Symbolic Interaction

Papers
(The median citation count of Symbolic Interaction is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
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St. Clair Drake, the Chicago School, and the Emergence of a New Urban Black Perspective9
Wild Lives9
The Frames of Group Culture: Moments and Their Teams9
Stories behind Shopping: The Social Dynamics of Multimodal Shopping Interactions8
“It Was Really Sick:” Managing Moral Evaluations during Personality Disorder Interviews7
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The Staying Power of Analytical Distance: Lyn Lofland's Contribution to the Sociology of Death, Dying, and Bereavement6
Resisting the Confines of Colonialism, within and with Walls6
Passing as Able‐Bodyminded, Disabled, or Supercrip: Rethinking Impression Management Strategies Through a Disability Lens6
Beyond Subculture and Post‐Subculture: Embracing Sensitizing Concepts5
Lyn H. Lofland: Exemplary Symbolic Interactionist5
The Stories We're Told: Nation‐Specific Narratives of Race and Racism5
How the Impossible Remains Impossible: Mundane Reason Confronts Time Travel Images5
The Social Construction of Sustainable Reality by Cultural Engagement with Climate Change5
The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings4
“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns4
“We Come Not Here to Talk”—Revisiting the Work of Anna Julia Cooper: An Analysis of Standpoint Theory and Her Placement in the Academic Canon4
On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships4
Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”4
The Everyday of Epistemic Tensions in U.S. Psychiatry3
Invoking (Dis)Likes at the Dinner Table3
Keeping Us Safe in the Sky: Unpacking the Work of Air Traffic Controllers3
“We Never Imagined:” Animals and Vulnerability in Contexts of Disaster3
Nothing Personal: On the Making of Generic Social Identities3
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Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults3
Corporeal Interactions inVRChat: Situational Intensity and Body Synchronization2
Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration2
The Functioning of the Self During the Interlinkage of Action: A Radical Interactionist Perspective2
Contemplating Phenomenology, Yoga, and the Embodied Sharing of Meaning2
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Black Ethnographic Activists: Exploring Robert Park, Scientific Racism, The Chicago School, and FBI Files Through the Black Sociological Experience of Charles S. Johnson and E. Franklin Frazier2
Navigating Omnirelevant Asymmetry: Encouraging Children to Exercise Their Deontic Rights in Videoconferencing Music Lessons2
There Will be Blood: Exploring Embodied Labor by Learning the Craft2
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Revisiting Medical Nemesis: Sociological Studies of Psychiatrization2
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Conflict Over Conspiracy Theories: Face‐Work, Epistemic Identity, and the Structure of Interactions1
Drowning in Debt? Exploring the Intersection of Flood Insurance and Social Inequality1
Beyond Bodily Co‐Presence: A Micro‐Sociological Study of Online Interaction Rituals1
White Jests: Review of The Souls of White Jokes1
Group Styles of Justice or Service: How Ticket Inspectors Manage Contested Citizen Encounters1
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Hard Work and Fun: Collective Online Interaction in a Case of Photo Fraud1
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Restoring Social Theorists of Color to the Canon1
Intrapersonal Interactions on Social Media: Self‐Curatorship within the Museum of Self1
Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology1
Contemporary Japanese Women Migration to the United States: Shin Issei Community1
Police Accounts of Body‐Worn Camera Footage In News Media1
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The Spirituality of Carceral Citizenship: “Making Your Test Your Testimony”1
Curricular Dreams in Medical Education1
Dancing Their Hearts Out1
“The Poorer the Sicker, and Vice Versa?” Mapping the Sociological Research on Mental Health and Illness1
Spectral Sociology1
The Human Spectrum: A Critique of “Neurodiversity”1
On the Ideals of Interaction and Why and How They Fail1
The Frame Analysis of Participation: A Goffmanian Take on Democratic Interaction and its Ambiguities1
Who Are the Real Team Players in the Sport Marriage?1
Autism “From the Outside In”0
Contrastive Self‐Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes0
An Interactionist Approach to Media Representations of Sexual Violence0
Technology in Everyday Life0
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No Denying the Pervasiveness of Denial0
The Continuities of Twitter Strategies and Algorithmic Terror0
“Being Mean” and “Spazzing Out:” Social Calibration and Gender in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Training0
Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony0
Tensions in a Book on Breakdowns0
“I Say I Work at the University:” Norwegian Professors and Passing as Interaction Ritual0
Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self0
“Are We Watching the Same Video?”: On the Definition of the Situation and Audience Sense‐Making on Social Media about the Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson0
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Do Goffman Studies Exist?0
