealist to Materialist Theories of the Sign. 2. The System of Objects and the Commodification of Everyday Life: The Early Baudrillard. 3. The Substance of the Expression: The Role of Material Culture in Symbolic Interaction. Part II: The Substance of the Expression: Case Studies: 4. Recapturing the Center: A Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Shopping Malls5. Disne…
The Semiotic Self
The Semiotic Self
History of the Self: From Primates to Present
The article begins with a semiotic theory of how human selves emerged from the primates. It then follows the history of the self from classical Greece, throught the Christian Middle Ages, to early industrialization (as seen by Durkheim) and later industrialization (as seen by Weber). The story is largely an implicit struggle between self and society for what might be called the steering power, or 'cybernetic control,' of life
Peirce's Approach to the Self: A Semiotic Perspective on Human Subjectivity, by Vincent M. Colapietro
The History and Politics of Recent Sociological Theory
Social theory: Past and present
The Marx-Weber Debate
Response to Ritzer
classificatory scheme it loses much of its bite. It changes from a research instrument into something approaching a textbook formula. Moreover it is no longer in the sense in which I am using it. My space is a bare bones frame of reference, pre-theoretical and pre-causal. Ritzer's space, which draws on the primacy of subjective or objective factors, is postcausal. I have laid out three areas of disagreeent with Ritzer. To do this I had to overemp…
The Marx-Weber Debate
Introduction - Norbert Wiley PART ONE: THEORETICAL OVERVIEW Theoretical Space and Space for Theory in World-Historical Social Science - Giovanni Arrighi and Terence K Hopkins Class Closure and the Historical/Structural Limits of the Marx-Weber Convergence - Morton Wenger PART TWO: CLASS CONFLICT AND THE STATE The Neo-Marxist Synthesis of Marx and Weber on Class - Val Burris A Dynamic Simulation of Marx's Model of Capitalism - Robert Hanneman and …
The Complementarity of Durkheim and Mead
Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory Since World War II. Jeffrey C. Alexander
The Micro-Macro Problem in Social Theory
This paper will locate and examine the micro-macro problem in the context of the larger problem of levels, the latter tending to include solutions to the former. Levels theory is meta-theoretical, for it is presuppositional to substantive or theory. Levels theory constitutes the levels and therefore the kinds of social reality, while substantive theory looks for causal connections within and among the levels. The priority of levels over sectors t…
Early American Sociology and the Polish Peasant
The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918-20), by W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, is something of a forgotten classic in sociology. The book has been kept alive in recent decades primarily by social historians (Handlin, 1951; Cravens, 1978; Persons, 1958; Zaretsky, 1984; Elder, 1981) American sociologists did not fully appreciate its theoretical importance when it appeared nor have they since.' The main importance of the book was in found…
The Ethnic Mobility Trap and Stratification Theory
A mobility trap is a structural condition in which the means for moving up within a stratum are contrary to those for moving to the next higher stratum. The underlying metaphor is that of climbing a tree, rather than a "social ladder," with various possibilities of non-vertical and dead-end forms of ascent. Within this framework several theoretical issues are reformulated: (a) the chances for mobility at different levels within a stratum, (b) the…
Early American Sociology and the Polish Peasant
The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918-20), by W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, is something of a forgotten classic in sociology. The book has been kept alive in recent decades primarily by social historians (Handlin, 1951; Cravens, 1978; Persons, 1958; Zaretsky, 1984; Elder, 1981) American sociologists did not fully appreciate its theoretical importance when it appeared nor have they since.' The main importance of the book was in found…
America's Unique Class Politics: The Interplay of the Labor, Credit and Commodity Markets
The Micro-Macro Problem in Social Theory
This paper will locate and examine the micro-macro problem in the context of the larger problem of levels, the latter tending to include solutions to the former. Levels theory is meta-theoretical, for it is presuppositional to substantive or theory. Levels theory constitutes the levels and therefore the kinds of social reality, while substantive theory looks for causal connections within and among the levels. The priority of levels over sectors t…
Peirce and the Founding of American Sociology
