Doing Modernity: Studies in Critical Interactionism

  Interactionist Studies of Work (REVISED):  Theory, Method and Empirical Studies Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D . Interactionist Approaches to Work:   Theory, Method, and Empirical Studies   Wayne Martin Mellinger, Ph.D . Introduction to Interactionist Workplace Studies The study of work has undergone a profound transformation over the past century, moving from abstract structural analyses of labor markets and organizational hierarchies to detailed, practice-oriented investigations of what people actually do when they work. This transformation has been driven largely by scholars working within various interactionist traditions—theoretical and methodological approaches that share a fundamental commitment to understanding social life through the lens of meaning-making, interaction, and situated practice. Rather than treating work as a variable to be measured or an institutional form to be mapped, interactionist approaches insist on examining work as it is actual...