1st Edition

Communicating and Organizing in Context The Theory of Structurational Interaction

By Beth Bonniwell Haslett Copyright 2012
446 Pages
by Routledge

464 Pages
by Routledge

448 Pages
by Routledge

Communicating and Organizing in Context  integrates Giddens’ structuration theory with Goffman’s interaction order and develops a new theoretical base—the theory of structurational interaction—for the analysis of communicating and organizing. Both theorists emphasize tacit knowledge, social routines, context, social practices, materiality, frames, agency, and view communication as... Read more

Section I  Framing Communicating and Organizing  A Frame System for Communicating  A Frame System for Organizing  Connecting Communicating and Organizing  Section II  Giddens’ Structuration Theory  Giddens: Context, Agency and Interaction  Applying Giddens in Communicating and Organizing  Section III  Erving Goffman’s Interaction Order  Goffman’s Framing of Interaction  Goffman and Larger Social Institutions  Section IV  Toward a Theory of Structurational Interaction  Applying Structurational Interaction

Biography

Beth Bonniwell Haslett (Ph.D, University of Minnesota) is a professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Delaware. Her research and teaching interests span both organizational and interpersonal communication, and focus on issues of face, cross cultural communication and the social impact of information and communication technologies. Dr. Haslett has written three books (Communication: Strategic Action in Context; The Organizational Woman, with F.L. Geis and M. R. Carter, and Children Communicating, with W. Samter) and has published more than 30 articles and book chapters