This paper argues that Charles Sanders Peirce contributed significantly to the founding of American sociology, doing so at the level of philosophical presuppositions or meta-sociology. I emphasize two of his ideas. One is semiotics, which is virtually the same as the anthropologists' concept of culture. This latter concept in turn was essential to clarifying the sociologists' idea of the social or society. Peirce also created the modern theory of…
The Self as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Using a combination of psychoanalytic and symbolic interactionist ideas, this article portrays the development of the self as a self-fulfilling prophecy (SFP). A prominent psychoanalytic version of this idea is presented by Lacan's two mirror theories of the self. A prominent and more familiar symbolic interactionist account of the self as self-fulfilling prophecy is the formulation by William I. Thomas and Dorothy Thomas, which suggests that onc…
Inner Speech as a Language: A Saussurean Inquiry
The idea that thinking is a form of talking to oneself was discussed in classical Greece, analyzed by the Medievals and treated as a central issue by the American pragmatists. But whether inner speech is a language unto itself, distinct from outer language, has not been determined. To this end I ask how Saussure's defining ideas about language apply to inner speech. I show that Saussure's ideas, while partly usable, are mainly a poor fit. Inner s…
Interview with Harold Garfinkel
The Congruence of Weber and Keynes
psychological and historical contexts of modern capitalism-although Weber concentrated on origins and Keynes on the contemporary period. Their premises and theoretical styles are quite similar and complementary, for the most part, but they differ on whether the investment decision is a rational act. This comparison has implications for the relation between sociology and economics, the relation of Keynes to the structure of social action, and the …
A Mead–Cooley Merger
Recent Journal Sociology: The Substitution of Method for Theory
Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science
Interviewing Herbert Blumer
In March of 1982, I interviewed Blumer about doing field research with Symbolic Interactionist ideas. I was teaching a course on that topic at UC Santa Cruz. After Herb discussed the field work issues, he turned to his biography and early life
History of the Self: From Primates to Present
The article begins with a semiotic theory of how human selves emerged from the primates. It then follows the history of the self from classical Greece, throught the Christian Middle Ages, to early industrialization (as seen by Durkheim) and later industrialization (as seen by Weber). The story is largely an implicit struggle between self and society for what might be called the steering power, or 'cybernetic control,' of life
The Complementarity of Durkheim and Mead
Macro Versus Micro Interpretation: A Note on Porpora's Paper
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Religious and Political Liberalism among Catholics
This study treats the social correlates of religious liberalism and the relation between religious and political liberalism among students at a Catholic University. Concerning the first question it was found that religious liberals tend to have the attributes of central and elite members of the Catholic college community. Concerning the second it was found that, while religious and political liberalism are related, the relationship is strongest a…
America's Unique Class Politics: The Interplay of the Labor, Credit and Commodity Markets
Religious and Political Liberalism among Catholics
This study treats the social correlates of religious liberalism and the relation between religious and political liberalism among students at a Catholic University. Concerning the first question it was found that religious liberals tend to have the attributes of central and elite members of the Catholic college community. Concerning the second it was found that, while religious and political liberalism are related, the relationship is strongest a…
The Ethnic Mobility Trap and Stratification Theory
A mobility trap is a structural condition in which the means for moving up within a stratum are contrary to those for moving to the next higher stratum. The underlying metaphor is that of climbing a tree, rather than a "social ladder," with various possibilities of non-vertical and dead-end forms of ascent. Within this framework several theoretical issues are reformulated: (a) the chances for mobility at different levels within a stratum, (b) the…
Conflict Sociology: Toward an Explanatory Science
The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
Recent Journal Sociology: The Substitution of Method for Theory
Macro Versus Micro Interpretation: A Note on Porpora's Paper
The Congruence of Weber and Keynes
