April 30, 2019 Qualitative Sociology Review Volume XV Issue 2 Expanding Social Interactionist Horizons: Bridging Disciplines and Approaches by Andrew Blasko and Vessela Misheva Available Online www.qualitativesociologyreview.org Qualitative Qualitative Sociology QSR Review Sociology ©2019 QSR • ISSN: 1733-8077 Review EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Krzysztof T. Konecki, University of Lodz EXECUTIVE EDITORS Łukasz T. Marciniak, University of Lodz Volume XV Magdalena Wojciechowska, University of Lodz Issue 2 ASSOCIATE EDITORS Leon Anderson, Utah State University, USA Dominika Byczkowska-Owczarek, University of Lodz Anna Kacperczyk, University of Lodz Expanding Social Interactionist Thaddeus Müller, Lancaster University Robert Prus, University of Waterloo, Canada Horizons: Bridging APPROVING EDITORS Steven Kleinknecht, Disciplines and Approaches Brescia University College Geraldine Leydon, Southampton University Antony J. 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Waskul Gary Alan Fine Elena Neiterman Shalva Weil Silvia Gherardi Peter Nugus Fred Wester Barney Glaser Tony O’Connor Ingrid Westlund Giampietro Gobo Sandi Michele de Oliveira Patrick Williams Jaber F. Gubrium Dorothy Pawluch Ruth Wodak Nina Veetnisha Gunnarsson Eleni Petraki Kiyomitsu Yui Qualitative Sociology Review • www.qualitativesociologyreview.org 3 CONTENTS Editorial Andrew Blasko, Vessela Misheva Introduction to the Special Issue Expanding Social Interactionist Horizons: Bridging Disciplines and Approaches 6 Articles Gary Alan Fine The Meso-World: Tiny Publics and Political Action 10 Yolanda Zografova Identities and Everyday Interethnic Relationships 26 Joseph A. Kotarba The Everyday Life Intersection of Translational Science and Music 44 Sam Hillyard The Rising Salience of the Absent: An Interactionist Analysis 56 Lisa Morriss, Greg Smith The Story of the Nearest Relative: Shifts in Footing in Dramaturgical Replayings 74 Jeffrey van den Scott, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott Imagined Engagements: Interpreting the Musical Relationship with the Canadian North 90 4 ©2019 QSR Volume XV Issue 2 Anna Kacperczyk Between Individual and Collective Actions: The Introduction of Innovations in the Social World of Climbing 106 Ilina Nacheva Self-Enhancement and Helping Behavior: Motivations of Volunteers in Registration and Reception Centers for Refugees in Bulgaria 132 Thaddeus Müller Cannabis, Moral Entrepreneurship, and Stigma: Conflicting Narratives on the 26 May 2016 Toronto Police Raid on Cannabis Shops 148 Zornitsa Totkova Symbolic Interactionism and the Perceived Style of Parenting 172 Diana Janušauskienė The Perception of Security Threats in Lithuania: A Human Security Perspective 186 Andrew Blasko An Essay on Self-Enslavement: The Pathology of Power and Control 200 Vessela Misheva Jane Addams and the Lost Paradigm of Sociology 216 Andrew Blasko Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria Vessela Misheva Uppsala University, Sweden Introduction to the Special Issue Expanding Social Interactionist Horizons: Bridging Disciplines and Approaches DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.2.01 Andrew Blasko is a Professor of Philosophy with Vessela Misheva is a Professor of Sociology at the De- a specialization in European Values and Culture whose partment of Sociology, Uppsala University. She has also served present institutional affiliation is the Institute of Popu- as a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Sködve, lation and Human Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sweden. She was awarded a Ph.D. in the philosophy of science Sciences. He defended his doctoral dissertation at Sofia from the Bulgaria Academy of Sciences, as well as a Ph.D. in so- University under the direction of Asen Davidov on the ciology from Uppsala University. Misheva has also specialized question of how Sartre’s conception of the progressive-re- in sociology and systems theory at Bielefeld University under gressive method, particularly as it is employed in the sec- the direction of Niklas Luhmann. From 1998 to 2006 she was ond volume of Critique de la raison dialectique, casts light a Vice-President of Research Committee 51 on Sociocybernetics on historical development as a process of totalization that and Systems Theory at the International Sociological Associa- does not have a totalizer. His publications have discussed tion (ISA) and served as a President of the Research Committee a range of theoretical and empirical questions arising 36 on Alienation theory and Research at the ISA between 2010 from the ongoing social and cultural changes that have and 2018. Her current research interests include the sociology taken place in Central and Eastern Europe during the last of peace, the sociology of knowledge, classical sociology, the three decades. He has also recently co-edited Jane Addams theory of self-conscious emotions, and the theory of self. Recent and the Spirit of Social Entrepreneurship (2018). Blasko cur- publications include Jane Addams and the Spirit of Social Entrepre- rently serves as a member of the board of the European neurship (co-edited) (2018), “Jane Addams and the Birth of Micro Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction and is Sec- Sociology as a Science and a Social Enterprise” (2018), “Guilt: retary-Treasurer of Research Committee 36 on Alienation What’s So Good about Feeling Bad about Yourself” (2018), and theory and Research at the International Sociological As- “Lost in Vicissitudes of Greatness and Decline: Charles Horton sociation. Cooley’s Unique Contribution to Sociology” (2018). email address: [email protected] email address: [email protected] 6 ©2019 QSR Volume XV Issue 2 Introduction to the Special Issue Expanding Social Interactionist Horizons: Bridging Disciplines and Approaches his volume of selected articles is intended to ence in Pisa (2010), followed by meetings in Kassel Tpresent topics and questions that were dis- (2011), Rotterdam (2012), Uppsala (2013), Aalborg cussed at the VIIth Annual Conference of the European (2014), and Salford (2015). Conferences were then Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction (EUSSSI), held in Lodz (2017) and in Lancaster (2018). Much which was held in Topola, Bulgaria, July 04-08 2016. as in previous years, the VIIth EUSSSI Conference The EUSSSI is a rather young scholarly society that brought together over 70 prominent scholars in will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2020. It emerged the fields of social psychology, sociology, symbolic from a conference organized by the University of interactionism, social work, and qualitative meth- Pisa in 2010 where, for the first time, efforts to cre- ods. This truly international event was attended by ate a permanent transatlantic interaction between scholars representing Bulgaria, Sweden, Germany, American and European scholars working in the Italy, Norway, Lithuania, Poland, the Czech Repub- symbolic interactionist tradition met with success. lic, Israel, the United States, the United