This book demonstrates the diversity of the interactionist perspective in social science, providing an overview of the developments in interactionist theory, methods and research. Thematically organised, it explores the history, contemporary state and possible future of interactionist research.

Part 1: Introduction; 1. Introduction; Part 2: Varieties of Interactionism; 2. Pragmatism and Interaction; 3. Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism and 21st-century Sociology; 4. Straussian Negotiated Order Theory c.1960-Present; 5. Recent Developments in the New Iowa School of Symbolic Interactionism; 6. Dramaturgical Frameworks and Interactionism; 7. Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis: The Other Interactionism; Part 3: Self, Identity, and Emotions; 8. Click, Validate, and Reply: Three Paradoxes of the Terminal Self; 9. Animal Selfhood; 10. The Self and the Supernatural; 11. The (Un)Healthy Body and the Self; 12. Identity and Racialisation; 13. Symbolic Interaction beyond Binaries; 14. Culture and Emotion: Interactionist Perspectives; Part 4: Social Organisation; 15. Organizations and Institutions; 16. Symbolic Interactionism, Social Structure, and Social Change: Historical Debates and Contemporary Challenges; 17. Mental Health and Symbolic Interactionism: Untapped Opportunities; 18. Handling Video of [Police] Violence: Theoretical versus Practical Analyses; 19. Space, Mobility, and Interaction; 20. Nature and the Environment in Interaction; 21. The Social Organization of Time; 22. Collective Memory; Part 5: Interactionism, Media and the Internet; 23. Media Logic, Fear, and the Construction of Terrorism; 24. Public Fear and the Media; 25. Policing and Social Media; 26. Interactionism and Online Identity: How Has Interactionism Contributed to Understandings of Online Identity?; 27. Physical Co-presence and Distinctive Features of Online Interactions; 28. Happy Birthday Michael Jackson: Dead Celebrity and Online Interaction 29. Multi-Player Online Gaming; Part 6: New Developments in Methods 30. Situational Analysis as Critical Pragmatist Interactionism; 31. Video in Interactionist Research; 32. Digital Naturalism: Ethnography in Networked Worlds; 33. Ethics in Symbolic Interactionist Research; Part 7: Reimagining Interactionism; 34. Toward an Expanded Definition of Symbolic Interactionism; 35. Some Antinomies of Interactionism; 36. Interactionist Research: Extending Methods, Extending Fields; 37. The New Horizons of Symbolic Interactionism