FRONT COVER -- STUDIES IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTION -- COPYRIGHT PAGE -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PART I: THEORETICAL OPENINGS -- THE MESODOMAIN OF WELFARE REFORM: RENEGOTIATING THE ORDER OF ECONOMIC INEQUALITY -- INTRODUCTION -- THEORETICAL SCAFFOLDING AND RESEARCH CONTRIBUTIONS -- RESEARCH METHODS -- FIELD OBSERVATIONS -- IMPRESSIONS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- MILKSHAKES AND CONVERTIBLES: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL REFLECTION -- PART ONE: SARA THE ETHNOGRAPHER -- PART TWO: MG CARS AND WITCHCRAFT -- AFTERWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- REFERENCES -- THE SUPERIORITY DELUSION AND CRITICAL CONSCIOUSNESS: THE PARADOX OF ROLE-TAKING REFUSAL IN THE MICROFOUNDATION OF DEHUMANIZATION AND RESISTANCE -- INTRODUCTION -- ROLE-TAKING: THE HUMANIZING ELEMENT -- JUSTIFYING PERSECUTION -- CONSCIOUSNESS, RESISTANCE, AND COLLECTIVE ACTION -- JUSTIFYING PROTECTION -- REFLECTED RESISTANCE AND MODERNITY -- THEORIES OF RACIALIZATION -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- COLLECTIVE IDENTITY NARRATIVES: HISTORICAL AND EMERGENT STORIES OF SELFHOOD IN A DEINDUSTRIALIZING COMMUNITY -- INTRODUCTION -- REFERENCES -- PART II: STUDIES IN SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION -- NEVER MIND THE SCHOLAR, HERE’S THE OLD PUNK: IDENTITY, COMMUNITY, AND THE AGING MUSIC FAN -- DATA COLLECTION AND ANALYSIS -- HE’S MORE PUNK THAN ME -- DOING PUNK -- BEING PUNK -- REFERENCES -- COMPLIANCE DRAMAS IN ALCOHOLIC ANONYMOUS FILMS: AN INTERACTIONIST READING OF THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES -- THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES AS AN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS FILM -- COMPLIANCE DRAMAS IN THE DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES -- CONCLUSION: COMPLIANCE DRAMAS AND THE PROBLEMATIC -- REFERENCES -- INTERACTIONS AND THE DRAMA OF ENGAGEMENT -- GAMES, SOCIAL ACTS, AND SEMIOSIS -- DRAMAS OF ENGAGEMENT -- ENGAGING WITH SOUND -- ENGAGING WITH STRUCTURES -- ENGAGING WITH SYNTAX -- ENGAGING WITH SPEECH GENRES -- ENGAGING WITH TROPES -- ENGAGING WITH NARRATIVES -- FORMS OF ENGAGEMENT -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- PART III: INTERPRETIVE INTERVENTIONS -- IMAGINING IMAGINATION -- THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS IN THE UNITED STATES (FRANCISCO ALATORRE) -- THE IMAGINED COMMUNITY OF TERRORISM (DAVID BERG) -- DAKOTA SIOUX PRISON LETTERS 1862–1867 (ROY JANISCH) -- IMAGINATION IN THE COLLABORATIVE LAW MOVEMENT (ELIZABETH MCLIN) -- THE IMAGINED REVENGE FANTASIES OF MASS KILLERS (JENNIFER MURRAY) -- THE IMAGINED COMMUNITIES OF UKRAINIANS (ANDREY MELNIKOV) -- IMAGINATION IN ROLE PLAYING VIDEO GAMES (TIMOTHY ROWLANDS) -- IMAGINING THE HUTU GENOCIDE IN 1994 RWANDA (KYRSTEN SINEMA) -- CONCLUDING IMAGININGS (SCOTT RENSHAW) -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- INTIMATE DECEPTION IN EVERYDAY LIFE -- THE FASCINATION-FEAR DIALECTIC -- ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN STRANGERS: ILLUSIONS OF INTERSUBJECTIVITY -- STRATEGIC MISREPRESENTATION BETWEEN DRAMATURGICAL TEAMS -- COMPETITIVE GAME PLAY BETWEEN TEAMMATES -- BETRAYAL BY AN INTIMATE ACCOMPLICE -- TRANSCEIVERSHIP AND DUPLICITOUS CONSCIOUSNESS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS --