The IVth Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction 28-30 AUGUST 2013, UPPSALA, SWEDEN www.his.se/eu-sssi PROGRAM The Conference is organized by the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, and the Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, with the cooperation of the Department of Cultural Geography, the Institute for Housing and Urban Research, and the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology at Uppsala University. Sponsors: Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ); The Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsrådet), Uppsala University WEDNESDAY, 28 AUGUST Norrlands Nation Conference, Västra Ågatan 14 8:30-9:30 Registration (refreshments available) 9:30-10:30 Conference Opening Vessela Misheva, Chairperson of the International Organizing Committee of the EU-SSSI Conference Gale Miller, President of SSSI Kerstin Rathsman, Acting Head of Department, Department of Sociology , Uppsala University Ella Johansson, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University Irene Molina, Institute for Housing and Urban Research & Department of Cultural Geography, Uppsala University Jasna Sersic, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University Anna Liv Jonsson, Master’s student, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University PLENARY SESSION I 10:30-11:45 (Venue: Norrlands Nation Conference) 10:30-11:00 Jan Trost, Uppsala University, Sweden Symbolic Interactionism in Sweden 11:00-11:30 Jack Katz, University of California at Los Angeles, USA How Symbolic Interaction Got Marginalized and Why it Keeps Coming Back 11:30-11:45 Discussion 11:45-13:15 Lunch Break PLENARY SESSION II 13:15-14:30 (Venue: Norrlands Nation Conference) 13:15-13:45 Lonnie Athens, Seton Hall University, USA The Nature and Genesis of Radical Interactionism 13:45-14:15 Vessela Misheva, Uppsala University and University of Skövde, Sweden The Interdisciplinary Promise of Symbolic Interactionism 14:15-14:30 Discussion 14:30-15:00 Coffee and Refreshments pLENARY SESSION III 15:00-17:00 (Venue: Norrlands Nation Conference) 15:00-15:30 Gary Fine, Northwestern University, USA The Hinge: Civil Society, Group Culture, and the Interaction Order 15:30-16:00 Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University, UK Symbolic Interactionism as an Economic Sociology 16:00-16:30 Mikael Carleheden, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Towards a Conception of Critical Social Psychology: Self-realization, Social Pathologies and Critique 16:30-17:00 Discussion 17:00-17.30 Break (refreshments available)C cONCURRENT SESSIONS no 1-3 17:30-19:00 (Venue: Norrlands Nation Conference) 19:30 Rector’s Reception, University Main BuildingTH THURSDAY, 29 AUGUST PLENARY SESSION IV 09:00-09:45 (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken) 9:00-9:30 Gale Miller, Marquette University, USA Social Constructionism as Public Sociology: Lessons from Kenneth Burke 9:30-9:45 Discussion 9:45-10:15 Coffee and RefreshmentsCONCURRENT SESSIONS No 4-7 10:15 – 11:45 (V CONCURRENT SESSIONS No 4-7 10:15-11:45 (Venue: Campus Engelska Parken) Campus Engelska Parken ) 11:45-13:15 Lunch Break PLENARY SESSION V 13:15-15:00 (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken) 13:15-13:45 Patricia A. Adler, University of Colorado at Boulder, USA The Cyber Worlds of Self-Injurers: Deviant Communities, Relationship, and Selves 13:45-14:15 Joseph Kotarba, Texas State University, USA Exploring Contemporary Experiences of Self: From Translational Research Scientists to Baby Boomer Rock ‘n’ Roll Fans. 14:15-14.45 Emma Engdahl, Aalborg University, Denmark The Paradox of Self-realization within Western Society: The Case of Depressive Love 14:45-15:15 Discussion 15:15-15:30 Coffee and RefreshmentsCO coNCURRENT SESSIONS No 8-12 15:30-17:00 (Venue: Campus Engelska Parken PLENARY PANEL 17:15-18:30 (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken) The Thwarted Self of the 21st C: Reflections on Recognition, Subjectivity and Identity Lauren Langman, Loyola University, Chicago, USA The Social Self as Subject: Identity as “Contested Terrain” Michael Thompson, William Paterson University, USA The Insufficiency of Recognition Tova Benski, The College of Management Academic Studies, Israel Recognition and Dignity: The Emotions of the 21st Century Mobilizations? 