Symbolic Interaction

Papers
(The TQCC 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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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The Frames of Group Culture: Moments and Their Teams17
St. Clair Drake, the Chicago School, and the Emergence of a New Urban Black Perspective16
Wild Lives9
Stories behind Shopping: The Social Dynamics of Multimodal Shopping Interactions9
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The Stories We're Told: Nation‐Specific Narratives of Race and Racism7
“It Was Really Sick:” Managing Moral Evaluations during Personality Disorder Interviews7
The Staying Power of Analytical Distance: Lyn Lofland's Contribution to the Sociology of Death, Dying, and Bereavement7
Resisting the Confines of Colonialism, within and with Walls6
“We Come Not Here to Talk”—Revisiting the Work of Anna Julia Cooper: An Analysis of Standpoint Theory and Her Placement in the Academic Canon6
Passing as Able‐Bodyminded, Disabled, or Supercrip: Rethinking Impression Management Strategies Through a Disability Lens6
On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships6
The Social Construction of Sustainable Reality by Cultural Engagement with Climate Change5
Lyn H. Lofland: Exemplary Symbolic Interactionist5
Beyond Subculture and Post‐Subculture: Embracing Sensitizing Concepts5
The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings4
Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”4
How the Impossible Remains Impossible: Mundane Reason Confronts Time Travel Images4
“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns4
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Invoking (Dis)Likes at the Dinner Table3
Keeping Us Safe in the Sky: Unpacking the Work of Air Traffic Controllers3
Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults3
“We Never Imagined:” Animals and Vulnerability in Contexts of Disaster2
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There Will be Blood: Exploring Embodied Labor by Learning the Craft2
The Frame Analysis of Participation: A Goffmanian Take on Democratic Interaction and its Ambiguities2
Corporeal Interactions inVRChat: Situational Intensity and Body Synchronization2
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
Contemplating Phenomenology, Yoga, and the Embodied Sharing of Meaning2
Navigating Omnirelevant Asymmetry: Encouraging Children to Exercise Their Deontic Rights in Videoconferencing Music Lessons2
Nothing Personal: On the Making of Generic Social Identities2
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Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration2
Revisiting Medical Nemesis: Sociological Studies of Psychiatrization2
The Functioning of the Self During the Interlinkage of Action: A Radical Interactionist Perspective2
Curricular Dreams in Medical Education1
Conflict Over Conspiracy Theories: Face‐Work, Epistemic Identity, and the Structure of Interactions1
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Restoring Social Theorists of Color to the Canon1
Spectral Sociology1
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Dancing Their Hearts Out1
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The Spirituality of Carceral Citizenship: “Making Your Test Your Testimony”1
The Robots Are Coming1
Hard Work and Fun: Collective Online Interaction in a Case of Photo Fraud1
Drowning in Debt? Exploring the Intersection of Flood Insurance and Social Inequality1
The Human Spectrum: A Critique of “Neurodiversity”1
Group Styles of Justice or Service: How Ticket Inspectors Manage Contested Citizen Encounters1
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Who Are the Real Team Players in the Sport Marriage?1
On the Ideals of Interaction and Why and How They Fail1
Police Accounts of Body‐Worn Camera Footage In News Media1
Beyond Bodily Co‐Presence: A Micro‐Sociological Study of Online Interaction Rituals1
Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology1
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Intersectional Perspectives in Technology and Society0
W. E. B. Du Bois as Interactionist: Reflections on the Canonical Incorporation of a Marginalized Scholar0
Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants0
Reacquainting Ourselves with the Familiar0
Transgender Possibilities and the Cisgendering of Family among Cisgender Women0
The Performance of Expertise0
The Neo‐Ethnomethodological Program(s): On Alignments with and Departures from Garfinkel0
Mask Wearing as an Emotional Practice: Collective Emotional Work in the COVID‐Conscious Digital Counterpublic0
A “High Lonesome Sound” Calling you Home0
The Impartial Judge: Judging and Emotional Labor0
When Less Is More: The Semiotic Privilege of Status Downplay0
Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Dogs, People, and Dispute0
Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony0
Banishment, Grounding, and Excommunication: A Typology of Punitive Isolation0
Authentic Identities in Late‐Modern Globalized Social Scenes0
The Gonzo Character of Contemporary American Politics: Media Logics from Donald Trump to Kyrsten Sinema0
Former Athletes' Illness Stories of Brain Injuries: Suspected Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and the Entanglement of Never‐Aging Masculinities0
“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations0
