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New Book Review: Jiannan Song & Zikang Song discuss "Multimodality and Social Interaction in Online and OfflineShopping" edited by Gitte Rasmussen & Theo van Leeuwen https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.716 #sssi #sociology #emca #markets #shopping @WileySociology

We have just published Jiannan Song & Zikang Song’s review of “Multimodality and Social Interaction in Online and OfflineShopping” edited by Gitte Rasmussen & Theo van Leeuwen. Members of SSSI can access the article HERE and by clicking the image below. To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from $35 (£30) please click HERE.

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Master L’ieffe Sijourn

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Blog #1: Sijourner Truth’s ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’

Sijourner Truth presented her speech ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ at the Women’s Rights Convention in Akron, Ohio in 1881. This was during a time where females, especially those of colour, were subject to much discrimination and prejudice against the power of men. Truth speaks specifically about the inequalities faced by other female African American slaves, but also about the general suffering faced by females during this time period.

One thing Truth does really well is building a connection to her audience in order to strengthen her message. In terms of diction and rhetoric, she specifically uses informal speech and slang in many instances. One such example is the constantly repeated phrase, ’And ain’t I a woman?’. She recognizes that her audience of predominately African American female slaves will feel more connected to her message when she speaks in a manner they are used to, rather than utilizing more formal diction.

Furthermore, I noticed her technique of utilizing very obvious statements and general logic in order to get a point across. The blatant obviousness of the statement ‘Ain’t I a woman?’ makes one question the absurdity of the entire issue at hand. Similarly, a phrase that stuck out for me was when she asks, ‘If my cup won’t hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn’t you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?’. Truth makes the point that if men already have more rights than women, is it not fair to simply ask not even to level the playing field, but to gain some independence?

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Book Review: David Nock discusses "Immediacy: Our Ways of Coping in Everyday Life" by Fred Emil Katz #sssi #sociology https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.682 @WileySociology

We have just published David Nock’s review of “Immediacy: Our Ways of Coping in Everyday Life” By Fred Emil Katz. Nock suggests that Katz “presents a number of new concepts to help us in this investigation. The book illustrates these concepts in an array of fascinating case studies. In addition to their formal pedagogical intent, a fortuitous rider is that they never fail to peak our…

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New Review Essay: Joel Best “Thinking about Unsettling Times” https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.679 #sssi #crisis #history #pandemic #panic #fear @WileySociology

We have published a Review Essay by Joel Best that members of SSSI can download by clicking HERE or the image below.  To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic Interaction from $38 (£30) please click HERE

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New Review Essay: Joel Best “Thinking about Unsettling Times” #sssi #crisis #history #pandemic #panic #fear

New Review Essay: Joel Best “Thinking about Unsettling Times” #sssi #crisis #history #pandemic #panic #fear

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New Issue: Symbolic Interaction Vol.46 No. 4 #sssi #emca @WileySociology

We have just published the latest issue of Symbolic Interaction. ORIGINAL ARTICLES Can’t Buy Me Love: Gift-Giving Among Members of Criminal Organizations Shirly Bar-Lev,  Michal Morag Pages: 393-416 Gender Category and Gender Status: A Critical Distinction Jesse Kolber Pages: 417-439   The Power of a 😉: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters Anne…

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New book review: K. Neil Jenkings discusses "The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects", edited by Douglas W. Maynard & John Heritage https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.676 #sssi #emca #sociology #ethnomethodology #Garfinkel @WileySociology

We have just published K. Neil Jenkings’ review of “The Ethnomethodology Program: Legacies and Prospects” edited by Douglas W. Maynard & John Heritage. In his review, Jenkings provides a critical discussion more of the composition of the book than of the individual contributions. Members of SSSI can access the article HERE and by clicking the image below. To join SSSI and subscribe to Symbolic…

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New Book Review: Brian Monahan discusses Jared Del Rosso's book "Denial: How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems" #sssi #sociology

