TY - JOUR
AU - Maines, D R
AB -  David R. Maines Rockefeller University Hospital, New York, NY 10021 Through communication processes, people transform themselves and their environ­ ments and then respond to those transformations (Stone & Farberman 1970:v). This paraphrase, for the most part, defines the central thrust of the perspective of sym­ bolic interactionism. It easily subsumes those topics traditionally associated with the perspective, such as interaction processes, socialization, the establishment and main­ tenance of meaning, systematic symbolization, as well as social roles, identities, and the reflexive self, which are products of human association. For the purposes of this review, however, the important point is that it does not exclude or deny the existence of phenomena such as social class, bureaucracy, social institutions, power struc­ tures, international relations, or social stratification, which are usually included in considerations of social organization and social structure. Nor has the perspective ever completely ignored social structural considerations, although it is probably fair to say that symbolic interactionists have not devoted the attention to those matters that functionalists or conflict theorists have. It has been a relatively benign neglect, however, pertaining more to the selection of topics and research problems rather than to the explanatory power of the perspective itself. 
TI - Social Organization and Social Structure in Symbolic Interactionist Thought
JF - Annual Review of Sociology
DO - 10.1146/annurev.so.03.080177.001315
DA - 1977-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/annual-reviews/social-organization-and-social-structure-in-symbolic-interactionist-AlCX0u9O0B
SP - 235
EP - 259
VL - 3
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -