1st Edition

Meanings and Situations (RLE Social Theory)

By Arthur Brittan Copyright 2015
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

Meanings and Situations is an account of the ‘interactionist’ position. It is a committed account in the sense that it sees the central concerns of social psychology and sociology as being located in an interpretative and humanistic framework. At the same time, it argues for a bio-social image of man which does not do violence to the way in which men in interaction continuously construct and... Read more

Part 1. Interaction as Sociological Grammar  1. The Conception of Interaction  2. Non-symbolic Interaction  3. Emotional Identification and the Grammar of Sociation  4. The Grammar of Symbolic Sociation (1) Acts, Scenes and Agents  5. The Grammar of Symbolic Sociation (2) Purposes and Agencies  Part 2. Models of Interaction 6. Interaction as Drama  7. Interaction as Game and Exchange  8. Interaction as the Negotiation of Identity  Part 3. Conclusion  9. Interaction, Selves and Social Fragmentation  10. Reservations

Biography

Arthur Brittan