Symbolic interaction explains the world of social behavior and the development of the “self” as a function of social learning. As such, it plays an instrume

This is a collection of articles dealing with the point of view of symbolic interactionism and with the topic of methodology in the discipline of sociology. It

Charting Women's Journeys is about the meaning of addiction and recovery in the lives of twenty-five Appalachian women who have been practicing abstinence from

Symbolic interactionism is a social-scientific perspective that seeks to describe how human beings create meaning with one another in their daily lives. Since t

First published in 1999. Driven by the interest of the author this study looks at the lives of immigrant women in central New York who are working in the garmen