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Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation
and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields
have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still
needs to engage with semiotic mediation. Written by a diverse group
of authors in interpretive sociology, this ambitious volume asks
what the relationship between meaning systems and action is, how we
can describe culture and which roles we assign to language, social
processes and cognition in a sociological context. Contributors
offer empirical research that not only outlines the conceptual
issues at stake, but also demonstrates ‘how to do things’ with
semiotics through case studies. Synthesizing a diverse and
fragmented landscape, this is a key reference work for scholars
interested in the connection between semiotics and sociology.
Semiotics provides key analytical tools to understand the creation
and reproduction of meaning in social life. Although some fields
have productively incorporated semiotic models, sociology still
needs to engage with semiosis mediation. Written by a diverse group
of authors in interpretive sociology, this ambitious volume asks
what the relationship between meaning systems and action is, how we
can describe culture and which roles we assign to language, social
processes and cognition in a sociological context. Contributors
offer empirical research that not only outlines the conceptual
issues at stake, but also demonstrates 'how to do things' with
semiotics through case studies. Synthesizing a diverse and
fragmented landscape, this is a key reference work for scholars
interested in the connection between semiotics and sociology.
What does it mean to be a gay man living in the suburbs? Do you
identify primarily as gay, or suburban, or some combination of the
two? For that matter, how does anyone decide what his or her
identity is?
In this first-ever ethnography of American gay suburbanites, Wayne
H. Brekhus demonstrates that who one is depends at least in part on
where and when one is. For many urban gay men, being homosexual is
key to their identity because they live, work, and socialize in
almost exclusively gay circles. Brekhus calls such men
"lifestylers" or peacocks. Chameleons or "commuters," on the other
hand, live and work in conventional suburban settings, but lead
intense gay social and sexual lives outside the suburbs. Centaurs,
meanwhile, or "integrators," mix typical suburban jobs and homes
with low-key gay social and sexual activities. In other words,
lifestylers see homosexuality as something you are, commuters as
something you do, and integrators as part of yourself.
Ultimately, Brekhus shows that lifestyling, commuting, and
integrating embody competing identity strategies that occur not
only among gay men but across a broad range of social categories.
What results, then, is an innovative work that will interest
sociologists, psychologists, anthropologists, and students of gay
culture.
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