People, Technology, and Social Organization: Interactionist Studies of Everyday Life (Interactionist Currents)

By: Will Gibson and Dirk Vom Lehn and Natalia Ruiz-Junco

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Synopsis: This insightful and accessible book is a response to the increasing important role that technology plays in everyday life, and the urgent need for empirical studies that analyse the impact of technology on social practices. The chapters in this co-edited collection reveal how technology is oriented to and embedded within the social organization of action in a wide range of settings and institutions, including education, markets, arts and culture, health and social care, media, politics, and science. In their analyses, the contributing authors adopt interactionist perspectives to explore how the meanings of technology emerge and are negotiated within and through action and interaction. The volume comprises 14 empirical chapters from authors working in fields such as symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology, conversation analysis, discourse methods, ethnographic enquiry, video-based methods, and others. The chapters are framed by an introduction and a concluding discussion by the co-editors which draws out the key themes and issues that the individual chapters speak to, and show the importance of these themes for the social sciences and for society. The book is primarily aimed at researchers in the social sciences, including sociology, social psychology, organization studies, and beyond whose work is concerned with the interplay between social interaction, technology, and institutions.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781000967111
Related ISBNs:: 9781003277750, 9781032234670, 9781032230689
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 10/19/23
Copyrighted By:: selection and editorial matter, Dirk vom Lehn, Will Gibson and Natalia Ruiz-Junco
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Social Studies, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Dirk vom Lehn
Edited by:: Will Gibson
Edited by:: Natalia Ruiz-Junco