Antony J Puddephatt
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 239769 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Antony J Puddephatt |
| NOMBRES | Antony J |
| APELLIDO | Puddephatt |
| FIRMA | PUDDEPHATT A J |
| AFILIACIONES | Lakehead University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3579-0829 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 35 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 103 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Ethics in Crisis? A Paradigm Revolution for Ethical Research in the Social Sciences
The Constructionist as Claims-Maker? A Pragmatist Intervention into Social Problems Theory
Living Green while Locking Down? Bruno Latour on Covid-19 Lockdowns in the Midst of the Climate Crisis
Nature and the environment in interaction
Nature and the environment have always figured into symbolic interactionist research, but new developments and critiques from environmental sociology have presented challenges as to how this is best accomplished. This chapter examines these critiques and considers how symbolic interactionists have responded to these ontological, epistemological, and political challenges. After considering the key conceptual debates in the field, I review symbolic…
Introduction to the Special Issue. Qualitative Analysis Conference 2011
T he community of scholars that attends the Qualitative Analysis Conference in Canada each year has grown considerably since the event's inception in 1984.The inaugural meeting at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada saw a small number of committed qualitative researchers gather for a conference that was first called, "Deviance in a Cross-Cultural Context."Over the last 28 years, the Qualitatives has become an annual touchstone for quali…
Reflecting on the History of Sociology in Nigeria
What's Good for the Goose Is Good for the Gander? Ecological Ethnography Entangled in Intersectionality
Reframing 'Dirty Work
Drawing on ethnographic research in a homeless shelter, this article examines how caseworkers navigate an occupation that is often physically and morally trying, and at times, objectionable. Given this context, we examine the ways in which caseworkers identify and define 'dirty work,' often seen as a source of occupational degradation, according to two main typifications: the physical and the moral. Building on Erving Goffman's frame analysis, we…
Symbolic Interactionism
The symbolic interactionist perspective is presented with a brief history and a discussion of the key theoretical and methodological assumptions to guide social research. After considering its origins and development into the contemporary period, we consider some of the criticisms leveled against it. We then turn to the issue of language and its importance for an interactionist model of the social nature of mind, self, and society. Here, critique…
Play Stage
The play stage is one of the three central components of George Herbert Mead's seminal discussion of the social foundation and development of the self. According to Mead, the self has a social genesis which becomes evident if one examines the ways that people develop a sense for their own being as something separate from, but also interdependent with, other people. In essence, the self is situated in the individual's capacity to take account of h…
Overcoming “Analytic Interruptus”
A common charge against qualitative researchers in general and interactionist researchers in particular is that they produce descriptive, a-theoretical accounts of group life. We consider the problem of “analytic interruptus” in contemporary symbolic interactionism – that is, a failure to move beyond analyses of individual cases – and offer a potential to a solution via the pursuit of a generic social process (GSP) research agenda. A GSP approach…
Generic Social Processes
Antony Puddephatt*a & Arthur McLuhanba Lakehead Universityb York UniversityAntony Puddephatt is professor of sociology at Lakehead University, Canada. He has studied the social theory of George Herbert Mead, exploring the relevance of his social pragmatism for a wide range of contemporary theoretical issues. He has also conducted empirical studies of the social world of chess, the institutional culture of Canadian sociology, and more recently the…
Images of Marie Curie
Marie Curie holds iconic status both within the scientific community and in the wider cultural imagination and collective memory. The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and the only woman to achieve such an honor twice, Curie is widely celebrated as a female pioneer in the sciences and is held up as a model for all, but particularly women, to emulate. She is revered not only as a ground-breaking scientist, but also as a devoted wife and moth…
Gender, Artifacts, and Ritual Encounters
Tomboy Tools is a company that markets tools and home-repair techniques to women, using a home party sales model. This provides an interesting case to consider how traditional gendered domains can be transcended, and how they are reshaped to allow this to happen. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with consumers, salespeople, and executives of Tomboy Tools, this paper draws on Collins' (2004) theory of interaction ritual chains to …
George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead is the most important theoretical precursor to the symbolic interactionist tradition. In this chapter, I provide a brief intellectual biography of Mead, setting the context for his major ideas. I then consider his social conception of mind and self, the nature of reflective intelligence, the dialectic of the I and Me, his developmental phases of play and game, and how these relate to significant and generalized others. From he…
Symbolic Interaction, Public Sociology, and the Potential of Open-Access Publishing