19:30 Conference Dinner (Venue: Norrlands Nation, Västra Ågatan 14) FRIDAY, 30 AUGUST PLENARY SESSION VI 9:00-10:15 (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken) 9:00-9:30 Audrey Kobayashi, Queens University, Canada Robert Park, the Concept of Race, and the Influence of Symbolic Interaction in American Geography 9:30-10:00 Irene Molina, Uppsala University, Sweden Spatial Ethnography –Understanding the Interactions between Individuals and Places 10:00-10:15 Discussion 10:15-10:45 Coffee and Refreshments PLENARY SESSION VI 10:45-12:45 (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken) 10:45-11:15 Ella Johansson, Uppsala University, Sweden Does Methodology Matter: Interviews versus Observations 11:15-11:45 P eter Adler, University of Denver, USA Notes from a Conjoint Career: Four Decades of Ethnography’s ‘Twists’ and ‘Turns’’ 11:45-12:15 Patrik Aspers, Uppsala University, Sweden What is Qualitative in Qualitative Social Science? 12:15-12:45 Discussion 12:45-13:45 Lunch Break CONCURRENT SESSIONS No 13-16 13:45-15:30 (Venue: Campus Engelska Parken) 15:30-15:45 Coffee and Refreshments 15:45-17:45 Talking About Ethnography: Interdisciplinary Workshop for Young Researchers with ary Fine, Jack Katz, Emma Engdahl, Joseph Kotarba, Ella Johansson and Patrik Aspers G (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken) Chairs: Alexander Dobeson, Jasna Sersic, Daniel Bodén 17:45-18:00 Conference Closing: (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken) 18:00-19:00 EU SSSI Business meeting, Engelska Parken (Venue: Ihre-salen, Campus Engelska Parken) 19:00 Buffet-dinner (’tapas’) at Matikum, Engelska parken: An evening of dance with Bengt Starrin and live music with REZAR. The IV EU SSSI Conference, 28-30 August 2013, Uppsala Thematic Sessions PROGRAMME WEDNESDAY, 17:30-19:00, 28 AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Norrlands Nation, Västra Ågatan 14 Session 1: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM, PEACE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION Room: Gamla Salen Session organizer and chair: A ndrea Salvini, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy 17:30-17:50 Valentina Bartolucci, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy Discourse, Social Interaction and Peace 17:50-18:00 Discussion 18:00-18:20 Georgios Tsarsitalidis, Euroculture, Uppsala University, Sweden & Deusto University, Bilbao,Spain European Economic Crisis- Revitalizing National Identity throughPolitical Cartoons and Images 18:20-18:30 Discussion 18:30-18:50 Andrea Salvini, Department of Political and Social Sciences, University of Pisa, Italy Symbolic Interactionism on “peace” and “peaceful interactions” 18:50-19:00 Discussion Session 2: RACE, SELF & IDENTITY Room: Strömholm-salen Session Organizer and Chair: Nikolay Zakharov, School of Social Sciences, Södertörn University, Sweden Room: Strömholm-salen 17:30-17:50 WEDNESDAY AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Norrlands Nation, Västra Ågatan 14 William Ryan Force, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Western New England University & James Michael Thomas, University of Mississippi, United States Race, Affect, and the Embodied Self 17:50-18:00 Discussion 18:00-18:20 Denis Peskov, Centre for Ethnopolitical Research, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia He Who Has Eyes Let Him See: Some New Ways of the Visual Presentation and Perception of States 18:20-18:30 Discussion 18:30-18:50 Nathan Light, Department of Linguistics and Philology, Uppsala University, Sweden Speculation on the Past: Symbolic Interactionism and Historical Narrative in Central Asia 18:50-19:00 Discussion Session 3: EMOTIONS AND STIGMA MANAGEMENT Room: Biblioteket Chair: Susanna Nordström, Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden 17:30-17:50 David Shulman & Rebecca Heslin, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, Lafayette College, United States Stigma 2.0: Mocking Content and the Amplification of Deviance in Virtual Social Interactions 17:50-18:00 Discussion 18:00-18:20 Thaddeus Muller, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Dealing with the Academic Stigma of Fraud: The Case of Diederik Stapel and his PhD Students 18:20-18:30 Discussion Room: Biblioteket WEDNESDAY AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Norrlands Nation, Västra Ågatan 14 18:30-18:50 Judith Schmelz, University of Kassel, Germany Cynicism and Emotions, or Cynical Emotions? 