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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
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St. Clair Drake, the Chicago School, and the Emergence of a New Urban Black Perspective24
Wild Lives11
Forged in Heat: Craft, Body, and Knowledge in Fire Craft10
Stories behind Shopping: The Social Dynamics of Multimodal Shopping Interactions10
“It Was Really Sick:” Managing Moral Evaluations during Personality Disorder Interviews9
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The Frames of Group Culture: Moments and Their Teams9
The Staying Power of Analytical Distance: Lyn Lofland's Contribution to the Sociology of Death, Dying, and Bereavement8
Passing as Able‐Bodyminded, Disabled, or Supercrip: Rethinking Impression Management Strategies Through a Disability Lens7
Resisting the Confines of Colonialism, within and with Walls7
The Stories We're Told: Nation‐Specific Narratives of Race and Racism6
On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships5
How the Impossible Remains Impossible: Mundane Reason Confronts Time Travel Images5
The Social Construction of Sustainable Reality by Cultural Engagement with Climate Change5
Beyond Subculture and Post‐Subculture: Embracing Sensitizing Concepts5
“Do You Want to Continue?”—Coordinating the Closing of Conversations and Managing Face Concerns5
Lyn H. Lofland: Exemplary Symbolic Interactionist5
“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
The Everyday of Epistemic Tensions in U.S. Psychiatry4
The Interactional Pathways of Mass Killings: Toward a Novel Understanding of Rampage School Shootings4
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Rethinking Face‐to‐Face Interaction: Lessons from Studies of “Autistic Sociality”4
Keeping Us Safe in the Sky: Unpacking the Work of Air Traffic Controllers4
Violence, Volition, and Volatility: The Embodied Subjectivity of Women in Cults3
“I'm a Good Guy Who Deserves Better, Yet Nobody Wants to Give me Better”: The Accounts of Nice Guys3
Corporeal Interactions inVRChat: Situational Intensity and Body Synchronization3
Sex Lives of the Chaste: A Lesson in Sociological Ambivalence3
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Invoking (Dis)Likes at the Dinner Table3
Nothing Personal: On the Making of Generic Social Identities3
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Hard Work and Fun: Collective Online Interaction in a Case of Photo Fraud2
Moral Entrepreneurs of the Mastodon Migration2
The Frame Analysis of Participation: A Goffmanian Take on Democratic Interaction and its Ambiguities2
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
Drowning in Debt? Exploring the Intersection of Flood Insurance and Social Inequality2
Curricular Dreams in Medical Education2
On the Ideals of Interaction and Why and How They Fail2
Revisiting Medical Nemesis: Sociological Studies of Psychiatrization2
Who Are the Real Team Players in the Sport Marriage?2
There Will be Blood: Exploring Embodied Labor by Learning the Craft2
Contemplating Phenomenology, Yoga, and the Embodied Sharing of Meaning2
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Restoring Social Theorists of Color to the Canon2
Police Accounts of Body‐Worn Camera Footage In News Media2
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Conflict Over Conspiracy Theories: Face‐Work, Epistemic Identity, and the Structure of Interactions2
The Functioning of the Self During the Interlinkage of Action: A Radical Interactionist Perspective2
Navigating Omnirelevant Asymmetry: Encouraging Children to Exercise Their Deontic Rights in Videoconferencing Music Lessons2
The Spirituality of Carceral Citizenship: “Making Your Test Your Testimony”2
Dancing Their Hearts Out2
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Frame Analysis and Animal Studies: Erving Goffman's Overlooked Thesis on Animal Metacommunication and Mind1
Revitalizing the Sociology of Suicide for the 21st Century1
“The Poorer the Sicker, and Vice Versa?” Mapping the Sociological Research on Mental Health and Illness1
Beyond Bodily Co‐Presence: A Micro‐Sociological Study of Online Interaction Rituals1
Contemporary Japanese Women Migration to the United States: Shin Issei Community1
Erving Goffman: The Visible Scholar1
Anonymity, Deception, and Power1
Tensions in a Book on Breakdowns1
A View from the Margins: How Movements Outside the Mainstream Create and Mobilize Knowledge of Autism1
The Self from a Radical Interactionist's Perspective: Its Basic Components, Phylogenesis, and Ontogenesis1
Heroes, Victims, and Resisters: Agentic Vulnerability and Techniques of Identity Talk in Digitalized Job Centers1
White Jests: Review of The Souls of White Jokes1
Spectral Sociology1
Group Styles of Justice or Service: How Ticket Inspectors Manage Contested Citizen Encounters1
The Long Reach of the Law: Policing Black Athletes and Trans Bodies1
Harvey Sacks and the Mirandum of Human Interaction1
Gonzo Governance and the Media Logic of American Fascism1
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War , by Gary D. Jaworski1
The “Actual Site” of Robots in Care1
Erving Goffman on Misinformation and Information Control: The Conduct of Contemporary Russian Information Operations1
Intrapersonal Interactions on Social Media: Self‐Curatorship within the Museum of Self1
Temporal and Spatial Organization in Collaborative Work by Nurses in an Emergency and Critical Care Center1
A Note on Homelessness and the Moral Economy: How Thompson's Moral Economy Presents in Modern Day Homelessness1
