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Interactionist Perspectives in Social Psychology

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The core tradition of symbolic interactionism is presented, including its key concepts, and the history of symbolic interactionism is reviewed, from its beginnings in the works of Adam Smith to those of Erving Goffman and beyond. The special theories and methodologies that comprise several of its leading variants (such as the process, structural, dramaturgical, and postmodern traditions) are considered. The chapter concludes with a consideration of future developments in symbolic interactionism.

This chapter reviews developments in symbolic interactionism, a relatively ancient framework (or perspective) dating back some 250 years. The initiators, early contributors, and current users share (in important degree) elements of that perspective; they also differ significantly in the ways they interpret the propositions that together constitute that framework.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This school of thought is usually reckoned to include, at minimum and in alphabetical order, Adam Ferguson, David Hume, Frances Hutcheson, Lord Kames, Lord Monboddo, Thomas Reid, Adam Smith, and Dugald Stewart (Schneider, 1967). The social context of their work is discussed in Herman (2001).

  2. 2.

    Smi|th, 1759, p. 260.

  3. 3.

    Smith, 1790 (6th ed.), p. 131. This addition was already put forth in Smith’s letter to

    Gilbert Elliot (Smith, 1987, p. 51).

  4. 4.

    Smith, 1759, p. 254.

  5. 5.

    James, 1890, p. 179.

  6. 6.

    Cooley, 1902, pp. 184–185.

  7. 7.

    Cooley, 1909, p. 30.

  8. 8.

    Park, 1927, p. 738.

  9. 9.

    Thomas & Thomas, 1928, p. 572.

  10. 10.

    The magnitude of that stature is difficult to exaggerate when it had already produced such major SI contributors as Willard Waller (1938), Robert E. Faris (1950), and Leonard Cottrell (1950).

  11. 11.

    G. McCall & Simmons, 1966, pp. 60–61.

  12. 12.

    Sterelny, 2003, p. 172.

  13. 13.

    Turner, 1962, p. 24.

  14. 14.

    Stryker & Vryan, 2003, p. 25.

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McCall, G.J. (2013). Interactionist Perspectives in Social Psychology. In: DeLamater, J., Ward, A. (eds) Handbook of Social Psychology. Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6772-0_1

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