Going Bad and Staying Bad: Crystallizing Dramatic Self Change

Halldorsson, Vidar; Katovich, Michael A.

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“…According to literature, even ordinary experiences become defined by turning points such as these (refer to Ebaugh 1988; Strauss 1959). Profound personal shifts can alter behaviors, thoughts, and performances (Bruner and Weisser 1991; DeGloma 2014) and can result in “changing selves” (Halldorsson and Katovich 2019). My crisis-coping led me to a new role and a new community.…”

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On Spiritualist Workers: Healing and Divining through Tarot and the Metaphysical

Lavin

2020

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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In the following article, I explore how tarot card readers (and other spiritualist workers) “control the future” to heal and empower their clients, emphasizing the porous roles of therapy and advocacy that assorted “psychics” perform. I examine how these workers navigate interactional trials, including misassigned identity, ethical challenges, and interactional boundaries in readings at psychic fairs and in private practice. Tarot card readers and other “psychics” are independent contractors and (self)help workers that are cast aside from both science and religion, labor outside of conventional credentialing systems, and are reputationally marginalized. I argue that this cultural and structural marginalization allows these “libertarian spiritualist” workers to construct amalgamate identities, exercising role flexibility as readers and querents, and healers and survivors.

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On Spiritualist Workers: Healing and Divining through Tarot and the Metaphysical

Lavin

2020

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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What Is Going On? An Analysis of the Interaction Order

Halldorsson

2022

QSR

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Seeing sociology visually adds a sense of realness to the viewer compared to only reading sociological texts. In this paper, I aim to provide an example of how a single scene from a feature film can be utilized as a practical and meaningful means to analyze a social situation and to help students of sociology to grasp key features of Goffman’s theory of interaction order. More precisely, the main aims of the paper are 1) to illustrate Goffman’s theory of the interaction order by identifying acts of disruption and alignment in interaction through a film clip; and 2) to attempt to analyze, in a Goffmanian sense, what is really going on in the situational interaction. The scene is from the 2013 American movie August: Osage County and follows a dinner of immediate family in the wake of the funeral of the hostess’s late husband. The normative and civilized interaction of the meal is, however, jeopardized by the hostile and provocative mood of the hostess, as she repeatedly disrupts the interaction order with attempts to mock and/or uncover the hidden and vulnerable truths of the immediate members of her family, exemplifying her power status in the particular situation. The dinner guests, however, try to overlook and resist the provocation of the hostess and stick to their predetermined roles to save and sustain their idealized selves (their faces) and the interaction order (the faces of others), In doing so they, on the one hand, discard the uncomfortable truths acclaimed by the hostess and, on the other, explain the hostess’s provocative actions in terms of their claim that she is unwell and in need of medical attention. Thus, the attacked dinner guests in the scene align more alliance to the interaction order than to truth itself.

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The Symbolic Interactionism Theory: A Systematic Literature Review of Current Research

Rahman

Mukhtar

2021

IJMTSS

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The objective of this paper is to explore the current trend of using symbolic interactionism as an underpinning theory by revealing the gaps in the elements of the theory, methodology, and suggesting the direction for future research. This communication theory is unique because of the elements; self, society, and the environment. Normally, symbolic interactionism theory (SIT) has been used in identity and healthcare studies. While studies using this theory in entrepreneurship are still lacking. It is shown that this study mostly focuses on the sociology perspective compared to the social-psychology perspective. Therefore, this paper was adopted with a thematic analysis of 116 articles using symbolic interactionism as a theoretical underpinning. The findings show previous research that utilised symbolic interactionism in entrepreneurship is still less. This study found that previous studies have focused more on "Looking-Glass-self" by Goffman compared to the overall perspective of self-society-environment and lack of studies focusing on the entrepreneurship field. This systematic review is expected to give understanding and knowledge to readers about SIT, theory gaps through the elements, and directions for future research to consider using symbolic interactionism as a theoretical underpinning in the entrepreneurial phenomenon.

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Going Bad and Staying Bad: Crystallizing Dramatic Self Change

Cited by 3 publications

References 46 publications

On Spiritualist Workers: Healing and Divining through Tarot and the Metaphysical

On Spiritualist Workers: Healing and Divining through Tarot and the Metaphysical

What Is Going On? An Analysis of the Interaction Order

The Symbolic Interactionism Theory: A Systematic Literature Review of Current Research

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