Intro sociology.
Diverse scholarly perspectives: Structural functionalism, conflict, symbolic interactionism.
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December 20, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Intro sociology.
Diverse scholarly perspectives: Structural functionalism, conflict, symbolic interactionism.
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Diverse scholarly perspectives: Structural functionalism, conflict, symbolic interactionism.
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"The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and
Navigation of Social Asymmetries-in-Action:
An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Catherine L. Tam and Robin James Smith #sijournal #sociology #EMCA #SSSI #interactionism - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Navigation of Social Asymmetries-in-Action:
An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Catherine L. Tam and Robin James Smith #sijournal #sociology #EMCA #SSSI #interactionism - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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December 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM
"The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and
Navigation of Social Asymmetries-in-Action:
An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Catherine L. Tam and Robin James Smith #sijournal #sociology #EMCA #SSSI #interactionism - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Navigation of Social Asymmetries-in-Action:
An Introduction to the Special Issue" by Catherine L. Tam and Robin James Smith #sijournal #sociology #EMCA #SSSI #interactionism - onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, bell hooks, and Oliver Cromwell Cox will all either educate or temper your arguments. You should probably focus on structural functionalism, you’re likely well aware are symbolic interactionism and conflict theory is a bad fit for you right now.
March 12, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, bell hooks, and Oliver Cromwell Cox will all either educate or temper your arguments. You should probably focus on structural functionalism, you’re likely well aware are symbolic interactionism and conflict theory is a bad fit for you right now.
reading AI behavior papers and realizing this shit is just Goffman's symbolic interactionism
June 18, 2025 at 5:52 AM
reading AI behavior papers and realizing this shit is just Goffman's symbolic interactionism
Th<~re is working with beings who is actively localized by interactionism.
December 3, 2024 at 8:42 PM
Th<~re is working with beings who is actively localized by interactionism.
Perspectives like Symbolic Interactionism or Social Constructionism actually examine how individual actions, perceptions, and psychological experiences contribute to the maintenance or change of social systems. I encourage you to explore these theories. They may scratch some of that itch for you. 😊
December 11, 2024 at 2:54 AM
Perspectives like Symbolic Interactionism or Social Constructionism actually examine how individual actions, perceptions, and psychological experiences contribute to the maintenance or change of social systems. I encourage you to explore these theories. They may scratch some of that itch for you. 😊
Imagining my sociology colleagues in the future presenting Symbolic Interactionism to their 101 classes: “So, you see, this cartoon frog symbolized fascism, and these frog costumes symbolized anti-fascism…”
Things are happening at Portland's ICE facility tonight.
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
Read more of our protest coverage here: www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/1...
October 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
Imagining my sociology colleagues in the future presenting Symbolic Interactionism to their 101 classes: “So, you see, this cartoon frog symbolized fascism, and these frog costumes symbolized anti-fascism…”
Day 10, Methodology. I'm a qualitative girly through-and-through. Social Constructionist approach (specifically Symbolic Interactionism) then methodologically, participatory observations are my jam, and/or textual analysis using social semiotics.
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December 10, 2024 at 7:42 PM
Day 10, Methodology. I'm a qualitative girly through-and-through. Social Constructionist approach (specifically Symbolic Interactionism) then methodologically, participatory observations are my jam, and/or textual analysis using social semiotics.
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It's been speculated that this whole 'Raygun' phenomenon is a convenient, elaborate experiment in interactionism providing never-ending content for our academic to write about, so there's major self-interest for the 'brand' to exist and continue.
December 10, 2024 at 11:01 AM
It's been speculated that this whole 'Raygun' phenomenon is a convenient, elaborate experiment in interactionism providing never-ending content for our academic to write about, so there's major self-interest for the 'brand' to exist and continue.
What's the only good thing that came out from the University of Chicago and why was it Symbolic Interactionism?
September 29, 2023 at 5:25 AM
What's the only good thing that came out from the University of Chicago and why was it Symbolic Interactionism?
phys.org/news/2024-11...
This article highlights how many Americans believe that sports are inherently good, while ignoring the negatives. A study found that people's opinions varied based on factors such as economic position and how many children they have involved in sports. #interactionism
This article highlights how many Americans believe that sports are inherently good, while ignoring the negatives. A study found that people's opinions varied based on factors such as economic position and how many children they have involved in sports. #interactionism
Here's something Americans agree on: Sports build character—but the 'Great Sport Myth' may be problematic
In a polarized nation, there is one thing that nearly all Americans agree on, according to a recent study: Sports are good for us.
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September 19, 2025 at 11:14 PM
phys.org/news/2024-11...
This article highlights how many Americans believe that sports are inherently good, while ignoring the negatives. A study found that people's opinions varied based on factors such as economic position and how many children they have involved in sports. #interactionism
This article highlights how many Americans believe that sports are inherently good, while ignoring the negatives. A study found that people's opinions varied based on factors such as economic position and how many children they have involved in sports. #interactionism
Can I start beating on my “you can’t run a world on symbolic interactionism [essentially, vibes]” drum again? They think reality is formed by perception. We interact with reality VIA perception, they’re missing structural functionalism [social trust] and conflict theory.
April 4, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Can I start beating on my “you can’t run a world on symbolic interactionism [essentially, vibes]” drum again? They think reality is formed by perception. We interact with reality VIA perception, they’re missing structural functionalism [social trust] and conflict theory.
