Demarginalizing Symbolic Interactionism: A Comment on “Interactionism's Place”

Ulmer, Jeffery T.

doi:10.1525/si.2003.26.1.19

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“…These variables and their effects discussed in this paper should be viewed as markers for college students' interpretation and interaction processes (Ulmer 2023). Individuals and joint actors in flirtatious exchanges exercise agency and the variables such as emoji are used to represent them (Ulmer 2003; Ulmer and Wilson 2003).…”

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The Power of a 😉: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters

Groggel

2023

Symbolic Interaction

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Digital technology has long provided new ways of initiating romantic relationships as people communicate through text messages, social media, and dating applications. Emojis have been widely adopted as a means of conveying nonverbal cues in digital communication. However, what role do platform‐provided social cues, such as emojis, play in fostering or impeding clear communication and shared romantic expectations from a flirtatious text message conversation? In this study, 713 college students were randomly assigned to read a Snapchat conversation with or without emojis and, they were subsequently asked to infer the characters' thoughts and feelings, clarity of the characters' intentions, and indicate their own discomfort with receiving a similar Snapchat message. The results showed that emojis increase the clarity of the main character's intentions. Moreover, the participants' cognitive efforts, the extent to which they were emotionally affected by the conversation, and the presence of emojis reduced comfort level with receiving a similar Snapchat message. These findings suggest that emojis provide clarity to romantic conversations, which can amplify the interpersonal discomfort of receiving text‐based sexual overtures.

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The Power of a 😉: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters

Groggel

2023

Symbolic Interaction

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Influence and canonical supremacy: An analysis of how George Herbert Mead demoted Charles Horton Cooley in the sociological canon

Jacobs

2009

J History Behavioral Science

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This analysis assesses the factors underlying Charles Horton Cooley's place in the sociological canon as they relate to George Herbert Mead's puzzling diatribe-echoed in secondary accounts-against Cooley's social psychology and view of the self published scarcely a year after his death. The illocutionary act of publishing his critique stands as an effort to project the image of Mead's intellectual self and enhance his standing among sociologists within and outside the orbit of the University of Chicago. It expressed Mead's ambivalence toward his precursor Cooley, whose influence he never fully acknowledged. In addition, it typifies the contending fractal distinctions of the scientifically discursive versus literary styles of Mead and Cooley, who both founded the interpretive sociological tradition. The contrasting styles and attitudes toward writing of the two figures are discussed, and their implications for the problems of scale that have stymied the symbolic interactionist tradition are explored.

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Lonnie Athens revisited: The social construction of violence

Glasner

2013

Aggression and Violent Behavior

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Demarginalizing Symbolic Interactionism: A Comment on “Interactionism's Place”

Cited by 8 publications

References 70 publications

The Power of a 😉: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters

The Power of a 😉: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters

Influence and canonical supremacy: An analysis of how George Herbert Mead demoted Charles Horton Cooley in the sociological canon

Lonnie Athens revisited: The social construction of violence

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