Structure, Institutions, Power, and Ideology: New Directions Within Symbolic Interactionism

Musolf, Gil Richard

doi:10.1111/j.1533-8525.1992.tb00370.x

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“…This suggests we revisit the suggestion that symbolic interactionist analyses ignore power (Musolf, 1992). When we examine power's multiple modalities, the contribution of symbolic interactionism becomes clearer.…”

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Sexuality, power and the sociology of the internet

Brickell

2012

Current Sociology

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The internet is an increasingly important enabler and mediator of sexual relations in society. It has begun to transform older modes of knowing, experiencing and organizing sexuality. In light of an emerging social science literature, this article considers internetmediated sexuality and its consequences for theorizing power. It looks at three ideal typical strands of power in relation to sexuality: the constitutive, the regulatory and the unequal. It considers empirically based discussions alongside broader theoretical concerns: Foucauldian work on discourse and subjectivity, an Althusserian account of interpellation, the symbolic interactionist focus on the presentation of self and feminist analyses of inequality. On the internet, the article suggests, the overlaps between different forms of sexual power are often complex and multi-directional.

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Sexuality, power and the sociology of the internet

Brickell

2012

Current Sociology

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“…Although the interactionist tradition has attended somewhat to the constituting role of structure(Maines 1977), some argue that this has been at most a subsidiary focus or that the perspective has given inadequate attention to the centrality of domination in group life(Athens 2009;Musolf 1992).…”

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Racial Habitus, Moral Conflict, and White Moral Hegemony Within Interracial Evangelical Organizations

Perry

2012

Qual Sociol

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Re-conceptualizing habitus as a complex of inculcated moral dispositions thatparticularly within the racialized social system of the United States-are racially-constituted, this article proposes a framework through which racial conflict and structural/cultural domination within interracial religious organizations, and perhaps other volunteer organizations, may be analyzed. Drawing upon qualitative data from a study of fundraising experiences within interracial evangelical organizations, I demonstrate, first, that racial conflicts within these organizations are best framed as disputes over moral standards arising out of divergent, racially-constituted, moral dispositions, and second, that these conflicts are worked out via the institutionalization and instilment of white cultural norms, ultimately resulting in the hegemony of white moral standards within the organizations.

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“…SI as a research programme is multifaceted and still evolving (Fine, 1993;Hallett et al, 2010;Musolf, 1992;Stryker, 2008). In its early phase, Mead (1934), Blumer (1969 and Hughes (1951) focused on the constitutive role of individuals and rebelled against an 'un-peopled' view of institutions and society (Hallett et al, 2010: 488).…”

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Symbolic meanings and e-learning in the workplace: The case of an intranet-based training tool

Michalski

2013

Management Learning

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This article contributes to the debate on work-based e-learning, by unpacking the notion of 'the learning context' in a case where the mediating tool for training also supports everyday work. Users' engagement with the information and communication technology tool is shown to reflect dynamic interactions among the individual, peer group, organizational and institutional levels. Also influential are professionals' values and identity work, alongside their interpretations of espoused and emerging symbolic meanings. Discussion draws on pedagogically informed studies of e-learning and the wider organizational learning literature. More centrally, this article highlights the instrumentality of symbolic interactionism for e-learning research and explores some of the framework's conceptual resources as applied to organizational analysis and e-learning design.2

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Structure, Institutions, Power, and Ideology: New Directions Within Symbolic Interactionism

Cited by 67 publications

References 46 publications

Sexuality, power and the sociology of the internet

Sexuality, power and the sociology of the internet

Racial Habitus, Moral Conflict, and White Moral Hegemony Within Interracial Evangelical Organizations

Symbolic meanings and e-learning in the workplace: The case of an intranet-based training tool

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