 It calls attention, first, to the fact that the essence of society lies in an ongoing process of action — not in a posited structure of relations. Without action, any structure of relations between people is meaningless. To be understood, a society...  Improvised Dialogues: Emergence and Creativity in Conversationby Robert Keith Sawyer - 2003 - 262 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Education - 1971 - 240 pages
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 | Herbert Blumer - Political Science - 1986 - 228 pages
...enables us to note several matters of distinct importance. It calls attention, first, to the fact that the essence of society lies in an ongoing process...action— not in a posited structure of relations. Without action, any structure of relations between people is meaningless. To be understood, a society... | |
 | Peter Hamilton - Philosophy - 1992 - 270 pages
...enables us to note several matters of distinct importance. It calls attention, first, to the fact that the essence of society lies in an ongoing process...action — not in a posited structure of relations. Without action, any structure of relations between people is meaningless. To be understood, a society... | |
 | Robert Prus, Robert C.. Prus - Social Science - 1996 - 332 pages
...For Blumer, as with Mead, the study of group life is the study of the ongoing production of action: The essence of society lies in an ongoing process of action— not in the posited structure of relations. Without action, any structure of relations between people is meaningless.... | |
 | Nathan Rousseau - Psychology - 2002 - 392 pages
...enables us to note several matters of distinct importance. It calls attention, first, to the fact that the essence of society lies in an ongoing process...action — not in a posited structure of relations. Without action, any structure of relations between people is meaningless. To be understood, a society... | |
 | R. Keith Sawyer - Philosophy - 2005 - 296 pages
...Paradigm (1962, 1966). Rather than structure, symbolic interactional processes are the fundamental units of social life: "[T]he essence of society lies in...in a posited structure of relations" (Blumer 1966, 541). Macrostructural forces never operate directly on individuals but are mediated through their interpretation... | |
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