1. Between Situations: Anticipation, Rhythms, and the Theory of Interaction.
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Tavory, Iddo
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CULTURE , *INTERACTIONISM (Philosophy) - Abstract
This article pushes interactionist sociology forward. It does so by drawing out the implications of a simple idea, that to understand the situation--the mise en scene of interactionist theory--we must understand it in relation not only to past-induced habits of thought and action but to future situations anticipated in interaction. Focusing especially on the rhythmic nature of situations, the paper then argues that such a recalibration both unsettles core tenets of interactionism and helps solve some problems in the sociology of culture. As an illustration, it focuses on two such puzzles--the place of disruption in interaction and the relationship between the notion of "boundaries" and of "distinctions" in the sociology of culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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