From Tourists' Interpretation to National Identity in National Parks: A Semiotic Analysis0
Adult Self‐Change from a Radical Interactionist Perspective: The Case of “Ray Charles”0
Tensions in a Book on Breakdowns0
Intrapersonal Interactions on Social Media: Self‐Curatorship within the Museum of Self0
Paradoxes of Displeasure: Understanding Collegiate Hookup Culture's Resilience to Negative Emotional Energy0
Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the “Good Death” in Mixed Species Families0
Making Friends as Interactional Work: Young Refugees in Germany0
Everyday Encounters with Urban Suffering0
“Excluded Participation”: Some Observations of Non‐Reciprocal Interaction in a Danish Fifth Grade Classroom0
“Lace up Your Boots and Do Something:” A Symbolic‐Interactionist Analysis of Girls and Young Women Equestrian Athletes' Resilience0
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Do Goffman Studies Exist?0
Creative Visions in New York City's Contemporary Art Scene0
Moral Communities in a Race Status Negotiation: A Dorm Room Urination Case0
Collective Inattention in an Online Milk‐Sharing Community: Rules of Relevance and the COVID‐19 Vaccine0
Inequality, Rules of Irrelevance, and Recognition in Broken Friendships0
Towards More Mindful Research in Restless Times: Some Warm‐Up Exercises0
A Call to Protect Both Humans and Non‐Humans in Disasters0
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No Denying the Pervasiveness of Denial0
Revisiting the Place and Race Divide0
A Leisure Approach to Sex in Research0
Ethics in Crisis? A Paradigm Revolution for Ethical Research in the Social Sciences0
Black Interactionist Thought and the Lived‐Experience Approach to Symbolic Interactionism0
Two Approaches to the Study of Music and Meaning in Everyday Life0
Emotions as Practical Resources in Everyday Life0
Framing the Purchase of Human Goods: Cosmetic Surgery Consumption in Capitalist South Korea0
Reading and Reworking “Studies of Work in the Sciences” (Parts I & II)0
A View from the Margins: How Movements Outside the Mainstream Create and Mobilize Knowledge of Autism0
“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
Limited and Limitless: The Experience of Time in Prison0
Negotiating Hope: Cultural Health Capital's Role in the Health Care System0
Authoritarian Beliefs in an Unstable World0
The “Actual Site” of Robots in Care0
Living Green while Locking Down? Bruno Latour on COVID‐19 Lockdowns in the Midst of the Climate Crisis0
Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees0
“I Am an Unashamed Cityphile”: Making Sense of a World of Strangers in Ann Arbor, Amsterdam, and Beyond0
Technology in Everyday Life0
A Political Goffman or Apolitical Goffman?0
Angry Place Claims and the Deceptive Female Body0
Situations as Relational Presences0
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The Bonds of Black Brotherhood: Brotherhood University and Black Friendships0
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Harvey Sacks and the Mirandum of Human Interaction0
Teaching Up: The Intersection of Impression Management and Controlling Images for Black, Cisgender, Women Faculty0
Multimodality: A Springboard for the Analysis of Identity in Human Interaction0
Joseph Gusfield Crossing the Atlantic0
An “Irresistible Concept” Without Proof of Concept: The Case of Food Deserts and Food Desert Activism0
Heroes, Victims, and Resisters: Agentic Vulnerability and Techniques of Identity Talk in Digitalized Job Centers0
The Continuities of Twitter Strategies and Algorithmic Terror0
Can't Buy Me Love: Gift‐Giving Among Members of Criminal Organizations0
Task‐Designated Identities in Danish Homeless Shelters0
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Erving Goffman on Misinformation and Information Control: The Conduct of Contemporary Russian Information Operations0
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Contemplating Society, Self, and Nature During an Ecological Disaster0
Garfinkel's Careful Examination of Parsons' Theory of Social Action as a Solution for the Problem of Social Order0
Science with Concepts0
White Jests: Review of The Souls of White Jokes0
Frame Analysis: Erving Goffman and the Sociocognitive Organization of Experience0
Visual Frame Analysis0
The Social Movement Social Club: How Activists Form Tiny Publics0
Music and the Social Construction of Self0
“Being Nice” as Modus Vivendi in Classrooms: A Collective Behavior Approach to Deviant Behavior in Primary Schools0
The Long Reach of the Law: Policing Black Athletes and Trans Bodies0
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Analysing Digital Interaction0
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Gender Category and Gender Status: A Critical Distinction0
Concept‐Driven Sociology0
Making Race Visible Through Cosmetic Surgery0
Put Your “Hand Emotes in the Air:” Twitch Concerts as Unsuccessful Large‐Scale Interaction Rituals0
Thinking about Unsettling Times0
Praxeologizing the State0
Suicide Affirmation and the Positive Right to Die0
Eigendynamik of Contemporary Administration0
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“Brexit Means Brexit!”: Investigating the Production of Social Phenomena in Political Discourses0
Drama at Work: From “Destructive Obedience” to Resistive Practices0
Religion, Environmental Concern, and the Importance of Race0
Dialogues of Self and Identity: Foundations for Collection Action0
