Sentiments and Acts (Communication & Social Order) - Softcover

Pestello, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0202304450 ISBN 13: 9780202304458

Publisher: Routledge, 1993

Synopsis

The relation between attitudes and behavior has been of enduring concern to social scientists over the past half century. The present volume is a sequel to a landmark theoretical and methodological critique of the literature on that relationship, published by the first author, Dr. Deutscher, in 1973. It is informed throughout by a symbolic interactionist perspective, and turns on issues of validity and credibility of the verbal evidence on which social science still heavily relies in its accounts of behavior.

What Sentiments and Acts provides is a more complex, nuanced, and valid account of the relationship between what we say and what we do. Drawing on the example of Deutscher's earlier research and of cognate work by ethno-methodologists―this book is, in part, the history of a problem―the authors argue for a "double screen," in part methodological and in part conceptual, through which the evidence for inconsistencies must be sifted.

The account here adduced goes well beyond the merely interpersonal level; it insists, instead, on the problematics of the symbolic language used to express or convey the meaning of human behavior. In so doing, it extends the perspective on social organization it embodies, and suggests a relevant and welcome line of investigation for those doing applied work in the nexus of human relations.

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"A sequel to the landmark study, What We Say/What We Do: Sentiments and Acts (1973). The authors update and elaborate their previous theoretical and methodological critiques of the vast sociological literature on the relationship between what people say and what they do... Extremely thorough index and references. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty."

--S. G. Mestrovi'c, Choice

"A sequel to the landmark study, What We Say/What We Do: Sentiments and Acts (1973). The authors update and elaborate their previous theoretical and methodological critiques of the vast sociological literature on the relationship between what people say and what they do... Extremely thorough index and references. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty."

--S. G. Mestrovi'c, Choice

-A sequel to the landmark study, What We Say/What We Do: Sentiments and Acts (1973). The authors update and elaborate their previous theoretical and methodological critiques of the vast sociological literature on the relationship between what people say and what they do... Extremely thorough index and references. Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduate; graduate; faculty.-

--S. G. Mestrovi'c, Choice

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0202304450
• ISBN 13: 9780202304458
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 279