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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
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St. Clair Drake, the Chicago School, and the Emergence of a New Urban Black Perspective25
Wild Lives11
Stories behind Shopping: The Social Dynamics of Multimodal Shopping Interactions11
Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft10
The Frames of Group Culture: Moments and Their Teams9
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Formation of Distance‐Based Orientation: Political Identity through Relational Positioning in Israel9
“It Was Really Sick:” Managing Moral Evaluations during Personality Disorder Interviews8
Resisting the Confines of Colonialism, within and with Walls7
Passing as Able‐Bodyminded, Disabled, or Supercrip: Rethinking Impression Management Strategies Through a Disability Lens7
The Staying Power of Analytical Distance: Lyn Lofland's Contribution to the Sociology of Death, Dying, and Bereavement7
The Stories We're Told: Nation‐Specific Narratives of Race and Racism6
On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships5
Lyn H. Lofland: Exemplary Symbolic Interactionist5
The Social Construction of Sustainable Reality by Cultural Engagement with Climate Change5
Rethinking Interpretive Social Science From a Schutzian Perspective5
Beyond Subculture and Post‐Subculture: Embracing Sensitizing Concepts5
How the Impossible Remains Impossible: Mundane Reason Confronts Time Travel Images5
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
Keeping Us Safe in the Sky: Unpacking the Work of Air Traffic Controllers4
Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”4
Nothing Personal: On the Making of Generic Social Identities3
Sex Lives of the Chaste: A Lesson in Sociological Ambivalence3
Corporeal Interactions inVRChat: Situational Intensity and Body Synchronization3
Navigating Omnirelevant Asymmetry: Encouraging Children to Exercise Their Deontic Rights in Videoconferencing Music Lessons3
Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults3
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Performing Integrity: Managing Misalignment while Researching Transgressive Social Worlds3
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Invoking (Dis)Likes at the Dinner Table3
The Everyday of Epistemic Tensions in U.S. Psychiatry3
“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys3
Contemplating Phenomenology, Yoga, and the Embodied Sharing of Meaning3
There Will be Blood: Exploring Embodied Labor by Learning the Craft3
Conflict Over Conspiracy Theories: Face‐Work, Epistemic Identity, and the Structure of Interactions2
Police Accounts of Body‐Worn Camera Footage In News Media2
Restoring Social Theorists of Color to the Canon2
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The Functioning of the Self During the Interlinkage of Action: A Radical Interactionist Perspective2
Revisiting Medical Nemesis: Sociological Studies of Psychiatrization2
Curricular Dreams in Medical Education2
On the Ideals of Interaction and Why and How They Fail2
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Drowning in Debt? Exploring the Intersection of Flood Insurance and Social Inequality2
Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration2
Who Are the Real Team Players in the Sport Marriage?2
The Frame Analysis of Participation: A Goffmanian Take on Democratic Interaction and its Ambiguities2
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Erving Goffman: The Visible Scholar2
Hard Work and Fun: Collective Online Interaction in a Case of Photo Fraud2
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
The Spirituality of Carceral Citizenship: “Making Your Test Your Testimony”2
Intrapersonal Interactions on Social Media: Self‐Curatorship within the Museum of Self1
Contemporary Japanese Women Migration to the United States: Shin Issei Community1
Dancing Their Hearts Out1
A Note on Homelessness and the Moral Economy: How Thompson's Moral Economy Presents in Modern Day Homelessness1
The Long Reach of the Law: Policing Black Athletes and Trans Bodies1
The Self from a Radical Interactionist's Perspective: Its Basic Components, Phylogenesis, and Ontogenesis1
A View from the Margins: How Movements Outside the Mainstream Create and Mobilize Knowledge of Autism1
Anonymity, Deception, and Power1
“The Poorer the Sicker, and Vice Versa?” Mapping the Sociological Research on Mental Health and Illness1
The Human Spectrum: A Critique of “Neurodiversity”1
Spectral Sociology1
Heroes, Victims, and Resisters: Agentic Vulnerability and Techniques of Identity Talk in Digitalized Job Centers1
Temporal and Spatial Organization in Collaborative Work by Nurses in an Emergency and Critical Care Center1
Gonzo Governance and the Media Logic of American Fascism1
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War , by Gary D. Jaworski1
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Revitalizing the Sociology of Suicide for the 21st Century1
White Jests: Review of The Souls of White Jokes1
Beyond Bodily Co‐Presence: A Micro‐Sociological Study of Online Interaction Rituals1
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Group Styles of Justice or Service: How Ticket Inspectors Manage Contested Citizen Encounters1
Harvey Sacks and the Mirandum of Human Interaction1
Frame Analysis and Animal Studies: Erving Goffman's Overlooked Thesis on Animal Metacommunication and Mind1
Hashtag ChristianGirl : The White Commodified Self on TikTok1
