The downtown department store as a social force

Hutter, Mark

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“…Many of these students regard the past as a process in which the anchoring of self with others in specific social encounters is the microfoundation of a social order in complex urban environments (Goffrnan 1971, pp. 190-191;Hutter 1987;Lofland 1973;Wiseman, 1979). In this vein, the past is represented as a significant symbol (e.g., a traditional landmark, way of life, expression, or edifice) that represents the multiplicity and density of routine social encounters.…”

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The Nature of Social Pasts and Their Use as Foundations for Situated Action

Katovich

Couch²

1992

Symbolic Interaction

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In this paper social pasts are considered to be foundations of everyday interpersonal life, including everyday situated action. We distinguish social pasts from culture by noting that the former involves recognition of specific joint acts and social placements while the latter involves recognition of ties to acts and placements in general. We further distinguish shared pasts–which refer to specific and previous joint acts or social placements that interactors constructed together–from common pasts–which refer to specific and previous joint acts or social placements that interactors constructed with others. We assess the importance of using either common or shared pasts in the course of completing and simplifying complex and everyday transactions so as to create an appearance of routine‐ness in relation to constructing these acts.

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The Nature of Social Pasts and Their Use as Foundations for Situated Action

Katovich

Couch²

1992

Symbolic Interaction

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“…How does consumption function as a means for social interaction, creating meaning, and structuring everyday city living? This last question falls well outside both the neo-Marxian and postmodern agendas, and would be dismissed as overly naïve or conservative despite findings that suggest that consumer activities can function as important "community-building" practices (Stone, 1954;Hutter, 1987;Katovich and Reese, 1987;Monti, 1999;Simpson, 2000;Borer and Monti, 2006). Everyday people, and not just the elite power brokers, are far more active in the production and consumption of cultural ideas and amenities than the Urban Political Economy approach allows (Lloyd, 2002: 519).…”

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“…Other recent studies have pointed to the importance of leisure sites for urban identity construction, while acknowledging that the same process of internalization can occur for owners and employees as well. And the types of places that people adopt and adapt as significant identity markers can range from the mundane, like a department store, coffee shop, cafeteria, bar, or sidewalk (e.g., Hutter, 1987;Oldenburg, 1989;Duneier, 1992;Milligan, 1998;Simpson, 2000;Borer and Monti, 2006), to the spectacular, legendary, or sacred (e.g., Smith, 1999;Bird, 2002;Borer, 2006).…”

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The Location of Culture: The Urban Culturalist Perspective

2006

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The majority of research in urban sociology tends to favor the study of urbanization, the development and growth of cities, over urbanism, the way of life in cities. Here, I identify a strand of urban sociology that explicitly focuses on the latter and introduce a theoretical framework for investigating culturally significant urban places. The urban culturalist perspective consists of six domains of research:1) images and representations of the city; 2) urban community and civic culture; 3) place-based myths, narratives, and collective memories; 4) sentiment and meaning of and for places; 5) urban identities and lifestyles; and 6) interaction places and practices. These distinct but related domains collectively provide a framework for addressing culture-place relationships in cities by offering a clear window into the ways that pepole use places as part of their cultural repertoires and how those repertoires can affect a city's social and physical environment.

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“…Other arenas, as suggested by accomplished research by interactionists, might include: contemporary and historical patterns of interaction in urban public space (e.g., Cahill, 1990;Gardner, 1990;Lofland, 1985Lofland, /1973; the social construction of historic urban rituals (e.g., Cross. 1986); and the emergence and decline of urban interactional sefflngs (e.g., Hutter, 1987 community preferences, they say that they prefer to live in a small town or the countryside. But more significantly, they also think oftheir community as a small town rather than a suburb, and they typically enjoy living in "their town."…”

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History, The City and The Interactionist: Anselm Strauss, City Imagery, and Urban Sociology

Lofland

1991

Symbolic Interaction

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My goal in what follows is to explore some of the questions, analyses and insights that a scholar, equipped with a sense of history and the sensitivity of an interactionist, might bring to the study of the city. But before I begin that task, I want to spend a little time laying some ground‐ work. I want to introduce my readers to (or remind them of) two snippets of sociological history: the first snippet has to do with the place‐more accurately, the lack of place‐of the interactionist perspective within the field of urban sociology; the second deals with the unique contributions of one of the few interactionists to work urban sociology: Anselm Strauss.

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The downtown department store as a social force

Cited by 5 publications

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The Nature of Social Pasts and Their Use as Foundations for Situated Action

The Nature of Social Pasts and Their Use as Foundations for Situated Action

The Location of Culture: The Urban Culturalist Perspective

History, The City and The Interactionist: Anselm Strauss, City Imagery, and Urban Sociology

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