The Self from a Radical Interactionist's Perspective: Its Basic Components, Phylogenesis, and Ontogenesis0
Ethics in Crisis? A Paradigm Revolution for Ethical Research in the Social Sciences0
Multimodality: A Springboard for the Analysis of Identity in Human Interaction0
Emotions as Practical Resources in Everyday Life0
Praxeologizing the State0
Viral Fear or Panic Myth? Emotions in Ebola News and Social Media Responses0
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War, by Gary D. Jaworski0
A Tasty Cup of Truth0
“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations0
Inequality, Rules of Irrelevance, and Recognition in Broken Friendships0
Drama at Work: From “Destructive Obedience” to Resistive Practices0
Wittgenstein and Bauman: Creative Minds in the Lifeworld0
Anonymity, Deception, and Power0
“I Should Pay:” Interaction Ritual Presentation in PK Live Streaming0
Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope0
From Tourists' Interpretation to National Identity in National Parks: A Semiotic Analysis0
Towards More Mindful Research in Restless Times: Some Warm‐Up Exercises0
A Note on Homelessness and the Moral Economy: How Thompson's Moral Economy Presents in Modern Day Homelessness0
Concept‐Driven Sociology0
A Sociology of Creativity from Canadian Art and Design Universities0
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An “Irresistible Concept” Without Proof of Concept: The Case of Food Deserts and Food Desert Activism0
The United States of the Few: How Welfare for the Rich Keeps Hurting America's Poor0
Erving Goffman on Misinformation and Information Control: The Conduct of Contemporary Russian Information Operations0
Suicide Affirmation and the Positive Right to Die0
“Brexit Means Brexit!”: Investigating the Production of Social Phenomena in Political Discourses0
W. E. B. Du Bois as Interactionist: Reflections on the Canonical Incorporation of a Marginalized Scholar0
When Less Is More: The Semiotic Privilege of Status Downplay0
Adult Self‐Change from a Radical Interactionist Perspective: The Case of “Ray Charles”0
Modernity, Culture, and Feeling Authentic0
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“I Am an Unashamed Cityphile”: Making Sense of a World of Strangers in Ann Arbor, Amsterdam, and Beyond0
Music and the Social Construction of Self0
Theme‐Driven Social Analysis: Three Approaches0
Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities0
Visual Frame Analysis0
Everyday Encounters with Urban Suffering0
A Political Goffman or Apolitical Goffman?0
Eigendynamik of Contemporary Administration0
Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes0
We Are Viral Justice0
Community Choirs: Communities of Practice and Dilemma0
The Use of Dress to Navigate Pregnancy and Postpartum in Ghana0
Teaching Up: The Intersection of Impression Management and Controlling Images for Black, Cisgender, Women Faculty0
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Reframing African Art for the Future of Museums0
David R. Maines: Embedding Symbolic Interactionism at the Heart of Sociology0
The Performance of Expertise0
A Leisure Approach to Sex in Research0
Task‐Designated Identities in Danish Homeless Shelters0
Thinking about Unsettling Times0
The Gonzo Character of Contemporary American Politics: Media Logics from Donald Trump to Kyrsten Sinema0
Framing the Purchase of Human Goods: Cosmetic Surgery Consumption in Capitalist South Korea0
Contemplating Society, Self, and Nature During an Ecological Disaster0
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The Uncelebrated Cultural Basis for Democratic Innovation0
Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab0
The Ghost in the Machine: On Persons as Processes0
Achieving Global Humanity0
The Social Movement Social Club: How Activists Form Tiny Publics0
A View from the Margins: How Movements Outside the Mainstream Create and Mobilize Knowledge of Autism0
Science with Concepts0
Lifeworld and Deathworld in Human and Nonhuman Animal Relationships0
Accumulating a Body of Knowledge: Tailing the Detectives0
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Perverts or Heroes in the Post‐Socialist “Cold War”: Formula Stories of Lesbian/Bisexual/Queer Women and Transgender People in Ukrainian Media0
Navigating Ideologies: Mapping Their Imperfect Contours with Fair‐Mindedness0
The Ethnographic Ear: Circularity and Emotion in Carceral Soundscapes0
Put Your “Hand Emotes in the Air:” Twitch Concerts as Unsuccessful Large‐Scale Interaction Rituals0
Angry Place Claims and the Deceptive Female Body0
How to Bleach a Pandemic Away0
Harvey Sacks and the Mirandum of Human Interaction0
“Being Nice” as Modus Vivendi in Classrooms: A Collective Behavior Approach to Deviant Behavior in Primary Schools0
Can't Buy Me Love: Gift‐Giving Among Members of Criminal Organizations0
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The Social Logic of Invasion0
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Heroes, Victims, and Resisters: Agentic Vulnerability and Techniques of Identity Talk in Digitalized Job Centers0
Birthing A Secret Creative Self in Suppressive Organizations0
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Situations as Relational Presences0
Limited and Limitless: The Experience of Time in Prison0
Managing Popular Culture Stigmas: A Comparative Analysis of Managing Stigmas Associated with Country and Hip Hop Fandom0
Reading and Reworking “Studies of Work in the Sciences” (Parts I & II)0
Authentic Identities in Late‐Modern Globalized Social Scenes0