Symbolic interactionists can gain much by engaging more with public audiences. One way to do this is through open-access publishing, such that the content of interactionist research is freely available to the global public. We reflect on the issue of public sociology within symbolic interactionism, considering the recent impact of digital technology and social media. Within this context, we consider the rise of the open-access movement in scholar…
Cote, Jean-Francois, George Herbert Mead’s Concept of Society
Canadian Symbolic Interactionism on the Global Stage
In a recent CJS special issue developed around their paper titled 'The Institutionalization of Symbolic Interactionism in Canadian Sociology, 1922-1979: Success at What Cost?' Helmes-Hayes and Milne (2017) document the emergence and establishment of symbolic interactionism (SI) in English-language Canadian sociology, and then consider its fragmentation and decline from 1979 into the present period. This is followed by commentaries from Jacqueline…
George Herbert Mead as a Socio-Environmental Thinker
Microsociological Perspectives for Environmental Sociology
Critical Nexus or Pluralist Discipline? Institutional Ambivalence and the Future of Canadian Sociology
While some scholars believe in a transdisciplinary future for the social sciences and humanities, we argue that sociology would do well to maintain its disciplinary borders, while celebrating the plurality of its intellectual, social, and political content. Although a pluralist position can threaten disciplinary coherence and increase fragmentation, we argue the counterbalance ought to be convergence around shared institutional norms of knowledge…
Toward a radical interactionist account of science
George Herbert Mead developed a sophisticated social and pragmatist model of science, which has escaped the attention of most modern-day scholars and symbolic interactionists. While Mead’s insights have much to offer to contemporary interactionist studies of science and technology, they are not without their shortcomings. In his analyses, Mead tends to put most of his emphasis on the concrete micro-foundations of knowledge production and the func…
Empowering Single Mothers in Iran
Since 2000, a problem-solving model has been taught to the Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child, and teachers and students of social work in two universities in Iran. Since 2006, with the initiation of UNICEF, social workers, psychologists and even some psychiatrists in Iran have been learning this model. In 2008, a group of researchers created an empowerment-oriented psycho-social group and private intervention project to assess whethe…
The Promise of a Sociology Degree in Canadian Higher Education
Des descriptions de programmes universitaires de cinquante‐quatre départements de sociologie anglophones ont été examinées afin de découvrir les thèmes publicitaires dirigés aux étudiants éventuels. En comparant les départements des universités comprenant des programmes de doctorat aux universités offrant principalement des programmes de baccalauréat, on a trouvé des variations dans leurs messages et leurs promesses aux étudiants. On a remarqué d…
Filipe Carreira da Silva, Mead and Modernity
s ideas biographically, politically and historically
Causality, Agency, and Reality
Causal theorizing in sociology is often presumed best handled in the domain of multivariate, quantitative variable research. In contrast, we argue that such theorizing may be more authentically accomplished within the theoretical and methodological impetus of symbolic interactionism. Analyzing notions of causality in the work of Plato and Aristotle, we consider their relevance for contemporary accounts of human group life with reference to the wo…
Critical Nexus or Pluralist Discipline? Institutional Ambivalence and the Future of Canadian Sociology
While some scholars believe in a transdisciplinary future for the social sciences and humanities, we argue that sociology would do well to maintain its disciplinary borders, while celebrating the plurality of its intellectual, social, and political content. Although a pluralist position can threaten disciplinary coherence and increase fragmentation, we argue the counterbalance ought to be convergence around shared institutional norms of knowledge…
The Search for Meaning
Generic Social Processes
Antony Puddephatt*a & Arthur McLuhanba Lakehead Universityb York UniversityAntony Puddephatt is professor of sociology at Lakehead University, Canada. He has studied the social theory of George Herbert Mead, exploring the relevance of his social pragmatism for a wide range of contemporary theoretical issues. He has also conducted empirical studies of the social world of chess, the institutional culture of Canadian sociology, and more recently the…
Chess Playing as Strategic Activity
This article takes an interactionist perspective and explores how people engage in strategic activity in the context of a chess game. Based on participant observation in the chess community and interviews with twenty amateur chess players, it examines the most relevant issues to players as they form their lines of action during play. It considers the following dimensions: incorporation of routine activity and style, role taking, impression manage…
Symbolic Interactionism
The symbolic interactionist perspective is presented with a brief history and a discussion of the key theoretical and methodological assumptions to guide social research. After considering its origins and development into the contemporary period, we consider some of the criticisms leveled against it. We then turn to the issue of language and its importance for an interactionist model of the social nature of mind, self, and society. Here, critique…
Reframing 'Dirty Work
Drawing on ethnographic research in a homeless shelter, this article examines how caseworkers navigate an occupation that is often physically and morally trying, and at times, objectionable. Given this context, we examine the ways in which caseworkers identify and define 'dirty work,' often seen as a source of occupational degradation, according to two main typifications: the physical and the moral. Building on Erving Goffman's frame analysis, we…
