3268 - Trespassing /Poaching /Raiding /Transcending, Session II: Culture, Action, Practice, and Occasion

Session Submission Type: Paper Session 100min

Description

Is the era of what C. Wright Mills called “grand theory” past? What are the prospects for less holistic but still “general” theory? What about “social theory” that transcends the critical or normative boundaries of conventional sociological theory? Few sociologists today search for the cohesive conceptual framework of someone like Talcott Parsons – the object of Mills’s critique. Yet robust projects of bounded theorizing continue across diverse topoi, however construed. This session focuses on how sociologists can use both classical and more contemporary sociological theories, separately or in relation to one another, to address the complex of issues connecting culture, action, practice, and structurations of social life.

Sub Unit

• Theory Section / Trespassing /Poaching/ Raiding /Transcending: Projects of Integration in Sociological Theory (2 Sessions)

Session Organizers

• John R. Hall, University of California-Davis

• Simeon J. Newman, University of Michigan

Presider

• John R. Hall, University of California-Davis

Individual Presentations

• Garfinkel, Parsons, and the Discovery of Culture - Jason Turowetz, University of Siegen

• Reflexive Action as an Object of Sociological Inquiry: Bourdieu and Beyond - Mary Shi, University of California-Berkeley

• The Two Main Varieties of Practice Theory - Michael Strand, Brandeis University

• A Theory of Occasions: The Presentation of the Self in Non-Everyday Life - Abigail Jorgensen, University of Notre Dame

Discussant

• John Levi Martin