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- Fine argues that the basic building blocks of society itself are forged within the boundaries of such small groups, the "tiny publics" necessary for a robust, functioning social order at all levels. Action, meaning, authority, inequality, organization, and institutions all have their roots in small groups.
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Jun 14, 2017 · Gary Alan Fine’s work highlights the constructed nature of social worlds by emphasizing the set of meanings through which social actors define such worlds and their limits. As we travel by, we shape the map in which they are located and through which we recognize ourselves.
- Chiara Bassetti, Roberta Sassatelli
- 2017
Jun 1, 2017 · Fine is perhaps the most prolific and versatile ethnographer in contemporary sociology. And a sociologist focused on interaction – both as a methodological and as an ontological element – must...
Nov 20, 2009 · The relationship between expressive culture—forms of talk and codes of feelings—and social structure has been the main focus of Fine’s empirical and theoretical work. His approach remains evidently linked to interaction, from which he refrains to detach and to which he tries to bring back discourse, or indeed people’s accounts as ...
- Roberta Sassatelli
- roberta.sassatelli@unimi.it
- 2010
Mar 3, 2014 · Gary Alan Fine is John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He received his PhD in social psychology in 1976 from the Department of Psychology and Social Relations at Harvard University and has taught at the University of Minnesota and the University of Georgia.
- Gary Alan Fine
- 2014
Based on over thirty-five years of Fine's own ethnographic research across an array of small groups, Tiny Publics presents a compelling new theory of the pivotal role of small groups in organizing social life. No social system can thrive without flourishing small groups.
- Gary Alan Fine
- 2012
Mar 24, 2023 · Book review: Gary Alan Fine and Bill Ellis, The Global Grapevine: Why Rumors of Terrorism, Immigration, and Trade Matter
Jan 1, 2021 · Tiny Publics and Social Worlds—Toward a Sociology of the Local. Gary Alan Fine in Conversation With Reiner Keller. Abstract: Gary Alan FINE is among the most prominent figures in contemporary...
