Leslie Irvine

CONTEMPORARY THINKERS AND TOPICS
IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM

Leslie Irvine

Leslie Irvine received her PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1997. Her areas of study are primarily the social construction of identity and the self, and how people put together meaningful lives. Her first book, Codependent Forevermore (University of Chicago Press, 1999), examined how people make their lives livable again after the breakup of a committed relationship by studying the Twelve-Step group, Codependents Anonymous. In this study, Irvine collected the accounts of the group members to study how they constructed their stories and sense of selfhood while simultaneously becoming the characters in the stories that they told. Her other research areas include gender, the sociology of emotions, and social psychology. Her current research is on the role of companion animals in the creation of identity, which seeks to explain how animals possess a version of selfhood that differs in degree but not in kind from the human experience. In 1997, Irvine received The Herbert Blumer Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, for her work "Story-driven: Autobiographical Occasions and the Case for the Narrative Study of the Self."

Recent Publications:

Irvine, Leslie. 2000. "Even Better Than the Real Thing: Narratives of the Self in Codependency." Qualitative Sociology 23:9-28.

Irvine, Leslie. 1999. Codependent Forevermore: The Invention of Self in a Twelve Step Program. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Irvine, Leslie. 1998. "Organizational Ethics and Fieldwork Realities: Negotiating Ethical Boundaries in Codependents Anonymous." Doing Ethnographic Research. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage 167-183

Irvine, Leslie. 1997. "Reconsidering the American Emotional Culture: Codependency and Emotion Management." Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences 10:345-359.

Irvine, Leslie. 1997. "A 'Consensual' Relationship." Sexual Harassment on Campus: A Guide for Administrators, Faculty, and Students. Needham Heights MA: Allyn & Bacon 234-247

Irvine, Leslie. 1995. "Codependency and Recovery: Gender, Self, and Emotions in Popular Self-Help." Symbolic Interaction 18:145-163.


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CONTEMPORARY THINKERS AND TOPICS IN SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM Leslie Irvine Leslie Irvine received her PhD in Sociology from the State University of New York at Stony Brook in 1997. Her areas of study are primarily the social construction of identity and the self, and how people put together meaningful lives. Her first book, Codependent Forevermore (University of Chicago Press, 1999), examined how people make their lives livable again after the breakup of a committed relationship by studying the Twelve-Step group, Codependents Anonymous. In this study, Irvine collected the accounts of the group members to study how they constructed their stories and sense of selfhood while simultaneously becoming the characters in the stories that they told. Her other research areas include gender, the sociology of emotions, and social psychology. Her current research is on the role of companion animals in the creation of identity, which seeks to explain how animals possess a version of selfhood that differs in degree but not in kind from the human experience. In 1997, Irvine received The Herbert Blumer Award from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction, for her work "Story-driven: Autobiographical Occasions and the Case for the Narrative Study of the Self." Recent Publications: Irvine, Leslie. 2000. "Even Better Than the Real Thing: Narratives of the Self in Codependency." Qualitative Sociology 23:9-28. Irvine, Leslie. 1999. Codependent Forevermore: The Invention of Self in a Twelve Step Program. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Irvine, Leslie. 1998. "Organizational Ethics and Fieldwork Realities: Negotiating Ethical Boundaries in Codependents Anonymous." Doing Ethnographic Research. Thousand Oaks CA: Sage 167-183 Irvine, Leslie. 1997. "Reconsidering the American Emotional Culture: Codependency and Emotion Management." Innovation: The European Journal of Social Sciences 10:345-359. Irvine, Leslie. 1997. "A 'Consensual' Relationship." Sexual Harassment on Campus: A Guide for Administrators, Faculty, and Students. Needham Heights MA: Allyn & Bacon 234-247 Irvine, Leslie. 1995. "Codependency and Recovery: Gender, Self, and Emotions in Popular Self-Help." Symbolic Interaction 18:145-163.