Incorporating Ritual into Greedy Institution Theory
Based on ethnographic data, this article explains devotion to chess in terms of the structural mechanisms of its social organization. I use Lewis Coser's theory of greedy institutions as a way to analyze how these mechanisms influence player decisions and foster devotion to the game. Inspired largely by Randall Collins, I expand Coser's original framework by analyzing how the ritual of competitive play is structured in ways to heighten the intrin…
An Interview with Kathy Charmaz
Unveiling the cloak of competence
Reflecting on the History of Sociology in Nigeria
Living Green while Locking Down? Bruno Latour on Covid-19 Lockdowns in the Midst of the Climate Crisis
Canadian Symbolic Interactionism on the Global Stage
In a recent CJS special issue developed around their paper titled 'The Institutionalization of Symbolic Interactionism in Canadian Sociology, 1922-1979: Success at What Cost?' Helmes-Hayes and Milne (2017) document the emergence and establishment of symbolic interactionism (SI) in English-language Canadian sociology, and then consider its fragmentation and decline from 1979 into the present period. This is followed by commentaries from Jacqueline…
The Constructionist as Claims-Maker? A Pragmatist Intervention into Social Problems Theory
Empowering Single Mothers in Iran
Since 2000, a problem-solving model has been taught to the Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child, and teachers and students of social work in two universities in Iran. Since 2006, with the initiation of UNICEF, social workers, psychologists and even some psychiatrists in Iran have been learning this model. In 2008, a group of researchers created an empowerment-oriented psycho-social group and private intervention project to assess whethe…
The Promise of a Sociology Degree in Canadian Higher Education
Des descriptions de programmes universitaires de cinquante‐quatre départements de sociologie anglophones ont été examinées afin de découvrir les thèmes publicitaires dirigés aux étudiants éventuels. En comparant les départements des universités comprenant des programmes de doctorat aux universités offrant principalement des programmes de baccalauréat, on a trouvé des variations dans leurs messages et leurs promesses aux étudiants. On a remarqué d…
An Academic Skating on Thin Ice
Adult–Adolescent Interaction and Adolescents’ Brain Development
The aim of this paper is to outline a platform for research on adolescents’ life regulation. Adolescents’ brain development is described with the help of neuroscience and integrated with pragmatist and symbolic interactionist insights about how adolescents can learn to control their impulses and act thoughtfully. The foundation for the analysis is found in American pragmatism, where a biopsychosocial perspective is built on the understanding that…
Chess Playing as Strategic Activity
This article takes an interactionist perspective and explores how people engage in strategic activity in the context of a chess game. Based on participant observation in the chess community and interviews with twenty amateur chess players, it examines the most relevant issues to players as they form their lines of action during play. It considers the following dimensions: incorporation of routine activity and style, role taking, impression manage…
An Interview with Kathy Charmaz
Unveiling the cloak of competence
Causality, Agency, and Reality
Causal theorizing in sociology is often presumed best handled in the domain of multivariate, quantitative variable research. In contrast, we argue that such theorizing may be more authentically accomplished within the theoretical and methodological impetus of symbolic interactionism. Analyzing notions of causality in the work of Plato and Aristotle, we consider their relevance for contemporary accounts of human group life with reference to the wo…
George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead is an exemplary figure in sociology, and is central to sociological conceptions of the self and social action. However, other important aspects of Mead's thought have been largely neglected, including his remarkably sophisticated and sociological theory of scientific knowledge. Traditional accounts of the sociology of science identify Thomas Kuhn, and his predecessor, Ludwig Fleck, as pioneers in the social analysis of scienti…
Adult–Adolescent Interaction and Adolescents’ Brain Development
The aim of this paper is to outline a platform for research on adolescents’ life regulation. Adolescents’ brain development is described with the help of neuroscience and integrated with pragmatist and symbolic interactionist insights about how adolescents can learn to control their impulses and act thoughtfully. The foundation for the analysis is found in American pragmatism, where a biopsychosocial perspective is built on the understanding that…
Incorporating Ritual into Greedy Institution Theory
Based on ethnographic data, this article explains devotion to chess in terms of the structural mechanisms of its social organization. I use Lewis Coser's theory of greedy institutions as a way to analyze how these mechanisms influence player decisions and foster devotion to the game. Inspired largely by Randall Collins, I expand Coser's original framework by analyzing how the ritual of competitive play is structured in ways to heighten the intrin…
Ethnographies Revisited
Ethnographies Revisited provides first-hand accounts of how leading qualitative researchers crafted key theoretical concepts found in their major book-length ethnographies. Great ethnographic research lies not in the rigid execution of prescribed methodological procedures, but on the unrelenting cultivation of theoretical ideas. These contributors focus squarely on this neglected topic, providing reflexive accounts of how research decisions were …