The Human Spectrum: A Critique of “Neurodiversity”1
Religion, Environmental Concern, and the Importance of Race1
Drama at Work: From “Destructive Obedience” to Resistive Practices0
Fateful Moments: On Collective Effervescence and Emotional Energy in the Chase for Fun0
How “Vulnerability” Manifests as an Interactional Asymmetry in Police Interviews with Adolescent Suspects and Intellectually Impaired Witnesses0
A Leisure Approach to Sex in Research0
Banishment, Grounding, and Excommunication: A Typology of Punitive Isolation0
Paradoxes of Displeasure: Understanding Collegiate Hookup Culture's Resilience to Negative Emotional Energy0
Parental Defenses in Interactions with the Police0
Politics of Crisis: Threatening and Defending Journalistic Expertise—A Processual Account0
Undermining the Moral Obligations of Manhood Acts0
The Social Logic of Invasion0
Two Approaches to the Study of Music and Meaning in Everyday Life0
Conducting Sensitive Interviews Online0
Gender Category and Gender Status: A Critical Distinction0
Situations as Relational Presences0
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Intersectional Perspectives in Technology and Society0
Editors' Introduction to Lyn Lofland's Intellectual Legacy0
Interacting with Ghosts0
Time as a Weapon: Women, Temporal Experience, and Resistance in a Central New York Jail0
“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations0
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Surviving the Edge: Precarious Lives on the Venice Beach Boardwalk0
The Use of Dress to Navigate Pregnancy and Postpartum in Ghana0
Theme‐Driven Social Analysis: Three Approaches0
Managing Popular Culture Stigmas: A Comparative Analysis of Managing Stigmas Associated with Country and Hip Hop Fandom0
Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees0
Do Goffman Studies Exist?0
Moral Communities in a Race Status Negotiation: A Dorm Room Urination Case0
“The Civil Rights Movement of Our Time”: Reentry Workers' Moral Identity Work0
Limited and Limitless: The Experience of Time in Prison0
Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the “Good Death” in Mixed Species Families0
Mask Wearing as an Emotional Practice: Collective Emotional Work in the COVID‐Conscious Digital Counterpublic0
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Viral Fear or Panic Myth? Emotions in Ebola News and Social Media Responses0
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Being Patient0
Contemplating Society, Self, and Nature During an Ecological Disaster0
“Being Nice” as Modus Vivendi in Classrooms: A Collective Behavior Approach to Deviant Behavior in Primary Schools0
Navigating Ethical Dilemmas in the Field: Revelations Made in “Sticky Moments”0
Frame Analysis: Erving Goffman and the Sociocognitive Organization of Experience0
Dialogues of Self and Identity: Foundations for Collection Action0
Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants0
Black Interactionist Thought and the Lived‐Experience Approach to Symbolic Interactionism0
Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab0
The Adventures of Structure0
Accomplishing Ethics‐Work as a Generic Social Process0
Asymmetrical Entitlement: Establishing Rights to Experience in Radio Talk about Child Death0
“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
Collective Inattention in an Online Milk‐Sharing Community: Rules of Relevance and the COVID‐19 Vaccine0
David R. Maines: Embedding Symbolic Interactionism at the Heart of Sociology0
Living Green while Locking Down? Bruno Latour on COVID‐19 Lockdowns in the Midst of the Climate Crisis0
“Lace up Your Boots and Do Something:” A Symbolic‐Interactionist Analysis of Girls and Young Women Equestrian Athletes' Resilience0
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Wittgenstein and Bauman: Creative Minds in the Lifeworld0
Where Memoir and Method Collide: Reconstructing Rules of Sociological Inquiry0
Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope0
Immediacy: Our Ways of Coping in Everyday Life0
“I Should Pay:” Interaction Ritual Presentation in PK Live Streaming0
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Technology in Everyday Life0
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Instantiated Recoupling in Principals' Enactment of Teacher Evaluations: Emotion Work and New Forms of Ceremonial Conformity in Educational Institutions0
Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression0
The Goffman Nobody Knows0
Reacquainting Ourselves with the Familiar0
The United States of the Few: How Welfare for the Rich Keeps Hurting America's Poor0
Autism “From the Outside In”0
“Brexit Means Brexit!”: Investigating the Production of Social Phenomena in Political Discourses0
The Neo‐Ethnomethodological Program(s): On Alignments with and Departures from Garfinkel0
“I Am an Unashamed Cityphile”: Making Sense of a World of Strangers in Ann Arbor, Amsterdam, and Beyond0
Authoritarian Beliefs in an Unstable World0
Inhabiting Science in an Age of Global Institutional Diffusion0
Science with Concepts0
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Can't Buy Me Love: Gift‐Giving Among Members of Criminal Organizations0
We Are Viral Justice0
“Excluded Participation”: Some Observations of Non‐Reciprocal Interaction in a Danish Fifth Grade Classroom0
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Former Athletes' Illness Stories of Brain Injuries: Suspected Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and the Entanglement of Never‐Aging Masculinities0