18:50-19:00 Discussion THURSDAY, 10:15-11:45, 29 AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken Session 4: INTERACTIONIST CONCEPTS AND MUSIC IN EVERYDAY LIFE Room: 2-0022 Session Organizer and Chair: Joseph A. Kotarba, Center for Social Inquiry, Texas State University-San Marcos, USA 10:15-10.35 Vincenzo Romania, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padova, Italy Daily Life as a Musical Performance: An Interactionist Approach 10:35-10:45 Discussion 10:45-11:05 Susanna Nordström, Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden Uncertainty and Discontinuation as Facilitators of Agency? - The Case of the 21st Century Emo 11:05-11:15 Discussion 11:15-11:35 Thaddeus Müller, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, The Netherlands Lou Reed’s walk on the Wild Side: Transgression in Sex, Drugs, and Rock’n Roll 11:35-11:45 Discussion THURSDAY AUGUST, 2013 Session 5: DANCE, HUMAN PERFORMATIVITY & EMOTIONS Room: 16-0054 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken Chair: Bengt Starrin, Institute for Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden 10:15-10:35 Susie Scott, University of Sussex, UK The Paradox of Shy Performativity: Stage Fright and its Relation to Shyness in Everyday Life 10:35-10:45 Discussion 10:45-11:05 Lars-Erik Berg, Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde Non-vocal Gestures as Language - The Example of Dancing 11:05-11:15 Discussion 11:15-11:35 Bengt Starrin, Institute for Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden Rituals on the Dance Floor – From Bumper Belt to Dirty Fox 11:35-11:45 Discussion Session 6: YOUTH CULTURE & SOCIAL DEVIANCE Room: 6-0031 Chair: Philip Lalander, Department of Social Work, Malmö University, Sweden 10:15-10:35 Margaretha Järvinen, University of Copenhagen, Department of Sociology &The Danish National Centre for Social Research (SFI) & Signe Ravn, SFI Cannabis Careers Revisited: Applying Howard S. Becker’s Theory to Present-day Cannabis Use 10:35-10:45 Discussion THURSDAY AUGUST, 2013 Room: 6-0031 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken 10:45-11:05 Philip Lalander, Department of Social Work, Malmö University, Sweden A Social Dimension on Everyday Life among Heroin Users in a Swedish Setting 11:05-11:15 Discussion 11:15-11:35 (19) Elke Van Hellemont, University of Leuven, Belgium Seduced by Imagination: Young Men and the Seduction of Gangs 11:35-11:45 Discussion Session 7: THE PRIVATE BODY IN THE PUBLIC REALM Room: 6-K1031 Chair: Thomas Kumlin, School of Health, Care and Social Welfare, Mälardalen University, Sweden 10:15-10:35 Magdalena Wojciechowska, University of Łódź, Poland Mine – Not Mine. Problematic Aspects of How Female Escorts Experience Agency over Their Bodies 10:35-10:45 Discussion 10:45-11:05 Liselotte Olsson, Institute for Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden Constructing Family through Assisted Reproduction 11:05-11:15 Discussion 11:15-11:35 Vesa Leppänen, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden Sociability in Paid Domestic Work 11:35-11:45 Discussion THURSDAY, 15:30-17:00, 29 AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken Session 8 : GAMES, FRAMES AND THE ORGANIZATION OF PLAY EXPERIENCE Room: 6-0022 Session Organizer and Chair: Jonas Linderoth, Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg, Sweden 15:30-15:50 Matilda Hellman, Department of Social Research, University of Helsinki,Finland The Role of Temporality in the Problem Definition of the Excessive Playing of MMORPGs 15:50-16:00 Discussion 16:00-16:20 Jonas Linderoth, Department of Education, Communication and Learning, University of Gothenburg & Adam Chapman, Department of Media, Culture and Society, University of Hull, UK The Limits of Play in Game Narratives Concerning World War II 16:20-16:30 Discussion 16:30-16:50 Jukka Kemppainen, Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde Problem Gambling -Identity - Cultural Environment 16:50-17:00 Discussion Session 9: COPING WITH DEATH IN EVERYDAY LIFE Room: 16-0042 Chair: Silvia Pezzoli, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Florence, Italy 15:30-15:50 Annika Jonsson, Faculty of Social and Life Sciences, Sociology, Karlstad University The Ontology of Continuing Bonds 15:50-16:00 Discussion Room: 16-0042 THURSDAY AUGUST, 2013 16:00-16:20 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken Viola Abermet, University of Kassel, Germany. The Mortician as Substitute Family 16:20-16:30 Discussion 16:30-16:50 Silvia Pezzoli, Department of Political Science and Sociology, University of Florence, Italy Mourning: Self-help Groups as a Means of Returning Life 16:50-17:00 Discussion Session 10:THE SOCIAL