シンボリック相互行為論のコンテクスチュアルな読解に向けて : 予備的考察

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Symbolic Interactionism (SI) has been an influential social psychological perspective in American sociology since the 1950's. This approah focuses on the "social act" or "joint act" performed by human agency, with self-reflexive capacity, as the basic analytical unit. The basic points of view of SI derive from "The Chicago School of Sociology", which made a great contribution to establishing empirical social research methods by publishing many excellent urban ethnographies. It can be said that the advancement of SI was brought about as a result of efforts by the "Chicago Successors"- Herbert Blumer, Everett C. Hughes, Howard S. Decker, Anselm L. Strauss and others-to develop a distinctive analytical framework incorporating the implicit ethos of the Chicago Sociologists. On the other hand, however, a variety of criticisms have been made of the approach, which dispute SI as being atheoretical, unscientific, subjective, and astructual. The purpose of this paper is to propose an objection to those criticisms. The following discussion focuses on what "theory" means from the standpoint of SI, and presents a preliminary sketch of a contexual assessment of the works of Symbolic Interactionists for a full-fledged understanding and appreciation of its theoretical and methodological implications.
早稲田大学の論文
1994-03-25