We have just published Brian Monahan‘s review of Jared Del Rosso‘s book “Denial: How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems“. Monahan writes that “[T]he central argument of this book is that we regularly encounter personal embarrassments, inconvenient facts, and claims about social problems and, when this happens, we make choices regarding if and how to deal with them. According to the…

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New Book Review: Alexandra H. Vinson (@ahvinson) discusses Douglas W. Maynard and Jason Turowetz's book "Autistic Intelligence" #sssi #emca #sociology https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.654 @WileySociology

For some years now, Douglas W. Maynard and Jason Turowetz have been working on the testing for and diagnosing of autism. Their research builds on Maynard’s previews ethnomethodological and conversation analytic research on standard tests, for example, the testing of intelligence. Maynard and Turowetz now have published their research as a monograph that Alexandra H. Vinson (@ahvinson) has…

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New Issue Out! Symbolic Interaction (@sijournal) Vol. 46 No.2 @WileySociology #sssi #emca #sociology

Symbolic Interaction Volume 46, number 2 Table of Content ARTICLES Perverts or Heroes in the Post-Socialist “Cold War”: Formula Stories of Lesbian/Bisexual/Queer Women and Transgender People in Ukrainian Media Yuliia Soroka,  S. L. Crawley,  Olga Dzyuba,  Ashley Green Corporeal Interactions in VRChat: Situational Intensity and Body Synchronization Felix Krell,  Nico Wettmann Former…

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New Article: "Gender Category and Gender Status: A Critical Distinction" by Jesse Kolber #sssi #sociology #gender https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.665 @WileySociology

Symbolic Interaction (@sijournal) has just published a new article entitled “Gender Category and Gender Status: A Critical Distinction” by Jesse Kolber. Professor Kolber suggests that “[D]espite its centrality to the field, “gender” eludes conceptual specificity in significant ways, such as lacking distinction between gender category (identification as a man, woman, nonbinary, etc.) and gender…

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Looking for or Book Reviewers @sijournal #sssi #sociology #interactionism

I am looking for reviewers of a few books. As indicated, some of these books may only be available as ebooks. Please get in touch with me if you want to review one of these books. dirk.vom_lehn@kcl.ac.uk Hopefully print copy

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Special Issue 'The Senses in Social Interaction' edited by Will Gibson (@Willjimgibson) and Dirk vom Lehn (@dirkvl) published in Symbolic Interaction (@sociologylens) #sssi #emca #senses #interaction

Special Issue ‘The Senses in Social Interaction’ edited by Will Gibson (@Willjimgibson) and Dirk vom Lehn (@dirkvl) published in Symbolic Interaction (@sociologylens) #sssi #emca #senses #interaction

Symbolic Interaction (@sijournal) has just published our Special Issue on ‘The Senses in Social Interaction’ (Vol.44(1)). The Table of Contents is below. Will Gibson and Dirk vom Lehn – Introduction: The Senses in Social Interaction [Open Access] https://doi.org/10.1002/symb.539 Danielle Pillet-Shore – “When to Make the Sensory Social: Registering in Face‐to‐Face Openings”…

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Articles for Special Issue on 'The Senses in Social Interaction' published on Early View of Symbolic Interaction (@sijournal) #sssi #emca #senses #sociology cc @TweetsEmca @sociologylens

Articles for Special Issue on ‘The Senses in Social Interaction’ published on Early View of Symbolic Interaction (@sijournal) #sssi #emca #senses #sociology cc @TweetsEmca @sociologylens

About a year ago, Symbolic Interaction published a Call for Papers for a Special Issue on ‘The Senses in Social Interaction’ that I co-edit with Will Gibson (UCL). Once published, probably in 2021, the Special Issue will explore the senses as interactional phenomena. Symbolic Interaction has recently begun to publish some of the papers on Early View:

Lorenza Mondada – “Orchestrating…