Social Organizations and Social Process

The essays gathered in this volume contain analyses based on the general action perspective of Chicago sociology and, in particular, on the contributions of Anselm L. Strauss, whose lengthy achievement this volume honors.

David R. Maines is Associate Professor of Sociology at Pennsylvania State University. His work has focused on articulating issues of social organization and social struc[1]ture from an interactionist perspective as weil as the fundamental relevance of temporality and communication for the development of social theory. He is the current Editor of the journal Symbolic lnteraction, and his recent books include Communication and Social Structure (with Carl Couch), Friendship in Context (with Helena Z. Lopata), and Jndustrialization as an Agent of Social Change: A Critical Analysis by Herbert Blumer (with Thomas J. Morrione). His current research focuses on the narrative aspects of social life