Interactionism: Meaning and Self as Process

Tavory, Iddo

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“…Indeed, predating Goffman’s highlight on these links among face, mask, and self, Mauss earlier conceptualizes the problem of the self as “masquerade” [ 30 ]. According to the Maussian perspective, the mask in itself is the self and individuality which can be properly formulated as a whole “course” [ 30 : 22] or a social process of self-making [ 83 : 87 , 84 ] that involves individual and supra-individual entities (i.e., masquerade the social drama). That is why the mask is often found to be so dysfunctional, unnatural, and exaggerated (i.e., ‘symbolic’ vs. instrumental in the Parsonian sense [ 25 ]) at the same time as it functionally fits the face of wearers and materially reflects the surrounding nature (e.g., feathers of birds and tongues of fish) [ 38 ].…”

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Mask sociology as a way of action theory: Voices of the face mask among social individuals in the COVID-19 masquerade in South Korea

Shim

2023

PLoS ONE

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South Koreans are susceptible to the medical face mask against the COVID-19 pandemic. Meanwhile, their mask practices are intriguingly laden with contradictions and inconsistencies. This study accounts for this puzzle by expanding two sociological frontiers: the sociology of action (i.e., action theory of agency and individuality) and the sociology of the mask. Drawing on action theory, it stresses that contradictions and inconsistencies reveal the nature of individuals as social individuals and develops a typology of social individuals during the current pandemic (i.e., atomists, collectivists, and dualists). For mask sociology, it amplifies that any mask practices are conceptualized as a masquerade involving multiple elements for individuality and proposes a theory of mask multivocality that appreciates the ways in which masquerade the social drama becomes concretized. With this two-pronged conceptual innovation, it first demonstrates a patterned relationship between social individuals and mask multivocality. Dualists take more voices from the mask than atomists or collectivists. Dualists take the most contradictory voices as well. Second, it shows that Koreans who take more meanings from the mask reveal not only more vulnerability but more transformative power amid the current pandemic. Demonstrating the promise of mask sociology for the action theory of individuality, it ultimately argues that individuals as social performers often reveal themselves as mask-wearers who become as transformative as they are vulnerable. While this model is founded upon the recent pandemic, it ramifies in political and cultural events that various face coverings accompany.

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Mask sociology as a way of action theory: Voices of the face mask among social individuals in the COVID-19 masquerade in South Korea

Shim

2023

PLoS ONE

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“…To be sure, in the neoliberal age, when economic exchanges can loom large in what Tavory (2016: 95) calls the “rhythms and patterns of situations and interaction,” the digital “protection” of the self-concept would seem greatly consequential. As Turner (1968: 97) states, the self-concept is “subject to recurring empirical test” in everyday life; although it can indeed withstand occasional refutations, its sense of value as well as “its essential attribute of reality” (Turner, 1968: 97) require routine reaffirmations throughout the ongoing succession of interactions in order to be sustained.…”

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Profit, Self, and Agency: A Reevaluation

Ailon

2021

Critical Sociology

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In 1939, Erich Fromm argued that capitalist culture imbues the pursuit of economic advantage with moral tensions that harm self and psyche. Since this time, the inner implications of such tensions have been somewhat overlooked by theorists, and not without seemingly good reasons. By many accounts, social and technological developments in the later decades of the 20th century have ostensibly reduced the cultural tensions surrounding profit making and mitigated their inner effects. This article, however, presents a different account. Drawing from literature on culture, self, and subjectivity in the neoliberal era, it argues that the tensions Fromm identified have actually been recreated in new, sometimes more elusive ways that bear substantial inner costs. Moreover, focusing on economic elites, this article analytically explores the agentic implications of these inner costs. It argues that the moral tensions that haunt profit making ironically stand at the basis of capitalist agency, shaping its materialistic default through processes rooted in self.

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From Simmel to Relational Sociology

Mützel

Kressin

2021

Handbook of Classical Sociological Theory

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Interactionism: Meaning and Self as Process

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Mask sociology as a way of action theory: Voices of the face mask among social individuals in the COVID-19 masquerade in South Korea

Mask sociology as a way of action theory: Voices of the face mask among social individuals in the COVID-19 masquerade in South Korea

Profit, Self, and Agency: A Reevaluation

From Simmel to Relational Sociology

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