psychological and historical contexts of modern capitalism-although Weber concentrated on origins and Keynes on the contemporary period. Their premises and theoretical styles are quite similar and complementary, for the most part, but they differ on whether the investment decision is a rational act. This comparison has implications for the relation between sociology and economics, the relation of Keynes to the structure of social action, and the …
Early American Sociology and the Polish Peasant
The Polish Peasant in Europe and America (1918-20), by W.I. Thomas and Florian Znaniecki, is something of a forgotten classic in sociology. The book has been kept alive in recent decades primarily by social historians (Handlin, 1951; Cravens, 1978; Persons, 1958; Zaretsky, 1984; Elder, 1981) American sociologists did not fully appreciate its theoretical importance when it appeared nor have they since.' The main importance of the book was in found…
Twenty Lectures: Sociological Theory Since World War II. Jeffrey C. Alexander
The Micro-Macro Problem in Social Theory
This paper will locate and examine the micro-macro problem in the context of the larger problem of levels, the latter tending to include solutions to the former. Levels theory is meta-theoretical, for it is presuppositional to substantive or theory. Levels theory constitutes the levels and therefore the kinds of social reality, while substantive theory looks for causal connections within and among the levels. The priority of levels over sectors t…
Response to Ritzer
classificatory scheme it loses much of its bite. It changes from a research instrument into something approaching a textbook formula. Moreover it is no longer in the sense in which I am using it. My space is a bare bones frame of reference, pre-theoretical and pre-causal. Ritzer's space, which draws on the primacy of subjective or objective factors, is postcausal. I have laid out three areas of disagreeent with Ritzer. To do this I had to overemp…
The Marx-Weber Debate
Introduction - Norbert Wiley PART ONE: THEORETICAL OVERVIEW Theoretical Space and Space for Theory in World-Historical Social Science - Giovanni Arrighi and Terence K Hopkins Class Closure and the Historical/Structural Limits of the Marx-Weber Convergence - Morton Wenger PART TWO: CLASS CONFLICT AND THE STATE The Neo-Marxist Synthesis of Marx and Weber on Class - Val Burris A Dynamic Simulation of Marx's Model of Capitalism - Robert Hanneman and …
The Complementarity of Durkheim and Mead
The History and Politics of Recent Sociological Theory
Social theory: Past and present
The Marx-Weber Debate
Peirce's Approach to the Self: A Semiotic Perspective on Human Subjectivity, by Vincent M. Colapietro
History of the Self: From Primates to Present
The article begins with a semiotic theory of how human selves emerged from the primates. It then follows the history of the self from classical Greece, throught the Christian Middle Ages, to early industrialization (as seen by Durkheim) and later industrialization (as seen by Weber). The story is largely an implicit struggle between self and society for what might be called the steering power, or 'cybernetic control,' of life
The Semiotic Self
Postmodern Semiotics: Material Culture and the Forms of Postmodern Life
Part I: Theoretical Considerations: 1. Semiotics, Socio-Semiotics and Postmodernism: From Idealist to Materialist Theories of the Sign. 2. The System of Objects and the Commodification of Everyday Life: The Early Baudrillard. 3. The Substance of the Expression: The Role of Material Culture in Symbolic Interaction. Part II: The Substance of the Expression: Case Studies: 4. Recapturing the Center: A Socio-Semiotic Analysis of Shopping Malls5. Disne…
The Semiotic Self
American Political Mythology from Kennedy to Nixon
The Self as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Using a combination of psychoanalytic and symbolic interactionist ideas, this article portrays the development of the self as a self-fulfilling prophecy (SFP). A prominent psychoanalytic version of this idea is presented by Lacan's two mirror theories of the self. A prominent and more familiar symbolic interactionist account of the self as self-fulfilling prophecy is the formulation by William I. Thomas and Dorothy Thomas, which suggests that onc…
Inner Speech as a Language: A Saussurean Inquiry
The idea that thinking is a form of talking to oneself was discussed in classical Greece, analyzed by the Medievals and treated as a central issue by the American pragmatists. But whether inner speech is a language unto itself, distinct from outer language, has not been determined. To this end I ask how Saussure's defining ideas about language apply to inner speech. I show that Saussure's ideas, while partly usable, are mainly a poor fit. Inner s…
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