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 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 Racism7
“It Was Really Sick:” Managing Moral Evaluations during Personality Disorder Interviews7
On Drifting Apart: Temporality and Space in the Dissolution of Relationships6
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
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
Erich Fromm and Global Public Sociology1
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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
The Ethnographic Ear: Circularity and Emotion in Carceral Soundscapes0
Towards More Mindful Research in Restless Times: Some Warm‐Up Exercises0
Immediacy: Our Ways of Coping in Everyday Life0
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A Note on Homelessness and the Moral Economy: How Thompson's Moral Economy Presents in Modern Day Homelessness0
Revisiting the Place and Race Divide0
Lifeworld and Deathworld in Human and Nonhuman Animal Relationships0
Reading and Reworking “Studies of Work in the Sciences” (Parts I & II)0
Intersectional Feminism and the Politics of Respectability in Iran0
Black Interactionist Thought and the Lived‐Experience Approach to Symbolic Interactionism0
“The Poorer the Sicker, and Vice Versa?” Mapping the Sociological Research on Mental Health and Illness0
Emotions as Practical Resources in Everyday Life0
Authoritarian Beliefs in an Unstable World0
Time as a Weapon: Women, Temporal Experience, and Resistance in a Central New York Jail0
“I Say I Work at the University:” Norwegian Professors and Passing as Interaction Ritual0
Contemporary Japanese Women Migration to the United States: Shin Issei Community0
Limited and Limitless: The Experience of Time in Prison0
From Engagement to Disengagement in a Psychiatric Assessment Process0
W. E. B. Du Bois as Interactionist: Reflections on the Canonical Incorporation of a Marginalized Scholar0
A Political Goffman or Apolitical Goffman?0
Normalizing the Shamed Self: Stigma, Neutralization and “Narrative Credibility” in Interviews on White‐Collar Transgression0
Living Green while Locking Down? Bruno Latour on COVID‐19 Lockdowns in the Midst of the Climate Crisis0
“I Am an Unashamed Cityphile”: Making Sense of a World of Strangers in Ann Arbor, Amsterdam, and Beyond0
Categorizational Asymmetries in Context: Producing and Resisting Policeable Scenes0
The Neo‐Ethnomethodological Program(s): On Alignments with and Departures from Garfinkel0
Politics of Crisis: Threatening and Defending Journalistic Expertise—A Processual Account0
Angry Place Claims and the Deceptive Female Body0
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Don't Bite the Hand that Feeds You: Dogs, People, and Dispute0
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Managing Popular Culture Stigmas: A Comparative Analysis of Managing Stigmas Associated with Country and Hip Hop Fandom0
Teaching Up: The Intersection of Impression Management and Controlling Images for Black, Cisgender, Women Faculty0
Joseph Gusfield Crossing the Atlantic0
Parental Defenses in Interactions with the Police0
“Bad Things Happen in Philadelphia”: Managing Stigma and Threats in the Wake of False Criminal Accusations0
Where Memoir and Method Collide: Reconstructing Rules of Sociological Inquiry0
The Continuities of Twitter Strategies and Algorithmic Terror0
Task‐Designated Identities in Danish Homeless Shelters0
“Being Mean” and “Spazzing Out:” Social Calibration and Gender in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu Training0
Frame Analysis: Erving Goffman and the Sociocognitive Organization of Experience0
Collective Inattention in an Online Milk‐Sharing Community: Rules of Relevance and the COVID‐19 Vaccine0
Contemplating Society, Self, and Nature During an Ecological Disaster0
Achieving Global Humanity0
Science with Concepts0
Symposium on Erving Goffman and the Cold War, by Gary D. Jaworski0
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No Denying the Pervasiveness of Denial0
The Social Movement Social Club: How Activists Form Tiny Publics0
Autism “From the Outside In”0
“Being Nice” as Modus Vivendi in Classrooms: A Collective Behavior Approach to Deviant Behavior in Primary Schools0
The Self from a Radical Interactionist's Perspective: Its Basic Components, Phylogenesis, and Ontogenesis0
Put Your “Hand Emotes in the Air:” Twitch Concerts as Unsuccessful Large‐Scale Interaction Rituals0