📃Scientific paper: Disentangling Resilience from Robustness: Contextual Dualism,
Interactionism, and Game-Theoretic P...
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
Interactionism, and Game-Theoretic P...
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August 31, 2024 at 11:33 AM
📃Scientific paper: Disentangling Resilience from Robustness: Contextual Dualism,
Interactionism, and Game-Theoretic P...
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
Interactionism, and Game-Theoretic P...
➡️ Continued on ES/IODE
Checks out.
September 20, 2023 at 3:48 PM
Checks out.
I think this is a great example of symbolic interactionism that I relate heavily to. Sometimes an event doesn’t sound appealing, but showing up anyways is important when others are expecting you. #UTcommtheory
September 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I think this is a great example of symbolic interactionism that I relate heavily to. Sometimes an event doesn’t sound appealing, but showing up anyways is important when others are expecting you. #UTcommtheory
The thing symbolic interactionism and New Criticism have in common, which is important to the context of this thread, is they both posit that culture and cultural commentary exist or can exist in a vacuum
Which is why they need the other theories to function, concrete reality exists!
Which is why they need the other theories to function, concrete reality exists!
It’s part of a whole propaganda campaign to push American established theories as the only theories because they are incredibly individualistic. You see it most often in literary analysis—“media doesn’t impact real life” (New Criticism) and cultural commentary (symbolic interactionism)
March 4, 2025 at 4:39 AM
The thing symbolic interactionism and New Criticism have in common, which is important to the context of this thread, is they both posit that culture and cultural commentary exist or can exist in a vacuum
Which is why they need the other theories to function, concrete reality exists!
Which is why they need the other theories to function, concrete reality exists!
I just found out that these are key areas of my research, according to a platform that tried to map them.
Always good to learn something about myself.
It's about time I started publishing some of my neuroscience stuff ...
Also, I should tell my wife I'm an expert in romance.
Always good to learn something about myself.
It's about time I started publishing some of my neuroscience stuff ...
Also, I should tell my wife I'm an expert in romance.
June 12, 2025 at 8:38 AM
I just found out that these are key areas of my research, according to a platform that tried to map them.
Always good to learn something about myself.
It's about time I started publishing some of my neuroscience stuff ...
Also, I should tell my wife I'm an expert in romance.
Always good to learn something about myself.
It's about time I started publishing some of my neuroscience stuff ...
Also, I should tell my wife I'm an expert in romance.
Yeah it’s a foreign concept but I wouldn’t say the discourse is always one way. A famous one is the thought process of Descartes of course where he goes on about interactionism. But you’re speaking more so on the epiphenomenalism of the mind-body problem. It’s a large spectrum!
October 20, 2024 at 2:43 PM
Yeah it’s a foreign concept but I wouldn’t say the discourse is always one way. A famous one is the thought process of Descartes of course where he goes on about interactionism. But you’re speaking more so on the epiphenomenalism of the mind-body problem. It’s a large spectrum!
I love sociology but I dislike how common misusing symbolic interactionism is online. It’s impossible to interpret everything via the way people communicate because concrete reality exists separate and apart from us.
Simultaneously I’m not sure people *know* they’re doing it.
Simultaneously I’m not sure people *know* they’re doing it.
January 11, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I love sociology but I dislike how common misusing symbolic interactionism is online. It’s impossible to interpret everything via the way people communicate because concrete reality exists separate and apart from us.
Simultaneously I’m not sure people *know* they’re doing it.
Simultaneously I’m not sure people *know* they’re doing it.
The way this is usually described is “symbolic interactionism cannot explain concrete consequences that happen outside one’s control”
Usually the example’s natural disasters but there are other cases. For example if someone slaps someone else, everyone can deny its abuse but the bruise still exists
Usually the example’s natural disasters but there are other cases. For example if someone slaps someone else, everyone can deny its abuse but the bruise still exists
January 29, 2025 at 9:05 PM
The way this is usually described is “symbolic interactionism cannot explain concrete consequences that happen outside one’s control”
Usually the example’s natural disasters but there are other cases. For example if someone slaps someone else, everyone can deny its abuse but the bruise still exists
Usually the example’s natural disasters but there are other cases. For example if someone slaps someone else, everyone can deny its abuse but the bruise still exists
The article I found is a biography of Billie Jean King, a very important figure in women's sports since the 1950s. She was an advocate for equal pay and equal opportunities in sports. The article uses both the Feminist and the Interactionism theories.
wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-t...
wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-t...
Life Story: Billie Jean King - Women & the American Story
The story of a tennis champion and advocate for gender equality.
wams.nyhistory.org
September 17, 2025 at 1:42 PM
The article I found is a biography of Billie Jean King, a very important figure in women's sports since the 1950s. She was an advocate for equal pay and equal opportunities in sports. The article uses both the Feminist and the Interactionism theories.
wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-t...
wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-t...
See Interest over time on Google Trends for Interactionism, behaviorism - United States, Past 5 years - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/1592402400?hl=en-US&tz=-120&date=today+5-y&geo=US&q=Interactionism,behaviorism&sni=3
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Google Trends
See interest over time on Google Trends for Interactionis...
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February 25, 2025 at 6:10 PM
See Interest over time on Google Trends for Interactionism, behaviorism - United States, Past 5 years - https://trends.google.com/trends/explore/TIMESERIES/1592402400?hl=en-US&tz=-120&date=today+5-y&geo=US&q=Interactionism,behaviorism&sni=3
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