AND MEDICAL FUNCTION OF PRAGMATIST METHODOLOGIES Room: 6-0031 Chair: Michael Dellwing, Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany 15:30-15:50 Marianne Boström, School of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Örebro, Sweden Everyday Life as a Treatment Tool for Change and the Development of Self for Persons with Severe Mental Disabilities 15:50-16:00 Discussion 16:00-16:20 Michael Dellwing, Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany The Use Value of Psychiatric Diagnoses: Addiction Ascriptions as Involvement Control 16:20-16:30 Discussion 16:30-16:50 Alireza Moula, Department of Social and Psychological Studies, Karlstad University, Sweden A Pragmatist Methodology for Qualitative Research Design 16:50-17:00 Discussion THURSDAY AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken Session 11: CONSTRUCTING SOCIAL ATTITUDES Room: 21-0011 (Ihre-Salen) Chair: Ella Johansson, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden 15:30-15:50 Jo Ann Oravec, College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin, United States Physical and Virtual Hoarding: Personal Possessions as Spectacle in an Era of Overconsumption 15:50-16:10 Andreas Henriksson, Department of Sociology, Institute for Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden Organizing Intimacy - Swedish Singles Activities as Negotiations over Intimate Relations 16:10-16:30 Anders Lundberg, Institute for Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden Constructing Environmentalism as a Faith Issue 16:30-16:50 Malin Lindström, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden Queer Ventures or Business as usual? Everyday Experiences of Swedish Entrepreneurs in Cultural and Creative Industries. 16:50-17:10 Discussion Session 12: SELF-EXPRESSIVE BEHAVIOR AMONG YOUTH Room: 16-0041 Chair: Lika Rodin, Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde 15:30-15:50 Sveinn Eggertsson, Department of Anthropology and Folkloristics, University of Island, Island Some Concerns Regarding the Use of ‘Graffiti’ as a Classificatory Term 15:50-16:00 Discussion 16:00-16:20 THURSDAY AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken Vessela Misheva, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University & Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden Tattooing as a Modern Phenomenon: A Symbolic Interactionist Perspective 16:20-16:30 Discussion 16:30-16:50 Anna Liv Jonsson, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden Making Good Traditions Better – Student Life at the Uppsala Student Nations 16:50-17:00 Discussion FRIDAY, 13:45-15:30, 30 AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken Session 13: SOCIAL CRISIS, TRUTH AND TRUST IN POLITICAL DISCOURSE Room: 16-0041 Chair: Andrew Blasko, European Polytechnical University, Bulgaria & Uppsala University, Sweden 13:45-14:05 Toshko Krastev, European Polytechnical University, Bulgaria Truth and Deception: Types of Deformations of Party-political Reflections 14:05-14:15 Discussion 14:15-14:35 Maija Vorslava, Faculty of Economics and Management, University of Latvia, Latvia The Model of Rebuilding Public Trust in Governing Institutions in Latvia 14:35-14:45 Discussion 14:45-15:05 Antoaneta Hristova, European Polytechnical University & Institute of Psychology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences & Bulgaria Cultural Values and Political Conservatism in Terms of a Society in Transition – The Case of Bulgaria 15:05-15:15 Discussion FRIDAY AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken Session 14: INTERACTION, POLITICS, AND WELL-BEING Room: 16-0042 Chair: Irene Molina, Department of Social and Economic Geography & Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, Sweden 13:45-14:05 Saddik M. Gouhar, English Literature Department (FHSS), United Arab Emirates University, UAE Integrating Western / Christian Symbolism into Arabic –Islamic Literature 14:05-14:25 Roy Kemmers, Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands Becoming Politically Discontented 14:25-14:45 Hamideh Addelyan Rasi, Department of Medical and Health Sciences, Linköping University, Sweden The Cognitive Empowerment of Female Youth in Iran: Can Psychosocial Interventions Improve Their Lives? 