Dimensions of Association in Collective Behavior Episodes

Couch, Carl J.

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“…In one of his last major works Couch (1989) laid out the structure of social processes and social relationships. Implicit in this work is the notion that certain social relationships and processes are "healthier" than others.…”

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“…Those students who have become academics continued to employ a pragmatic approach to symbolic interaction, while others have adopted similar approaches such as identity theory as presented by Peter Burke. Perhaps the most promising future lies in applied areas in which videorecorded interaction is closely analyzed (Couch 1987). Similarly, the TST continues to be used both for theoretical purposes in developing self-theory through self-disclosure and for practical uses in identifying the sociological basis of psychological problems (Grace and Kramer 2002).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…By the early 1960s the TST and other paper and pencil tests were no longer central methods of study (Buban 1986). With Kuhn's untimely death in 1963, the Iowa School began to shift from the systematic study of the self to the systematic study of interaction processes and the dimensions of association in various forms of social relationships (Couch 1970). The guiding principles of this New Iowa School of Interaction remain committed to pragmatism, empirical science, the sociological imagination, and the systematic study of social life.…”

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Toward a Theory of Interaction: The Iowa School

Miller

2011

Symbolic Interaction

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The Iowa School of Symbolic Interaction was founded with the intent to build a science of interaction, self, and mind. Early studies focused on data generated by the Twenty Statements Test and the subsequent development of self theory. In the late 1960s a small‐groups laboratory was constructed. With this lab and the development of video‐recording technology, researchers at Iowa were able to analyze various interaction processes. The video recordings of interaction provided researchable data. With these data, researchers produced precise analytic descriptions of interaction processes and forms. From these descriptions interactional concepts were developed primarily through a grounded theoretical approach. Recently, Iowa School symbolic interaction has moved out of the laboratory and into the field with some theoretical and practical advances.

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2011

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“…Copyright © 2008 ACM 978-1-59593-952-4/08/09…$5.00. situations [5], that the interpersonal distance two individuals keep tells something about their relationship (e.g., [1,2]), and that people can generally guess who is the leader in a group, based on their relative position in space [13]. Interpersonal distance is thus meaningful on several scales and is related to familiarity, affinity, and interaction.…”

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IJsselsteijn

2008

Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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Recent ethnomethodological work in context and location awareness has indicated that location cues hold many socially meaningful cues for interaction. Location-aware technologies are therefore expected to bring about a shift in social life. Yet little is known about underlying psychological effects and the role of specific design decisions. The present research aims to experimentally test some of these effects. In a laboratory experiment participants' location in a virtual game world was shared. The effects of location Cueing frequency and Cueing mode (explicit or inferred closeness) on affinity, social presence, awareness, and game experience were explored. Higher cue frequencies resulted in higher perceived challenge and flow experienced in the game. The data also showed trends of heightened awareness and more behavioural engagement. A trend towards more psychological involvement was found when cues explicitly communicated that players shared a location in the game.

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“…Those experiences. stimulated me to develop a conceptual scheme that characterized dimensions of social acts (Couch 1970;) and I used that scheme to structure my observations of social acts. But there was so much clutter associated with social acts observed in the field that I was overwhelmed by my observations.…”

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Presidential Address LET US REKINDLE THE PASSION BY CONSTRUCTING A ROBUST SCIENCE OF THE SOCIAL*

Couch¹

1994

Sociological Quarterly

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Many have questioned the viability of sociology. Enrollments in sociology classes have declined and a few colleges and universities have abolished departments of sociology. Some of us suffer from a siege mentality and sociologists are fragmented. If the discipline is to reemerge as viable some changes will have to occur. Some think that the changes necessary are external to the discipline, but it is my assessment that the changes critical for the revitalization of the discipline are internal-namely, changes that transform the discipline from an anemic science into a robust scientific enterprise that serves humanity.A few sociologists, such as some postmodernists, think that a science of the social is antithetical to the welfare of humanity; many others think that sociology is a science that does indeed contribute to the welfare of humanity. My assessment is that sociology is not much of a science and as yet it has not made significant contributions to humanity. Nonetheless, I remain convinced that a robust science of the social can be developed and that a science of the social can benefit humanity. In order for that to occur, we will have to analyze our research methods and develop techniques that are more appropriately aligned to our objects of investigation.' If we do not do that we will not be able to formulate abstract principles about social phenomena. And, if we cannot formulate abstract principles we will have little to offer to humanity.The cornerstones of robust sciences are abstract (generic) principles about phenomena that human beings can use to organize their experiences and actions in a variety of situations. Abstract principles are applicable in diverse situations and provide human beings with opportunities to undertake enterprises that are not possible for those unacquainted with the principles. For example, those knowledgeable about Gregor Mendel's principle on the transmission of genetic information can undertake enterprises that the uninformed cannot. Perhaps sociologists will one day formulate a comparable principle.One reason sociologists have formulated few abstract principles is that our research procedures have not been aligned with our objects of investigation nor have we been especially diligent in assessing our procedures in light of their potential for generating knowledge.

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Dimensions of Association in Collective Behavior Episodes

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Toward a Theory of Interaction: The Iowa School

Toward a Theory of Interaction: The Iowa School

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