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The Uncelebrated Cultural Basis for Democratic Innovation0
Modernity, Culture, and Feeling Authentic0
The Use of Dress to Navigate Pregnancy and Postpartum in Ghana0
Instantiated Recoupling in Principals' Enactment of Teacher Evaluations: Emotion Work and New Forms of Ceremonial Conformity in Educational Institutions0
Inhabiting Science in an Age of Global Institutional Diffusion0
Revitalizing the Sociology of Suicide for the 21st Century0
Navigating Ideologies: Mapping Their Imperfect Contours with Fair‐Mindedness0
Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab0
Mononormativity: The Social Elevation of the Singular0
Conducting Sensitive Interviews Online0
A Sociology of Childhood Among Many0
Anonymity, Deception, and Power0
Reframing African Art for the Future of Museums0
Wittgenstein and Bauman: Creative Minds in the Lifeworld0
A Neglected Aspect of Identity Change0
Interacting with Ghosts0
Goffman's Frame Analysis: Theoretical Possibilities Half a Century Later0
The MBTI as a Cultural Meme, Its Diffusion on Chinese Social Media, and Its Significance for Millenials' and Gen‐Zs' Selves and Identities0
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Creating “Windows of Opportunity”: How Police Officers Sense and Generate Momentum for Gaining Control in Police‐Civilian Interactions0
The Social Logic of Invasion0
On the Racial Imaginary as a Social Imaginary0
An Interactionist Approach to Media Representations of Sexual Violence0
The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters0
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Immediacy: Our Ways of Coping in Everyday Life0
A Note on Homelessness and the Moral Economy: How Thompson's Moral Economy Presents in Modern Day Homelessness0
Well‐Primed for Qualitative Research0
The Silicone Self: Examining Sexual Selfhood and Stigma within the Love and Sex Doll Community0
Intersectional Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran0
“The Poorer the Sicker, and Vice Versa?” Mapping the Sociological Research on Mental Health and Illness0
Diagnosis: Prestige Hierarchy Located in the Medical Profession0
From Engagement to Disengagement in a Psychiatric Assessment Process0
“I Should Pay:” Interaction Ritual Presentation in PK Live Streaming0
Undermining the Moral Obligations of Manhood Acts0
Time as a Weapon: Women, Temporal Experience, and Resistance in a Central New York Jail0
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Contemporary Japanese Women Migration to the United States: Shin Issei Community0
“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
Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes0
Perverts or Heroes in the Post‐Socialist “Cold War”: Formula Stories of Lesbian/Bisexual/Queer Women and Transgender People in Ukrainian Media0
Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression0
A Tasty Cup of Truth0
Intimacy in the Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra‐Orthodox Women of Low Socioeconomic Status0
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Power and Stripping0
Politics of Crisis: Threatening and Defending Journalistic Expertise—A Processual Account0
Research Methodology as Interactive Epistemology0
Community Choirs: Communities of Practice and Dilemma0
Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope0
David R. Maines: Embedding Symbolic Interactionism at the Heart of Sociology0
Managing Popular Culture Stigmas: A Comparative Analysis of Managing Stigmas Associated with Country and Hip Hop Fandom0
Damaged Goods: Victimhood‐Survivorship and the Social Marking of Identity0
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Accumulating a Body of Knowledge: Tailing the Detectives0
Parental Defenses in Interactions with the Police0
Where Memoir and Method Collide: Reconstructing Rules of Sociological Inquiry0
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How to Bleach a Pandemic Away0
Viral Fear or Panic Myth? Emotions in Ebola News and Social Media Responses0
“Being Mean” and “Spazzing Out:” Social Calibration and Gender in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Training0
The United States of the Few: How Welfare for the Rich Keeps Hurting America's Poor0
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War, by Gary D. Jaworski0
Birthing A Secret Creative Self in Suppressive Organizations0
The Power of a ????: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters0
The Ghost in the Machine: On Persons as Processes0
Achieving Global Humanity0
Editors' Introduction to Lyn Lofland's Intellectual Legacy0
The Self from a Radical Interactionist's Perspective: Its Basic Components, Phylogenesis, and Ontogenesis0
Unveiling the Hidden Toll of Gun Violence and Grief on Black Teenage Boys0
The Ethnographic Ear: Circularity and Emotion in Carceral Soundscapes0
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Autism “From the Outside In”0
Fateful Moments: On Collective Effervescence and Emotional Energy in the Chase for Fun0
Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities0
Lifeworld and Deathworld in Human and Nonhuman Animal Relationships0
We Are Viral Justice0
On Doing Concept‐Driven Sociology0
Theme‐Driven Social Analysis: Three Approaches0
Frame Analysis and Animal Studies: Erving Goffman's Overlooked Thesis on Animal Metacommunication and Mind0
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