Moral Communities in a Race Status Negotiation: A Dorm Room Urination Case0
Mononormativity: The Social Elevation of the Singular0
Banishment, Grounding, and Excommunication: A Typology of Punitive Isolation0
Inhabiting Science in an Age of Global Institutional Diffusion0
Living Green while Locking Down? Bruno Latour on COVID‐19 Lockdowns in the Midst of the Climate Crisis0
The MBTI as a Cultural Meme, Its Diffusion on Chinese Social Media, and Its Significance for Millennials' and Gen‐Zs' Selves and Identities0
A Neglected Aspect of Identity Change0
Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression0
Dialogues of Self and Identity: Foundations for Collection Action0
Black Interactionist Thought and the Lived‐Experience Approach to Symbolic Interactionism0
Analysing Digital Interaction0
Gender Category and Gender Status: A Critical Distinction0
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Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the “Good Death” in Mixed Species Families0
Time as a Weapon: Women, Temporal Experience, and Resistance in a Central New York Jail0
Creating “Windows of Opportunity”: How Police Officers Sense and Generate Momentum for Gaining Control in Police‐Civilian Interactions0
From River to Review: An Autoethnographic Inquiry into the Negotiated Self in Academic Publishing0
Goffman's Frame Analysis: Theoretical Possibilities Half a Century Later0
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Parental Defenses in Interactions with the Police0
Joseph Gusfield Crossing the Atlantic0
Religion, Environmental Concern, and the Importance of Race0
Well‐Primed for Qualitative Research0
Diagnosis: Prestige Hierarchy Located in the Medical Profession0
Instantiated Recoupling in Principals' Enactment of Teacher Evaluations: Emotion Work and New Forms of Ceremonial Conformity in Educational Institutions0
Collective Inattention in an Online Milk‐Sharing Community: Rules of Relevance and the COVID‐19 Vaccine0
Conducting Sensitive Interviews Online0
The Power of a ????: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters0
Frame Analysis: Erving Goffman and the Sociocognitive Organization of Experience0
Negotiating Hope: Cultural Health Capital's Role in the Health Care System0
Undermining the Moral Obligations of Manhood Acts0
Frame Analysis and Animal Studies: Erving Goffman's Overlooked Thesis on Animal Metacommunication and Mind0
Interacting with Ghosts0
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Paradoxes of Displeasure: Understanding Collegiate Hookup Culture's Resilience to Negative Emotional Energy0
The Bonds of Black Brotherhood: Brotherhood University and Black Friendships0
Mask Wearing as an Emotional Practice: Collective Emotional Work in the COVID‐Conscious Digital Counterpublic0
Revitalizing the Sociology of Suicide for the 21st Century0
Where Memoir and Method Collide: Reconstructing Rules of Sociological Inquiry0
Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees0
Revisiting the Place and Race Divide0
Intersectional Perspectives in Technology and Society0
Power and Stripping0
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The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters0
“Lace up Your Boots and Do Something:” A Symbolic‐Interactionist Analysis of Girls and Young Women Equestrian Athletes' Resilience0
Immediacy: Our Ways of Coping in Everyday Life0
Fateful Moments: On Collective Effervescence and Emotional Energy in the Chase for Fun0
The Long Reach of the Law: Policing Black Athletes and Trans Bodies0
“Excluded Participation”: Some Observations of Non‐Reciprocal Interaction in a Danish Fifth Grade Classroom0
The Neo‐Ethnomethodological Program(s): On Alignments with and Departures from Garfinkel0
Intimacy in the Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra‐Orthodox Women of Low Socioeconomic Status0
Reacquainting Ourselves with the Familiar0
Two Approaches to the Study of Music and Meaning in Everyday Life0
The Impartial Judge: Judging and Emotional Labor0
Research Methodology as Interactive Epistemology0
On Doing Concept‐Driven Sociology0
Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Dogs, People, and Dispute0
Making Friends as Interactional Work: Young Refugees in Germany0
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Editors' Introduction to Lyn Lofland's Intellectual Legacy0
The “Actual Site” of Robots in Care0
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A Call to Protect Both Humans and Non‐Humans in Disasters0
Authoritarian Beliefs in an Unstable World0
Unveiling the Hidden Toll of Gun Violence and Grief on Black Teenage Boys0
Former Athletes' Illness Stories of Brain Injuries: Suspected Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and the Entanglement of Never‐Aging Masculinities0
Politics of Crisis: Threatening and Defending Journalistic Expertise—A Processual Account0
A Sociology of Childhood Among Many0
Damaged Goods: Victimhood‐Survivorship and the Social Marking of Identity0
How “Vulnerability” Manifests as an Interactional Asymmetry in Police Interviews with Adolescent Suspects and Intellectually Impaired Witnesses0
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Intersectional Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran0
Making Race Visible Through Cosmetic Surgery0
“Time‐Tripping” and Memory‐Making: A Grounded Theory of Grounded Theory0
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Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants0
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