The “Actual Site” of Robots in Care1
Erving Goffman on Misinformation and Information Control: The Conduct of Contemporary Russian Information Operations1
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The Neo‐Ethnomethodological Program(s): On Alignments with and Departures from Garfinkel0
Making Race Visible Through Cosmetic Surgery0
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Tensions in a Book on Breakdowns0
Perverts or Heroes in the Post‐Socialist “Cold War”: Formula Stories of Lesbian/Bisexual/Queer Women and Transgender People in Ukrainian Media0
No Denying the Pervasiveness of Denial0
Community Choirs: Communities of Practice and Dilemma0
Emotions and Mood. Can We Remain Hopeful for the Future?0
A Tasty Cup of Truth0
Mononormativity: The Social Elevation of the Singular0
Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression0
An Outline of a Theory of Play0
Angry Place Claims and the Deceptive Female Body0
“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
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Everyday Encounters with Urban Suffering0
From Tourists' Interpretation to National Identity in National Parks: A Semiotic Analysis0
Frame Analysis: Erving Goffman and the Sociocognitive Organization of Experience0
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The Bonds of Black Brotherhood: Brotherhood University and Black Friendships0
A Political Goffman or Apolitical Goffman?0
“Lace up Your Boots and Do Something:” A Symbolic‐Interactionist Analysis of Girls and Young Women Equestrian Athletes' Resilience0
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“Excluded Participation”: Some Observations of Non‐Reciprocal Interaction in a Danish Fifth Grade Classroom0
Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope0
Contrastive Self‐Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes0
Managing Popular Culture Stigmas: A Comparative Analysis of Managing Stigmas Associated with Country and Hip Hop Fandom0
Conducting Sensitive Interviews Online0
Damaged Goods: Victimhood‐Survivorship and the Social Marking of Identity0
Studying and Teaching Emotions0
How to Bleach a Pandemic Away0
From River to Review: An Autoethnographic Inquiry into the Negotiated Self in Academic Publishing0
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When Less Is More: The Semiotic Privilege of Status Downplay0
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The Grammar of Exclusion: Slurs, Stigma, and the Racialization of Turks in Iran0
Framing the Purchase of Human Goods: Cosmetic Surgery Consumption in Capitalist South Korea0
Living Green while Locking Down? Bruno Latour on COVID‐19 Lockdowns in the Midst of the Climate Crisis0
A Neglected Aspect of Identity Change0
The United States of the Few: How Welfare for the Rich Keeps Hurting America's Poor0
The Ethnographic Ear: Circularity and Emotion in Carceral Soundscapes0
Reacquainting Ourselves with the Familiar0
Reading and Reworking “Studies of Work in the Sciences” (Parts I & II)0
Emancipatory Potential of Naming: A Study on Church Employees' Personal Stories of Negative Experiences0
We Are Viral Justice0
“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations0
Situations as Relational Presences0
Authoritarian Beliefs in an Unstable World0
Reframing African Art for the Future of Museums0
Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants0
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The Ghost in the Machine: On Persons as Processes0
Contemplating Society, Self, and Nature During an Ecological Disaster0
Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook0
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An Interactionist Approach to Media Representations of Sexual Violence0
Unveiling the Hidden Toll of Gun Violence and Grief on Black Teenage Boys0
Mask Wearing as an Emotional Practice: Collective Emotional Work in the COVID‐Conscious Digital Counterpublic0
Thinking about Unsettling Times0
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Making Friends as Interactional Work: Young Refugees in Germany0
Where Memoir and Method Collide: Reconstructing Rules of Sociological Inquiry0
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Gender Category and Gender Status: A Critical Distinction0
Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process0
Drama at Work: From “Destructive Obedience” to Resistive Practices0
Paradoxes of Displeasure: Understanding Collegiate Hookup Culture's Resilience to Negative Emotional Energy0
How “Vulnerability” Manifests as an Interactional Asymmetry in Police Interviews with Adolescent Suspects and Intellectually Impaired Witnesses0
Music and the Social Construction of Self0
The Social Logic of Invasion0
The Gonzo Character of Contemporary American Politics: Media Logics from Donald Trump to Kyrsten Sinema0
Technology in Everyday Life0
Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Dogs, People, and Dispute0
Time as a Weapon: Women, Temporal Experience, and Resistance in a Central New York Jail0
Being Patient0
Put Your “Hand Emotes in the Air:” Twitch Concerts as Unsuccessful Large‐Scale Interaction Rituals0
Concept‐Driven Sociology0
David R. Maines: Embedding Symbolic Interactionism at the Heart of Sociology0
All I See Are the Gaps: Semiotic Realignments in the Post‐Renaissance Tattoo Culture0
Research Methodology as Interactive Epistemology0
The Social Movement Social Club: How Activists Form Tiny Publics0
Can't Buy Me Love: Gift‐Giving Among Members of Criminal Organizations0