Two Approaches to the Study of Music and Meaning in Everyday Life0
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On Doing Concept‐Driven Sociology0
Concept‐Driven Sociology0
Frame Analysis and Animal Studies: Erving Goffman's Overlooked Thesis on Animal Metacommunication and Mind0
Accounting for Friendlessness: Stigma and the Quest for an Honorable Self0
Thinking about Unsettling Times0
Reacquainting Ourselves with the Familiar0
Suicide Affirmation and the Positive Right to Die0
Transgender Possibilities and the Cisgendering of Family among Cisgender Women0
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Types of Struggles in Disrupted Interaction: A Case of Hard‐of‐Hearing Employees0
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A “High Lonesome Sound” Calling you Home0
Religion, Environmental Concern, and the Importance of Race0
The Impartial Judge: Judging and Emotional Labor0
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When Less Is More: The Semiotic Privilege of Status Downplay0
Situations as Relational Presences0
Inhabiting Science in an Age of Global Institutional Diffusion0
Banishment, Grounding, and Excommunication: A Typology of Punitive Isolation0
The Uncelebrated Cultural Basis for Democratic Innovation0
Authentic Identities in Late‐Modern Globalized Social Scenes0
The Use of Dress to Navigate Pregnancy and Postpartum in Ghana0
A Sociology of Childhood Among Many0
Adult Self‐Change from a Radical Interactionist Perspective: The Case of “Ray Charles”0
Navigating Ideologies: Mapping Their Imperfect Contours with Fair‐Mindedness0
Intrapersonal Interactions on Social Media: Self‐Curatorship within the Museum of Self0
Mononormativity: The Social Elevation of the Singular0
Former Athletes' Illness Stories of Brain Injuries: Suspected Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy and the Entanglement of Never‐Aging Masculinities0
Multimodality: A Springboard for the Analysis of Identity in Human Interaction0
Everyday Encounters with Urban Suffering0
Reframing African Art for the Future of Museums0
A Neglected Aspect of Identity Change0
Kinship Health Relationships: Reconfiguring the “Good Death” in Mixed Species Families0
Can't Buy Me Love: Gift‐Giving Among Members of Criminal Organizations0
Goffman's Frame Analysis: Theoretical Possibilities Half a Century Later0
Creative Visions in New York City's Contemporary Art Scene0
The MBTI as a Cultural Meme, Its Diffusion on Chinese Social Media, and Its Significance for Millenials' and Gen‐Zs' Selves and Identities0
Creating “Windows of Opportunity”: How Police Officers Sense and Generate Momentum for Gaining Control in Police‐Civilian Interactions0
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A Call to Protect Both Humans and Non‐Humans in Disasters0
An Interactionist Approach to Media Representations of Sexual Violence0
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A Leisure Approach to Sex in Research0
Diagnosis: Prestige Hierarchy Located in the Medical Profession0
Making Race Visible Through Cosmetic Surgery0
The Silicone Self: Examining Sexual Selfhood and Stigma within the Love and Sex Doll Community0
Framing the Purchase of Human Goods: Cosmetic Surgery Consumption in Capitalist South Korea0
Ethics in Crisis? A Paradigm Revolution for Ethical Research in the Social Sciences0
“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
Eigendynamik of Contemporary Administration0
Undermining the Moral Obligations of Manhood Acts0
Negotiating Hope: Cultural Health Capital's Role in the Health Care System0
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A View from the Margins: How Movements Outside the Mainstream Create and Mobilize Knowledge of Autism0
Intimacy in the Occupational Rehabilitation Group for Ultra‐Orthodox Women of Low Socioeconomic Status0
Dialogues of Self and Identity: Foundations for Collection Action0
Perverts or Heroes in the Post‐Socialist “Cold War”: Formula Stories of Lesbian/Bisexual/Queer Women and Transgender People in Ukrainian Media0
Technology in Everyday Life0
A Tasty Cup of Truth0
The “Actual Site” of Robots in Care0
Modernity, Culture, and Feeling Authentic0
Power and Stripping0
The Bonds of Black Brotherhood: Brotherhood University and Black Friendships0
Research Methodology as Interactive Epistemology0
Harvey Sacks and the Mirandum of Human Interaction0
