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Interactionism: Meaning and Self as Processractions between actors. This chapter traces the rise of interactionism and outlines the different research traditions inspired by symbolic interactionism. It focuses on three traditions: (a) an account of the crystallization of particular social selves over time; (b) the study of recurrent patterns

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Cultural Theorydiscussed, while at the same time forming core parts of the research agenda. Cultural theory is also one of the few strands of modern theorizing that boasts having a “straight line” of succession stemming from the programmatic concerns that preoccupied the sociological classics. Cultural theory carr

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The Macro and Meso Basis of the Micro Social Ordersuch an emphasis is only one half of the story. Interpersonal processes are embedded in societies, institutional systems, stratification systems, corporate units revealing divisions of labor, categoric units marking differences, and finally encounters or episodes of interaction. Attached to these st

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The Problem of Social Order in Nested Group Structurested in larger more removed or distant groups. These structures often generate fragmented, balkanized social orders in part because people tend to develop stronger ties and commitments to local (proximal) groups where they interact with others. A key reason is that positive emotions from those local

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Varieties of Sociological Field Theoryrder. Fields, once formed, are the arenas where the sociological game of jockeying for position constantly plays out. Our purpose is to review contemporary field theory as articulated in three major theoretical statements in sociology. We first discuss field theory’s intellectual roots, paying parti

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Institutional Spheres: The Macro-Structure and Culture of Social Lifepheres as the structural and cultural milieus in which all lower levels of social reality, like individual, collective, and clusters of collective actors, are embedded. Spheres like religion or law vary in terms of their degree of physical, temporal, and social differentiation vis-à-vis all other in

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The Concept of Community as Theoretical Ground: Contention and Compatibility Across Levels of Analysity provides a theoretical construct that is critical to understanding association among individuals and the linkages between the individual and society. Linking the experiential world of the individual to the abstraction of society and culture has been an enduring analytic and theoretical problem.

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Organizations as Sites and Drivers of Social Actions embeddedness, and drivers of them. Society and people configure organizations, and organizations shape and reproduce society and the lives of people. We illuminate the mechanisms through which these relations co-evolve, highlighting four bundles of social processes that operate inside and outside