 ... organizations, relations between institutions, differential authority arrangements, social codes, norms, values, and the like. And they are very important. But their importance does not lie in an alleged determination of action nor in an alleged existence...  Improvised Dialogues: Emergence and Creativity in Conversationby Robert Keith Sawyer - 2003 - 262 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Herbert Blumer - Political Science - 1986 - 228 pages
...determination of action nor in an alleged existence as parts of a self-operating societal system. Instead, they are important only as they enter into the process...definition out of which joint actions are formed. The manner and extent to which they enter may vary greatly from situation to situation, depending on... | |
 | Peter Hamilton - Philosophy - 1992 - 270 pages
...determination of action nor in an alleged existence as parts of a self-operating societal system. Instead, they are important only as they enter into the process of interpretation and definition outof which joint actions are formed. The manner and extent to which they enter may vary greatly from... | |
 | Gary Alan Fine - Social Science - 1995 - 444 pages
...positions, class relations, bureaucratic organizations, and other structural elements are significant "only as they enter into the process of interpretation...definition out of which joint actions are formed" (ibid., p. 75).8 Human beings have a self and, because they do, social action assumes a reflexive character.... | |
 | Nathan Rousseau - Psychology - 2002 - 392 pages
...determination of action nor in an alleged existence as parts of a self-operating societal system. Instead, they are important only as they enter into the process...definition out of which joint actions are formed. The manner and extent to which they enter may vary greatly from situation to situation, depending on... | |
 | Margaret Voysey Paun - Social Science - 2006 - 264 pages
...is to be made, then one must examine in what sense such structures 'exist'. Blumer says that this is 'only as they enter into the process of interpretation...definition, out of which joint actions are formed' (1965, p. 543). Rules, norms and values are 'reference points' or, as Cicourel (1970) argues, at the... | |
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