Erving Goffman at 100: A Chameleon Seen as a Rorschach Test within a Kaleidoscope0
Embedded Interactions and Selective Disclosure: Network Effects on Conversations aboard Skylab0
David R. Maines: Embedding Symbolic Interactionism at the Heart of Sociology0
An “Irresistible Concept” Without Proof of Concept: The Case of Food Deserts and Food Desert Activism0
Damaged Goods: Victimhood‐Survivorship and the Social Marking of Identity0
Heroes, Victims, and Resisters: Agentic Vulnerability and Techniques of Identity Talk in Digitalized Job Centers0
Accumulating a Body of Knowledge: Tailing the Detectives0
Wittgenstein and Bauman: Creative Minds in the Lifeworld0
The United States of the Few: How Welfare for the Rich Keeps Hurting America's Poor0
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Erving Goffman on Misinformation and Information Control: The Conduct of Contemporary Russian Information Operations0
Viral Fear or Panic Myth? Emotions in Ebola News and Social Media Responses0
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Editors' Introduction to Lyn Lofland's Intellectual Legacy0
Garfinkel's Careful Examination of Parsons' Theory of Social Action as a Solution for the Problem of Social Order0
Birthing A Secret Creative Self in Suppressive Organizations0
White Jests: Review of The Souls of White Jokes0
The Ghost in the Machine: On Persons as Processes0
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Fateful Moments: On Collective Effervescence and Emotional Energy in the Chase for Fun0
Music and the Social Construction of Self0
Unveiling the Hidden Toll of Gun Violence and Grief on Black Teenage Boys0
The Long Reach of the Law: Policing Black Athletes and Trans Bodies0
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Visual Frame Analysis0
The Trajectory of an Agreement: Tracing Objectivated Knowledge Across a Series of Mundane Encounters0
Gender Category and Gender Status: A Critical Distinction0
Exploring the EMCA Community: Strengths, Challenges, and Opportunities0
We Are Viral Justice0
Analysing Digital Interaction0
Well‐Primed for Qualitative Research0
Theme‐Driven Social Analysis: Three Approaches0
Praxeologizing the State0
Intersectional Perspectives in Technology and Society0
Art as a Channel and Embodiment of Symbolic Interaction Between Migrants and Non‐Migrants0
“Brexit Means Brexit!”: Investigating the Production of Social Phenomena in Political Discourses0
“I Should Pay:” Interaction Ritual Presentation in PK Live Streaming0
Drama at Work: From “Destructive Obedience” to Resistive Practices0
The Performance of Expertise0
Mask Wearing as an Emotional Practice: Collective Emotional Work in the COVID‐Conscious Digital Counterpublic0
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The Gonzo Character of Contemporary American Politics: Media Logics from Donald Trump to Kyrsten Sinema0
Community Choirs: Communities of Practice and Dilemma0
Sex, Gender, and Bodies: Transmisogyny and Garfinkel's Status Degradation Ceremony0
Instantiated Recoupling in Principals' Enactment of Teacher Evaluations: Emotion Work and New Forms of Ceremonial Conformity in Educational Institutions0
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Paradoxes of Displeasure: Understanding Collegiate Hookup Culture's Resilience to Negative Emotional Energy0
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From Tourists' Interpretation to National Identity in National Parks: A Semiotic Analysis0
Conducting Sensitive Interviews Online0
Tensions in a Book on Breakdowns0
Revitalizing the Sociology of Suicide for the 21st Century0
“Lace up Your Boots and Do Something:” A Symbolic‐Interactionist Analysis of Girls and Young Women Equestrian Athletes' Resilience0
How to Bleach a Pandemic Away0
Making Friends as Interactional Work: Young Refugees in Germany0
Interacting with Ghosts0
“Excluded Participation”: Some Observations of Non‐Reciprocal Interaction in a Danish Fifth Grade Classroom0
Anonymity, Deception, and Power0
The Power of a ????: Emojis Reducing Ambiguity in Digitally Mediated Romantic Encounters0
Do Goffman Studies Exist?0
The Social Logic of Invasion0
Moral Communities in a Race Status Negotiation: A Dorm Room Urination Case0
On the Racial Imaginary as a Social Imaginary0
Inequality, Rules of Irrelevance, and Recognition in Broken Friendships0
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