The Search for Meaning
An Academic Skating on Thin Ice
The Promise of a Sociology Degree in Canadian Higher Education
Des descriptions de programmes universitaires de cinquante‐quatre départements de sociologie anglophones ont été examinées afin de découvrir les thèmes publicitaires dirigés aux étudiants éventuels. En comparant les départements des universités comprenant des programmes de doctorat aux universités offrant principalement des programmes de baccalauréat, on a trouvé des variations dans leurs messages et leurs promesses aux étudiants. On a remarqué d…
Filipe Carreira da Silva, Mead and Modernity
s ideas biographically, politically and historically
Toward a radical interactionist account of science
George Herbert Mead developed a sophisticated social and pragmatist model of science, which has escaped the attention of most modern-day scholars and symbolic interactionists. While Mead’s insights have much to offer to contemporary interactionist studies of science and technology, they are not without their shortcomings. In his analyses, Mead tends to put most of his emphasis on the concrete micro-foundations of knowledge production and the func…
Empowering Single Mothers in Iran
Since 2000, a problem-solving model has been taught to the Society for Protecting the Rights of the Child, and teachers and students of social work in two universities in Iran. Since 2006, with the initiation of UNICEF, social workers, psychologists and even some psychiatrists in Iran have been learning this model. In 2008, a group of researchers created an empowerment-oriented psycho-social group and private intervention project to assess whethe…
Critical Nexus or Pluralist Discipline? Institutional Ambivalence and the Future of Canadian Sociology
While some scholars believe in a transdisciplinary future for the social sciences and humanities, we argue that sociology would do well to maintain its disciplinary borders, while celebrating the plurality of its intellectual, social, and political content. Although a pluralist position can threaten disciplinary coherence and increase fragmentation, we argue the counterbalance ought to be convergence around shared institutional norms of knowledge…
George Herbert Mead as a Socio-Environmental Thinker
Microsociological Perspectives for Environmental Sociology
George Herbert Mead
George Herbert Mead is the most important theoretical precursor to the symbolic interactionist tradition. In this chapter, I provide a brief intellectual biography of Mead, setting the context for his major ideas. I then consider his social conception of mind and self, the nature of reflective intelligence, the dialectic of the I and Me, his developmental phases of play and game, and how these relate to significant and generalized others. From he…
Symbolic Interaction, Public Sociology, and the Potential of Open-Access Publishing
Symbolic interactionists can gain much by engaging more with public audiences. One way to do this is through open-access publishing, such that the content of interactionist research is freely available to the global public. We reflect on the issue of public sociology within symbolic interactionism, considering the recent impact of digital technology and social media. Within this context, we consider the rise of the open-access movement in scholar…
Cote, Jean-Francois, George Herbert Mead’s Concept of Society
Canadian Symbolic Interactionism on the Global Stage
In a recent CJS special issue developed around their paper titled 'The Institutionalization of Symbolic Interactionism in Canadian Sociology, 1922-1979: Success at What Cost?' Helmes-Hayes and Milne (2017) document the emergence and establishment of symbolic interactionism (SI) in English-language Canadian sociology, and then consider its fragmentation and decline from 1979 into the present period. This is followed by commentaries from Jacqueline…
Images of Marie Curie
Marie Curie holds iconic status both within the scientific community and in the wider cultural imagination and collective memory. The first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize and the only woman to achieve such an honor twice, Curie is widely celebrated as a female pioneer in the sciences and is held up as a model for all, but particularly women, to emulate. She is revered not only as a ground-breaking scientist, but also as a devoted wife and moth…
Gender, Artifacts, and Ritual Encounters
Tomboy Tools is a company that markets tools and home-repair techniques to women, using a home party sales model. This provides an interesting case to consider how traditional gendered domains can be transcended, and how they are reshaped to allow this to happen. Drawing on participant observation and interviews with consumers, salespeople, and executives of Tomboy Tools, this paper draws on Collins' (2004) theory of interaction ritual chains to …
Play Stage
The play stage is one of the three central components of George Herbert Mead's seminal discussion of the social foundation and development of the self. According to Mead, the self has a social genesis which becomes evident if one examines the ways that people develop a sense for their own being as something separate from, but also interdependent with, other people. In essence, the self is situated in the individual's capacity to take account of h…
Overcoming “Analytic Interruptus”
A common charge against qualitative researchers in general and interactionist researchers in particular is that they produce descriptive, a-theoretical accounts of group life. We consider the problem of “analytic interruptus” in contemporary symbolic interactionism – that is, a failure to move beyond analyses of individual cases – and offer a potential to a solution via the pursuit of a generic social process (GSP) research agenda. A GSP approach…
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