This essay examines the sociological contributions to anthrozoology, focusing on research from the United States that employs a symbolic interactionist perspective. In particular, the work of Arluke and Sanders highlights the importance of understanding the meanings that animals hold for people. Using a selective review of their research, this essay outlines how a focus on understanding meaning...

This paper describes and illustrates a symbolic interactionist approach to critical ethnographic research in organizations. Aneclectic approach to interpretive sociology for management accounting researchers is developed and explicated. Also, an integrated interpretive perspective is described for the study of issues of power and ideology. The method offers the potential for new and additional ...

In symbolic interaction, a traditional yet unfortunate and unnecessary distinction has been made between basic and applied research. The argument has been made that basic research is intended to generate new knowledge, whereas applied research is intended to apply knowledge to the solution of practical (social and organizational) problems. I will argue that the distinction between basic and app...

This paper contributes trace semantics and a temporal trace language to provide a grounding and formalisation of the dynamics of mental states in relation to the dynamics of the interaction with the external world. The approach provides a foundation for the dynamical and interactionist perspective on cognitive phenomena.

New system design and evaluation methodologies are being developed to address social, organizational, political, cultural, and other nontechnological issues in information systems. This paper presents a social interactionist framework for researching these kinds of organizational issues. The framework is influenced by theoretical models of organizational change, user resistance, adoption and us...