This reader shows the rich history and wide contemporary application of symbolic interaction theory.

This book examines management and management-related activities as a feature of everyday life. Any person or group that attempts to influence or shape the behaviors or experiences of others may be understood as engaging in management activities. The study of management involves the study of achieving understanding, providing direction and coordinating activities with others across an endless array of humanly engaged terrains. Management Motifs provides a research agenda for an int...

Ethnografie hat weiterhin den Geruch von Abenteuer. Der vorliegende Band bietet eine Heranführung an die ethnografische Haltung und Praxis, mit der das immersive Abenteuer der Feldarbeit und das akademische Abenteuer der Schreibarbeit zusammen bestritten werden können.Als von Interaktionisten verfasste Einführung bietet er Einsteigern eine klassische, zurück zu den Chicagoer Wurzeln führende Praxis an, in der Intersubjektivität, Offenheit, Unwägbarkeit, Aufs-Feld-Einlassen und kreat...

Desde el Antiguo Epigto del siglo XI a.C. surge la figura de Ramsés XIII como protagonista absoluto de una historia extraordinaria. La formación del joven príncipe incluirá muy pronto en la conciencia exacta de su posición en la escala del poder y los primeros enfrentamientos con una casta sacerdotal dispuesta a conservar su fuerza milenaria. Ramsés habrá de esperar a que llegue su hora para vengar antiguos agravios, reforzar la autoridad del faraón y llevar adelante su particular visión d...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

Throughout the long centuries of human history is the want, and the need, to share information, to exchange ideas and for that knowledge and experience, for curiosity and learning, to be the basis of a civil society.In literature the ambition is much narrower. In order to be known, to be popular, you had to be published. And for that people had to know you existed and your ideas worth reading. Obviously for most of humanity’s time people couldn’t read and texts couldn’t be publishe...

The Top 10 – The European 19th Century – an IntroductionA century of change. Some catastrophic, some fantastical. Europe reaches out its national tentacles in a global grab for Empire. At home, revolutions erupt and decay. Literature gains a widespread audience through advancing technology. Here, in this volume, authors absorb and then reveal their wondrous stories.Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pa...

Short stories have always been a sort of instant access into an author’s brain, their soul and heart. A few pages can lift our lives into locations, people and experiences with a sweep of landscape, narration, feelings and emotions that is difficult to achieve elsewhere.In this series we try to offer up tried and trusted ‘Top Tens’ across many different themes and authors. But any anthology will immediately throw up the questions – Why that story? Why that author?The theme ...