This collection of outstanding essays addresses the concern of an astructural bias. Contemporary interactionists and their critics, social theorists, and students of sociology who are interested in assessing the ability of SI to fully address the social circumstances and social problems of an increasingly precarious world should read this book.

The Intellectual Origins of the Debate Over the Astructural Bias - Gil Richard Musolf Ruinous Reification: The Astructural Bias in Symbolic Interactionism - Patrick J. W. McGinty Jane Addams, the Chicago Schools of Sociology, and the Emergence of Symbolic Interaction, 1889-1935 - Mary Jo Deegan Mead’S Field Theory and Its Implications for American Minorities - Norbert Wiley Overcoming Aprocessual Bias in the Study of Inequality: Parsing the Capitalist Interaction Order - Michael Schwalbe Symbolic Interaction and Narrative Productions of Meaning in Public Spaces - Donileen R. Loseke The Persistence of the Power Deficit? Advancing Power Premises in Contemporary Interactionist Theory - Natalia Ruiz-Junco Astructure/Which Structure?: Rethinking “Astructural Bias” in Symbolic Interaction Through Georges Bataille and His Followers - Steve Bailey Final Assessments - Gil Richard Musolf NEW INTERPRETIVE WORKS Alcoholism and the Simpsons: Connecting Symbolic Interactionism and Pastiche - Michael A. Katovich and Sarah Rosenthal Vaughan