Ethics in Crisis? A Paradigm Revolution for Ethical Research in the Social Sciences0
Suicide Affirmation and the Positive Right to Die0
Editors' Introduction to Lyn Lofland's Intellectual Legacy0
Fateful Moments: On Collective Effervescence and Emotional Energy in the Chase for Fun0
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Interacting with Ghosts0
Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities0
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Inhabiting Science in an Age of Global Institutional Diffusion0
Visual Frame Analysis0
Theme‐Driven Social Analysis: Three Approaches0
Black Interactionist Thought and the Lived‐Experience Approach to Symbolic Interactionism0
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Accumulating a Body of Knowledge: Tailing the Detectives0
Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees0
Goffman's Frame Analysis: Theoretical Possibilities Half a Century Later0
Task‐Designated Identities in Danish Homeless Shelters0
Asymmetrical Entitlement: Establishing Rights to Experience in Radio Talk about Child Death0
Creating “Windows of Opportunity”: How Police Officers Sense and Generate Momentum for Gaining Control in Police‐Civilian Interactions0
Well‐Primed for Qualitative Research0
Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in the Field: Revelations Made in “Sticky Moments”0
Dialogues of Self and Identity: Foundations for Collection Action0
Religion, Environmental Concern, and the Importance of Race0
Joseph Gusfield Crossing the Atlantic0
The Use of Dress to Navigate Pregnancy and Postpartum in Ghana0
The Adventures of Structure0
Teaching Up: The Intersection of Impression Management and Controlling Images for Black, Cisgender, Women Faculty0
Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony0
Viral Fear or Panic Myth? Emotions in Ebola News and Social Media Responses0
“Time‐Tripping” and Memory‐Making: A Grounded Theory of Grounded Theory0
The Performance of Expertise0
Analysing Digital Interaction0
Revisiting the Place and Race Divide0
Looking for Trouble: Pre‐Intervention Monitoring in Human and AI Driver Training0
Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self0
Intersectional Perspectives in Technology and Society0
Intimacy in the Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra‐Orthodox Women of Low Socioeconomic Status0
Surviving the Edge: Precarious Lives on the Venice Beach Boardwalk0
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The Power of a ????: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters0
Immediacy: Our Ways of Coping in Everyday Life0
The “We” and “Me” of Identity in Hazardous Industry Organizations: Face Work Tactics Among Practicing Engineers0
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Intersectional Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran0
Collective Inattention in an Online Milk‐Sharing Community: Rules of Relevance and the COVID‐19 Vaccine0
Emotions as Practical Resources in Everyday Life0
A Leisure Approach to Sex in Research0
“I Should Pay:” Interaction Ritual Presentation in PK Live Streaming0
On Doing Concept‐Driven Sociology0
The MBTI as a Cultural Meme, Its Diffusion on Chinese Social Media, and Its Significance for Millennials' and Gen‐Zs' Selves and Identities0
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Parental Defenses in Interactions with the Police0
“The Civil Rights Movement of Our Time”: Reentry Workers' Moral Identity Work0
“Brexit Means Brexit!”: Investigating the Production of Social Phenomena in Political Discourses0
Instantiated Recoupling in Principals' Enactment of Teacher Evaluations: Emotion Work and New Forms of Ceremonial Conformity in Educational Institutions0
Moral Communities in a Race Status Negotiation: A Dorm Room Urination Case0
Undermining the Moral Obligations of Manhood Acts0
Modernity, Culture, and Feeling Authentic0
Autism “From the Outside In”0
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A Sociology of Creativity from Canadian Art and Design Universities0
Towards More Mindful Research in Restless Times: Some Warm‐Up Exercises0
Former Athletes' Illness Stories of Brain Injuries: Suspected Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and the Entanglement of Never‐Aging Masculinities0
Science with Concepts0
“Being Nice” as Modus Vivendi in Classrooms: A Collective Behavior Approach to Deviant Behavior in Primary Schools0
“I Am an Unashamed Cityphile”: Making Sense of a World of Strangers in Ann Arbor, Amsterdam, and Beyond0
Two Approaches to the Study of Music and Meaning in Everyday Life0
Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab0
The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and Navigation of Social Asymmetries‐in‐Action: An Introduction to the Special Issue0
Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the “Good Death” in Mixed Species Families0
The Uncelebrated Cultural Basis for Democratic Innovation0
Do Goffman Studies Exist?0
Wittgenstein and Bauman: Creative Minds in the Lifeworld0
W. E. B. Du Bois as Interactionist: Reflections on the Canonical Incorporation of a Marginalized Scholar0
The Goffman Nobody Knows0
Navigating Ideologies: Mapping Their Imperfect Contours with Fair‐Mindedness0
The Narrative Construction of Identities: Scenes, Audiences, and Generalized Others0
The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters0
A Sociology of Childhood Among Many0
Limited and Limitless: The Experience of Time in Prison0
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