Abstract
A symbolic interactionist approach to the study of social organizations is specified. Materials are drawn from an on‐going investigation of the American liquor industry, which is treated as a fragmented organization. The core actors, activities and interactional locales of the industry are identified. The problems of establishing a historical baseline for a case study are discussed, as are the problems of confronting archival data, locating informants, and establishing interactive linkages. The stages in writing a case history of an organization are presented and illustrated with examples drawn from the American liquor industry. 1979 Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 59-72 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Symbolic Interaction |
Volume | 2 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1979 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Nursing
- Social Psychology
- Education
- Communication
- Sociology and Political Science
- General Social Sciences