14:45-15:05 Anita Vaivade, Latvian Academy of Culture, Latvia The Impact of Political Discourse upon Conceptualisation and Communication Practices: The Case of Suiti Cultural Space 15:05-15:30 Discussion FRIDAY AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken Session 15: CULTURE; TECHNOLOGY & MEANING PRODUCTION Room: 6-0031 Chair: Fredrik Palm, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden 13:45 – 14:05 Daniel Bodén, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, Sweden Flexible Bureaucracy – Technology and New Public Management 14:05 – 14:25 Michael Dellwing, Department of Social Sciences, University of Kassel, Germany Looking-glass Television 14:25-14:45 Gerrit Retterath und Alessandro Tietz, University of Kassel, Germany Images of Otherness in ‘The Walking Dead 14:45-15:05 Lisa Salmonsson, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, Sweden Doing Physicianship: Reflection on the Role of Interactions for the Social Construction of Immigranthood in Swedish Health Care Organizations 15:05-15:30 Discussion Session 16: SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM: HISTORICAL, THEORETICAL & METHODOLOGICAL REFLECTIONSR Room: 6-0022 Chair: Lars-Erik Berg, Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden 13:45 – 14:05 Lika Rodin, Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden Micro-Macro Issue in the Mirror of Microsociology FRIDAY AUGUST, 2013 Venue: Campus Engelska Parken Room: 16-0041 14:05-14:15 Discussion 14:15 – 14:35 Lars-Erik Berg. Department of Social Psychology, Institute for Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden Levels of Language Power 14:35-14:45 Discussion 14:45-15:05 Berith Nyqvist Cech, Department of Social and Psychological Studies, University of Karlstad, Sweden Sweden Just to be called “elderly”? 15:05-15:15 Discussion Per Månson, Department of Sociology and Work Science, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Sociology and the Development of Symbolic Interactionism in Sweden (Per Månson will present his paper on Thursday 29 August.Time and venue will be announced later) Keynote-speakers: PATRICIA A. ADLER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Together with Peter Adler she has co-authored Wheeling and Dealing, Momentum, Membership Roles in Field Research, Backboards and Blackboards, Peer Power, Paradise Laborers, and The Tender Cut, among many other books and articles. PETER ADLER is Professor of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Denver. For nearly 40 years all of his work has engaged the symbolic interactionist and ethnographic perspectives. His main areas of interest include social psychology, deviant behavior, the sociology of sport, and the sociology of children. He and Patricia A. Adler have received a number of joint and individual awards from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, including the Mentor Excellence Award, two Charles Horton Cooley Awards (Honorable Mention), and the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement. LONNIE ATHENS is a long-time Professor of Criminal Justice at Seton Hall University, United States. His research interests center on domination, violence and conflict, and naturalistic methods of inquiry. Athens has received Seton Hall University’s Researcher of the Year Award for Social and Natural Scientists and the George Herbert Mead Award of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction for his career achievements. He has authored and edited numerous articles and books. He hopes that radical interactionism will one day become a viable alternative to the much older, better known, and conservative interactional approach that is popularly referred to as symbolic interactionism. PATRIK ASPERS is Professor of Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. His research focuses on economic sociology, especially markets, and sociological theory, with an empirical interest in fashion. Aspers is the author of Markets in Fashion; Orderly Fashion, A Sociology of Markets; and Markets. He is also co-editor with Jens Beckert of The Worth of Goods. TOVA BENSKI is Researcher and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Colman School of Managment, Rishon LeZion, Israel. Her research addresses such issues as social movements, protest, peace movements, emotions, gender, body, and identity. Her most recent publications include The Holocaust as Active Memory: The Past in the Present and Internet and Emotions. MIKAEL CARLEHEDEN is director of the Ph.D. program and Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He has served as President of the Swedish Sociological Association and is currently editor of Distinktion: The Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory. His research focuses on critical social theory, the theory of modernity, and the theory of science. Carleheden’s recent publications in English include “Bauman on Politics: Stillborn Democracy,” “The Imaginary Significations of Modernity: A Re-Examination,” and “Recognition, Social Invisibility, and Disrespect.” He is currently preparing for publication On Theorizing: C. S. Peirce and Contemporary Social Science” and The Ambivalent Significance of Freedom in Sociological Theory. ROBERT DINGWALL is a consulting sociologist and part-time Professor of Sociology at Nottingham Trent University, United Kingdom. He has broad international experience in teaching and research, particularly in the study of law, medicine, science, and technology, focusing primarily on issues concerning professions, work, and organizations. His writing has emphasized social theory and qualitative research methods. Before establishing his professional practice, Dingwall was the founding Director of the Institute for Science and Society at the University of Nottingham, a leading European research center in science and technology studies. His academic recognition includes terms as editor-inchief of Sociology of Health and Illness and Symbolic Interaction, the international journal of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He has also held office in the Law and Society Association and the American Sociological Association. EMMA ENGDAHL is Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology and Social Work, Aalborg University, Denmark. Her fields of research are the sociology of emotions, the sociology of the body, self-development, identity-formation, non-verbal communication, social pathologies, and the structural transformation of modern society. The aim of her research is the development of innovative methods and new knowledge about (a) the social conditions for individual development of body, emotion, and mind; (b) the structural transformation of norms and values within modern society; and (c) the effects these changes have on the social conditions for identity-formation and self-realization. Engdahl is the author of a number of monographs, articles, and book chapters. GARY ALAN FINE is the John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University, United States. He has served as President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is a recipient of the Society’s George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement in Symbolic Interaction and the Mentor Excellence Award, as well as the Charles Horton Cooley Award (twice) for a book-length monograph. His most recent book is Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Culture and Action. ELLA JOHANSSON is Professor of European Ethnology at the Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University. A prominent set of historical themes in her research concerns social change and modernity in Northern Sweden during the 19th and early 20th centuries, including Sweden’s transformation from a farming society into a modern industrial nation as well as relations between the periphery and the political and economic center. A second thematic area in her research concerns Swedish national identity in relation to modern immigration as well as heritage, landscape, and gender issues. Her current research addresses children’s play in suburban Stockholm, swimming and national identity, and the early modern ritual of godmothers on baptism day. JACK KATZ is Professor of Sociology at UCLA, United States. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study, Stanford University, and an invited professor at several European universities. His current research includes a historical and contemporary study of diverse neighborhoods in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles; studies of work careers and material status strategies in urban settings; and a reconceptualization of sociological methodology for qualitative research. His publications include Seductions of Crime; How Emotions Work; “From How to Why: On Luminous Description and Causal Inference in Ethnography”; “Toward a Natural History of Ethical Censorship”; “Time for New Urban Ethnographies”; “Emotion’s Crucible”; “Se cuisiner un statut. Des noms aux verbes dans l’étude de la stratification sociale”; and “Methods for Mortals” (forthcoming). AUDREY KOBAYASHI is Professor and holder of the Queen’s Research Chair of Geography at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada. Her research focuses on the social and political geographies