The Bonds of Black Brotherhood: Brotherhood University and Black Friendships0
The Narrative Construction of Identities: Scenes, Audiences, and Generalized Others0
Damaged Goods: Victimhood‐Survivorship and the Social Marking of Identity0
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The Ghost in the Machine: On Persons as Processes0
Visual Frame Analysis0
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An Interactionist Approach to Media Representations of Sexual Violence0
Intersectional Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran0
Perverts or Heroes in the Post‐Socialist “Cold War”: Formula Stories of Lesbian/Bisexual/Queer Women and Transgender People in Ukrainian Media0
Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities0
The Power of a ????: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters0
A Sociology of Childhood Among Many0
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The Uncelebrated Cultural Basis for Democratic Innovation0
The Ethnographic Ear: Circularity and Emotion in Carceral Soundscapes0
The Gonzo Character of Contemporary American Politics: Media Logics from Donald Trump to Kyrsten Sinema0
Making Race Visible Through Cosmetic Surgery0
Well‐Primed for Qualitative Research0
Navigating Ideologies: Mapping Their Imperfect Contours with Fair‐Mindedness0
Intimacy in the Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra‐Orthodox Women of Low Socioeconomic Status0
Community Choirs: Communities of Practice and Dilemma0
Contrastive Self‐Categorization as a Resource for Defending Cultural Stereotypes0
Analysing Digital Interaction0
Revisiting the Place and Race Divide0
Angry Place Claims and the Deceptive Female Body0
How to Bleach a Pandemic Away0
Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes0
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Mononormativity: The Social Elevation of the Singular0
Put Your “Hand Emotes in the Air:” Twitch Concerts as Unsuccessful Large‐Scale Interaction Rituals0
Towards More Mindful Research in Restless Times: Some Warm‐Up Exercises0
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Concept‐Driven Sociology0
Music and the Social Construction of Self0
The Social Movement Social Club: How Activists Form Tiny Publics0
From Tourists' Interpretation to National Identity in National Parks: A Semiotic Analysis0
Ethics in Crisis? A Paradigm Revolution for Ethical Research in the Social Sciences0
Everyday Encounters with Urban Suffering0
No Denying the Pervasiveness of Denial0
When Less Is More: The Semiotic Privilege of Status Downplay0
An “Irresistible Concept” Without Proof of Concept: The Case of Food Deserts and Food Desert Activism0
Reading and Reworking “Studies of Work in the Sciences” (Parts I & II)0
From River to Review: An Autoethnographic Inquiry into the Negotiated Self in Academic Publishing0
Adult Self‐Change from a Radical Interactionist Perspective: The Case of “Ray Charles”0
The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters0
A Neglected Aspect of Identity Change0
The MBTI as a Cultural Meme, Its Diffusion on Chinese Social Media, and Its Significance for Millennials' and Gen‐Zs' Selves and Identities0
A Political Goffman or Apolitical Goffman?0
Framing the Purchase of Human Goods: Cosmetic Surgery Consumption in Capitalist South Korea0
All I See Are the Gaps: Semiotic Realignments in the Post‐Renaissance Tattoo Culture0
W. E. B. Du Bois as Interactionist: Reflections on the Canonical Incorporation of a Marginalized Scholar0
Creating “Windows of Opportunity”: How Police Officers Sense and Generate Momentum for Gaining Control in Police‐Civilian Interactions0
Research Methodology as Interactive Epistemology0
Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Dogs, People, and Dispute0
Goffman's Frame Analysis: Theoretical Possibilities Half a Century Later0
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Joseph Gusfield Crossing the Atlantic0
Suicide Affirmation and the Positive Right to Die0
Constructing Difference: Maternal Boundary‐Work in Science‐Based and Natural Mom Groups on Facebook0
Teaching Up: The Intersection of Impression Management and Controlling Images for Black, Cisgender, Women Faculty0
On Doing Concept‐Driven Sociology0
Task‐Designated Identities in Danish Homeless Shelters0
Birthing A Secret Creative Self in Suppressive Organizations0
Thinking about Unsettling Times0
The Performance of Expertise0
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Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony0
Unveiling the Hidden Toll of Gun Violence and Grief on Black Teenage Boys0
Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self0
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A Sociology of Creativity from Canadian Art and Design Universities0
Emancipatory Potential of Naming: A Study on Church Employees' Personal Stories of Negative Experiences0
Making Friends as Interactional Work: Young Refugees in Germany0
“Time‐Tripping” and Memory‐Making: A Grounded Theory of Grounded Theory0
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Reframing African Art for the Future of Museums0
Emotions as Practical Resources in Everyday Life0
The (Re)Production, Negotiation, and Navigation of Social Asymmetries‐in‐Action: An Introduction to the Special Issue0
Modernity, Culture, and Feeling Authentic0
A Tasty Cup of Truth0
Accumulating a Body of Knowledge: Tailing the Detectives0
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