Responding to a fusillade of criticism in the 1970s, interactionists made numerous studies to accentuate the structural elements of constraint. This reconstruction of symbolic interactionism (SI) has led to some convergences with the British School of Cultural Studies (BSCS). A selected group of SI studies are reviewed under the rubrics of negotiated order, master institutions, structural categories of gender and race, and power and ideology. Throughout, the article argues that SI's concern with institutions. structure, and power and ideology has some similarities with BSCS but differences are fundamental. Even though its reconstruction remains incomplete, especially in an adequate account of social structure, SI is now making a concerted effort to diminish the astructural bias by articulating macrosociological links between communication and community.

In the latter part of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century, Friedrich Nietzsche formulated, and Max Scheler further developed, the concept of ressentiment. Nietzsche linked this emotion with the rise of Christian morality, while Scheler linked it primarily with the formation of the bourgeois ethos in Western Europe. The present paper endeavors to show similarities and differences between the emotion thus designated and the more commonly recognized emotion of resentment. Moreover, conceptual analysis of these emotions necessarily leads to consideration of the social situations likely to give rise to each, as well as their likely outcomes. This latter discussion strongly suggests a needed modification of Nietzsche's and Scheler's conceptualization of ressentiment.A voluminous literature, chiefly by psychologists and philosophers, 1 deals with the closely related emotional experiences of resentment and ressentiment. However, very little has been written about the commonalities and divergences between these two terms. Given certain important differences in their interpersonal and societal implications, it is worthwhile to examine the emotions typically designated by the terms. We shall begin such an examination by surveying conceptions of the nature of resentment and of ressentiment, delineating the similarities and differences between them. We shall then consider the social contexts within which each of them is considered likely to arise. Finally, we shall discuss views of the likely social consequences of the occurrence of each, in the course of which we suggest a modification of classic views of ressentiment.Although this paper is basically an effort at conceptual clarification, we also present some supplementary empirical data. Consisting of 84 personal experience narratives written by students in sociology classes, these essays are not used inductively to derive generalizations, but illustratively to help elucidate various ideas. Students were asked to write a description of ''a brief or long-term situation in which you have felt resentment against someone or something.'' In their description, students were to indicate ''(a) What you resented, (b) Why you felt resentment, (c) How long you felt resentful, (d) Other people in the same situation who felt resentful, and (e) What you did, if anything, to express your resentment.'' The age and gender of each narrator were also requested. The resultant essays, expectably, chiefly relate to problems arising out of relations

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