of human rights, and she has published widely on questions of race, gender, migration, employment equity, civic participation, and the relationship between intellectual history and anti-oppression movements. Koyabashi recently completed a term as President of the Association of American Geographers, and her presidential address raised questions concerning geographical approaches to racialization throughout the 20th century. JOSEPH A. KOTARBA is Professor of Sociology, Texas State University, United States, where he serves as Director of the Center for Social Inquiry. He is also a faculty member at the Institute for Translational Sciences at the University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston. Kotarba’s major areas of scholarly interest are culture, health and illness, and social theory. He has received the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction as well as Society’s Mentor Excellence Award. His most recent books include The Present and Future of Symbolic Interactionism, co-edited with Andrea Salvini and Bryce Merrill; Understanding Society through Popular Music, co-authored with Bryce Merrill, Patrick Williams, and Phillip Vannini; and Baby Boomer Rock ‘n’ Roll Fans: The Music Never Ends. LAUREN LANGMAN is Professor of Sociology, Loyola University of Chicago, United States. He has long worked in the tradition of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory, particularly on relationships between culture, identity, politics/political movements, and the psychosocial in a global world. He is a co-founder of the Global Studies Association-North America, past President of Research Committee 36 on Alienation Theory and Research at the International Sociological Association, as well as past president of the Marxist section of the American Sociological Association. He has served as the Illinois director of the Midwest Sociological Society, as a member of the board of the Globalization and Transnational Studies section of the American Sociological Association, as a member of the editorial board of Sociological Theory, and is currently a board member of Current Perspectives in Social Theory and Critical Sociology. Recent publications include a number of articles and book chapters dealing with the social psychology of nationalism, national character, globalization and alienation, identity, hegemony, global justice movements, Islamic fundamentalism, and the body. His most recent books include Trauma, Promise, and Millennium: The Evolution of Alienation; Mind and Exploitation: Alienation and its Limits; Alienation and Carnival; The Carnivalization of America (forthcoming); and Identity and Hegemony (forthcoming). GALE MILLER is the current President of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and also Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Marquette University, United States. He has longstanding research interests in the sociology of troubles and social problems, social theory, and social institutions. These interests intermingle in much of his research, particularly in his analyses of how personal troubles and social problems are defined and managed in diverse human service institutions. They also inform his interest in public sociology. Miller’s research includes studies of a work to welfare program (Enforcing the Work Ethic: Rhetoric and Everyday Life in a Work Incentive Program) and the evolution and practice of solution-focused brief therapy (Becoming Miracle Workers: Language and Meaning in Brief Therapy). A major theme in his current research involves the ways in which families manage enduring crises. He is also involved in studies of drug treatment programs in Denmark. VESSELA MISHEVA is Professor of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University, and Professor of Social Psychology, Institute of Technology and Society, University of Skövde, Sweden. She is President of Research Committee 36 on Alienation Theory and Research and also a former Vicepresident of Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics and Systems Theory at the International Sociological Association. She has published extensively on autopoietic systems theory in sociology, the social studies of science, and sociological social psychology. Her work has a particular focus on symbolic interactionism and the theory of self and socialization, self-conscious emotions, such as shame and guilt, self-expressive youth behavior, and well-being. IRENE MOLINA is Professor of Social and Economic