The Sociological Import of G. H. Mead's Theory of the Past

Maines, David R.; Sugrue, Noreen M.; Katovich, Michael A.

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“…Some incidents have a "referential afterlife" (Goffman, 1976) and become "memory markers" (Fine, 1986) for participants as they interpret and impute meaning to events that transpired during the primary activity. The memory work we are describing here is one that occurs more or less naturally as people strive to make sense of the past (Coleman, 1999;Maines, Sugrue, & Katovich, 1983).…”

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Extended Leisure Experiences: A Sociological Conceptualization

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2016

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Extended Leisure Experiences: A Sociological Conceptualization

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2016

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“…They force the processes of reflexivity and attention into the analysis of time, and through them we may be able to glimpse the individual's extended sense of duration and the speciousness of time. The awareness of self in that duration always occurs in a present, as Mead so clearly described, in which pasts and futures fold back into one another, existing in part as pure fiction and in part as unalterable fact, and where successive presents are not merely sequenced by sequentially situated (Maines, et at, 1983).…”

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“…Generally, Bergson saw the reality of time as an inner experience; Husserllocated time in consciousness and memory; Merleau-Ponty located time in the relations between fused "internal/external" events; Mead located all reality in the specious present, and more precisely in the emergent event (Denzin, 1982;1983;Maines et al, 1983). While there are significant variations between these scholars' views and those ofDurkheim, Mannheim, Halbwachs, and the like, as well as the more contemporary versions of Moore, Anderson, and Zerubavel, I wish to focus on the cornmonality of time!…”

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Time and Biography in Diabetic Experience

Maines¹

1983

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This paper offers a preliminary analysis of temporality inThis paper is an exploratory inquiry into how time is experienced by people who have diabetes. The substantive phase of my inquiry seeks to depict the arenas and sets of relations in which time is transformed by virtue of diabetes; the analytical phase, which is suggestive of several conceptual distinctions, seeks to account for the nature of temporality as a diabetic phenomenon. My central argument is that temporal processes are at the very heart of the diabetic experience, that those processes unite the physiological, emotional, social, interpersonal, technological, organizational, institutional, and personal *Support for this work was provided through the Psychosocial Epidemiology Training Program and BRSG Grant 2-5-21736 of the School of Public Health, University of Illinois, Chicago. I also express my appreciation for the support of the Program on Health Resources Management of that University. Joni Beemsterboer was kind enough to help me think through a couple of troublesome points of analysis in an earlier version of this paper.

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“…As G. H. Mead had said (Maines, Sugrue, & Katovich, 1983), the past is never left as the past. Indeed, the past is as uncertain as the future.…”

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Nostalgic Narratives

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1999

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This study is an exploration into the sociology of nostalgia. Interviews with African-Americans who grew up in the 1950s demonstrate the juxtaposition of painful recollections of segregation with pleasant nostalgia for family, community, and church during that decade. The data are interpreted by drawing upon the work of Fred Davis. It is suggested that nostalgia facilitates the continuity of identity. Other functions of nostalgia are suggested as well. It is significant to note that the nostalgia expressed by informants is for the collective—e.g., the strength of family relations, church membership, and neighborhood ties. This study addresses the nature and experience of nostalgia and discusses the role of nostalgia in the process of constructing and maintaining identity.

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The Sociological Import of G. H. Mead's Theory of the Past

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Extended Leisure Experiences: A Sociological Conceptualization

Extended Leisure Experiences: A Sociological Conceptualization

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