Symbolic interactionism is one of the most enduring--and certainly the most sociological--of all social psychologies. In this landmark work, Denzin traces its tortured history from its roots in American pragmatism to its present-day encounter with poststructuralism and postmodernism. (Archaeology/Anthropology)

Norman Denzin is Professor of Sociology, Communications and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of numerous books, including Sociological Methods: The Research Act; Interpretive Interactionism; The Recovering Alcoholic; and The Alcoholic Self, which won the Cooley Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in 1988. He is the editor of Studies in Symbolic Interaction: A Research Journal and The Sociological Quaterly.