Geography, Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University. Her research interests have focused on the constructions that shape inequality and injustice and the intersectional relations between them. Her writing has sought to reveal the repressive mechanisms underlying racism, sexism, and the class structure of society from an integrated perspective within the framework of the capitalist world order, with an emphasis upon how the system of racial rules is constructed and results from the material process of racism. She is currently a contributor to the project Those Left Behind – Female Migration and the Transnational Family in Latin America as well as project coordinator for Planning for Segregation? Social and Ethnic Separatism in the Swedish City. MICHAEL THOMSON is Associate Professor of Political Theory, the Department of Political Science, William Paterson University, United States. His areas of research include political and social theory, moral philosophy, political psychology, critical theory, German idealism, classical political thought, and Western Marxism. He is currently researching the ways in which social and economic life impacts and shapes forms of political consciousness and is undertaking the construction of a new understanding of radical political thought and critical theory. He is the founding editor of Logos: A Journal of Modern Society & Culture. Recent publications he has authored and edited include Constructing Marxist Ethics: Critique, Normativity, Praxis (forthcoming); The Republican Reinvention of Radicalism (forthcoming); Georg Lukács Reconsidered: Essays in Politics, Philosophy, and Aesthetics; The Politics of Inequality: A Political History of the Idea of Economic Inequality in America; Islam and the West: Critical Perspectives on Modernity; and Confronting the New Conservatism: The Rise of the Right in America. JAN TROST is Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. His main areas of empirical research have been disaster studies and family studies from a symbolic interactionist perspective. He was the first researcher to investigate the new system of non-marital cohabitation as well as Living Apart Together (LAT) relationships. He became Honorary President of the Committee on Family Research of the International Sociological Association in 1994. The National Council on Family Relations inaugurated the “Jan Trost Award for Outstanding Contributions to Comparative Family Studies” in 1999, of which Trost was the first recipient. He has been visiting professor at the University of Minnesota, the Kinsey Institute, Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Leuven University, University of North Carolina, and elsewhere, and is the author of approximately 40 books and 300 articles and book chapters. International Organizing Committee Chair: Vessela Misheva, Uppsala University & University of Skövde, Sweden Michael Dellwing, University of Kassel, Germany Robert Dingwall, Nottingham Trent University, UK Thaddeus Müller, University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands Andrea Salvini, University of Pisa, Italy National Organizing Committee Chair: Fredrik Palm, Uppsala University (Fredrik.Palm@soc.uu.se) Lars-Erik Berg, University of Skövde Emma Engdahl, Örebro Univerisity Tanya Jukkala, Södertörn University Tomas Kumlin, Mälardalen University Jonas Linderoth, Gothenburg University Alireza Moula, University of Karlstad Susanna Nordström, University of Skövde Anders Persson, University of Lund Lika Rodin, University of Skövde Bengt Starrin, University of Karlstad Local Organizing Committee Chair and Program Coordinator: Vessela Misheva (Vessela.Misheva@soc.uu.se; Vessela.Misheva@his.se) Administrative Coordinator: Helena Olsson, Department of Sociology (Helena.Olsson@soc.uu.se) Ella Johansson, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology Irene Molina, Institute for Housing and Urban Research & Department of Cultural Geography Fredrik Palm, Department of Sociology Susanne Stenbacka, Department of Social and Economic Geography Jan Trost, Department of Sociology Daniel Bodén, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology Alexander Dobeson, Ph.D. Candidate Department of Sociology Jasna Sersic, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Social and Economic Geography Anna Liv Jonsson, Master’s student, Department of Sociology The IVth Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction www.his.se/eu-sssi
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