Language and the Self: An Expanded View from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective*

Schwalbe, Michael

doi:10.1525/si.1983.6.2.291

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“…Forming a self involves a sense of continuity across time that involves intertwining of the past and an orientation toward a possible future (Giddens, 1991). The self is a template of action (Blumer, 1969;Charmaz, 1983Charmaz, , 1990Mead, 1934;Schwalbe, 1983). People use their self-concept notions as a frame of reference for making decisions and guiding subsequent behaviors.…”

Section: Theoretical Concerns: the Concept Of Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preserving Self: Theorizing the Social and Psychological Processes of Living With Parkinson Disease

2017

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The purpose of this constructivist grounded theory article is to identify, explore, and theorize the social and psychological processes used by people with Parkinson disease. Analytic procedures generated the five-stage theory of Preserving self of people with Parkinson disease: (a) making sense of symptoms, (b) defining turning points, (c) experiencing identity dilemmas, (d) reconnecting the self, and (e) envisioning a future. Reminders of former selves and capabilities were painful; participants desperately sought normalcy. Participants developed creative methods for maintaining independence but frequently overestimated their abilities and took risks. Participants were 15 men and 10 women (ages 40-95), most of whom lived with their families. Disease status was ascertained through medication logs and two scales: Hoehn and Yahr staging and Activities of Daily Living. Data included 62 in-depth interviews, nonparticipant observation, and participant photos, videos, and related documents. Recommendations were derived from the theory to support processes of Preserving Self as interventions designed to reduce the loss of self and to enhance Preserving self. These recommendations included developing relationships, teaching expected and unexpected feelings and behaviors, and involvement with sensory integrating activities.

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Section: Theoretical Concerns: the Concept Of Selfmentioning

confidence: 99%

Preserving Self: Theorizing the Social and Psychological Processes of Living With Parkinson Disease

2017

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“…Individual actors' subjective interpretations of meaning are at the heart of symbolic interactionism. The self, being an object of the human organism's own experience, must be given meaning to be considered when generating action [9]. These meanings can be regarded as sedimented in the selfconcept.…”

Section: Symbolic Interactionismmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Connection Between Nickname and Identity: Does it Reflect Intimacy or Shaming?

Dianitami¹,

Widyastuti²,

Setiawan³

2023

Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research

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Nicknames could represent ethnicity, social standing, or social reputation, all of which are thought to have social significance. Nicknames have a form of intimacy and familiarity with one another, and they also may have negative consequences such as shaming, bullying, humiliation, etc. This study looks into the Javanese people's nicknames and their meanings, the sources of nicknames, the response when others address them, and the social functions of using nicknames. A survey of thirty respondents from East Java who have and are addressed by their nicknames instead of their real names has conducted using a questionnaire to find out the answer. The results showed the meanings of nicknames are highly diverse from one another. It turns out that the sources of nicknames are coming from their physique or appearance, their nature or characteristic, daily habits or job, real name pun, family members, certain events, and unknown sources. Also, most nicknames represent intimacy rather than shaming. Responders could accept their nicknames with various responses such as pleased, normal, and disturbed. Therefore, nicknaming people in East Java can develop a new identity with multiple meanings and origins by stressing intimacy above shaming.

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“…In this way, understanding how power relations infuse individual identity, choice, and decision making is critical to how people move in the world (Ortner, 2006). Symbolic interactionist theories (Goffman, 1959, 1967; Schwalbe, 1983) argue that language is cocreated, thus underscoring the importance of attending to its use in participatory research spaces. Researchers have also recognized the importance of attending to positionality and power in multilingual settings (Giampapa & Lamoureux, 2011).…”

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Innovative participatory bilingual data analysis with Latinx/@ immigrants: Language, power, and transformation.

Hess¹,

Guzmán²,

Hernandez-Vallant³

et al. 2022

Cultural Diversity & Ethnic Minority Psychology

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Objective: The insights of Latinx/@ immigrants are essential to developing interventions that better address complex multilevel phenomena impacting mental health. Despite important advances in methods that genuinely embody participatory research practices, attention to collaborative data collection, analysis, and dissemination are limited. Our aim is to describe the development and implementation of research practices to address these gaps through an emphasis on and understanding of the centrality of language in collaborative research processes. Method: Guided from the outset by community-based participatory research principles, our community–academic research partnership recognized the importance of developing and intentionally studying our collaborative processes. As part of an ethnographic interview study with 24 Latinx/@ immigrants, a community–university research team developed innovative methods, including practices related to research team meetings, data collection, analysis, and dissemination, which we documented through ongoing discussion and reflection. Results: The resulting participatory research processes were grounded in a theoretical framework of praxis and language and included six innovative and iterative stages: (a) Establishing the research team, (b) planning the interview process/data collection, (c) developing the data analysis methodology, (d) interpreting findings to adapt the intervention, (e) integrating results of the participatory process into the analysis, and (f) data analysis for dissemination. Conclusions: A focus on praxis and language revealed how the language of research structures’ power, meaning, feeling, collaboration, analysis, and transformation. We also found that bilingual participatory analytic processes have important implications with respect to achieving genuine inclusion in rigorous research that moves toward equity for Latinx/@ immigrants and other populations.

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Language and the Self: An Expanded View from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective*

Cited by 11 publications

References 29 publications

Preserving Self: Theorizing the Social and Psychological Processes of Living With Parkinson Disease

Preserving Self: Theorizing the Social and Psychological Processes of Living With Parkinson Disease

A Connection Between Nickname and Identity: Does it Reflect Intimacy or Shaming?

Innovative participatory bilingual data analysis with Latinx/@ immigrants: Language, power, and transformation.

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