Norman K. Denzin has gathered a team of leading experts to explore and showcase a variety of topics in the field of symbolic interaction.Some of the topics explored include extending dramaturgical and grounded theory, and new empirical and theoretical inquiries into fashion, journalism, stigma, police body work, autobiography, and gender studies.

Chapter 1. Police Body-Worn Cameras and Axon Enterprises’ Claims in Media; Erick Laming and Christopher J. Schneider Chapter 2. Subjectivity Struggles: W. E. B. Du Bois's Contribution to Radical Interactionism; Gil Musolf  Chapter 3. G.H. Mead, Morality, and Sociality: An Interactionist Reading of The Man in the High Castle; Michael Katovich  Chapter 4. The Symbolic Interactionist as Writer; Joseph Kotarba  Chapter 5. Reflexivity in George Herbert Mead; Norbert Wiley  Chapter 6. Discovering the roots of autobiography and autoethnography in the Confessions of Jean-Jacques Rousseau: A Dialogue; Alina Pop and Marco Marzano Chapter 7. “Suck it up, Buttercup”: Status Silencing and the Maintenance of Toxic Masculinity in Academia; John Pruit, Amanda Pruit, and Carol Rambo   Chapter 8. More Like Sons of Conformity: Motorcycle Clubs, Moral Careers and Normalization; Norman Conti Chapter 9. Becoming a Journalist. The Career of Young Reporters and Interns in two Newsrooms in Argentina; Laura Rosenberg  Chapter 10. Contemplative Grounded Theory: Possibilities and limitations; Krzysztof Konecki  Chapter 11. Risk, Structural Stigma, and the Exercise of Power: Keynote Address to the 2018 Couch-Stone Symposium and IX Annual Meetings of the European Symbolic Interactionists; Stacey Hannem  Chapter 12. Dialogues and Dramas of Conviviality and Confrontation; Robert Perinbanayagam  Chapter 13. Rhetorical Processes in the Sales Relationship in Luxury Retail; Veronica Manlow and Christopher Ferree