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Author Harman, Lesley D., 1956-

Title The modern stranger : on language and membership / by Lesley D. Harman
Published Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1988, ©1987

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 182 pages)
Series Contributions to the sociology of language ; 47
Contributions to the sociology of language ; 47.
Contents Introduction -- Chapter I: Sociology and “The Stranger� -- 1. Sociology and “The Stranger� -- 1.1. “The Stranger� as an Ideal Type -- 1.2. “The Stranger� as Stranger -- 1.3. Simmel�s Stranger -- 2. Stranger as “Marginal Man� -- 2.1. Park: Migration and Emancipation -- 2.2. Stonequist: Internationalism and Ambivalence -- 2.3. Hughes: Status Conflict and Inequality -- 2.4. Siu: Ethnocentrism and Sojourney -- 2.5. Rose: Small-town Duality -- 2.6. Limits of the Marginal Man -- 3. Stranger as Newcomer -- 3.1. Wood: First Encounters
3.2. Schutz: Reflexive Crisis4. Toward the Modern Stranger -- Chapter II: The Social Organization of Strangeness: Toward a Redefinition of Home -- 1. The Lonely Crowd -- 1.1. Tradition-direction -- 1.2. Inner-direction -- 1.3. Other-direction -- 1.4. Communicative Normalization -- 2. Stranger as Automation and Home as Prison: The Dilemma of Authoritarian Man -- 3. The Homeless Mind: Home as Everywhere and Nowhere -- 4. A Nation of Strangers: Home as Possibility -- 5. The Migratory Elite: Education for Strangeness
6. The Organization Man: Adaptability as a Way of Life6.1. Adaptability as a Way of Life -- 7. Protean Man: Home as Myth -- 8. A Redefinition: Home as a Moveable Feast -- Chapter III: On Being in Between: Observation and Marginality -- 1. In Between -- 1.1. Mapping -- 2. Observation and Marginality -- 2.1. Habitus -- 2.2. Going Native -- 2.3. Note-taking -- 3. Through the Looking Glass -- 4. The Trained Observer as the Modern Stranger -- Chapter IV: The Language of Membership -- 1. The Search for Authentic Experience: The Publicity of Privacy
2. Reflexivity and Reflectivity : The Image of Self in the Broken Mirror3. The Language of Membership -- 3.1. The Semiological Chain -- 3.2. Communicative Competence: Recognition and Negotiation -- Chapter V: Toward the Modern Stranger -- 1. Implications -- 1.1. Empirical Issues -- 1.2. Theoretical Implications -- 2. Conclusion -- Appendix A: Some Political Implications of the Modern Stranger -- References -- Index
Notes Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--York University, Toronto, Ont
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-172) and index
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Subject Marginality, Social.
Alienation (Social psychology)
Home -- Psychological aspects
Group identity.
Social Alienation
Social Identification
group identity.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Social Psychology.
Alienation (Social psychology)
Group identity
Home -- Psychological aspects
Marginality, Social
Soziolinguistik
Fremder
Soziologie
Vervreemding.
Marginaliteit.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110872897
3110872897