The Social Act: Re-Examination of a Concept

Miyamoto, S. Frank

doi:10.2307/1388368

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“…The concept of the social act references fleeting dynamic phenomena (Miyamoto 1959;Seckman and Couch 1989) and the concept of social relationships references relatively enduring stable phenomena (Weiland 1975). The two levels of social phenomena are closely intertwined.…”

Section: Forms Of Social Relationshipsmentioning

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Oh, What Webs Those Phantoms Spin

Couch¹,

Chen²

2017

Information Technologies and Social Orders

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Section: Forms Of Social Relationshipsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Oh, What Webs Those Phantoms Spin

Couch¹,

Chen²

2017

Information Technologies and Social Orders

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“…Mead's theory begins with the concept of action (Cook, 1993 vation (a biological or symbolic imbalance) and the action tends to continue until consummation (resolution of the imbalance) is achieved (Mead, 1934;Parsons & Shils, 1951;Miyamoto, 1959). The activity that is aroused by motivation serves the purpose of fulfilling the action.…”

Section: Actionmentioning

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A Theory of Interpersonal Relations for Cross Cultural Studies

2002

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“…Couch stressed that Mead's (1 934, 1938) examination of the relationship between emergence and structure is embedded in the joint production of meaning, which entails at minimum an initiation-response sequence. The meaning either is the response or is in the response (Blumer 1969a;Miyamoto 1959). Through indications to others or to self, social reality emerges within an interactional context.…”

Section: Couch's Data Careers As Founded On Social Responsivenessmentioning

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Couch theBricoleur: Using Ethnographic and Laboratory Traditions to Establish Data Careers

Katovich

1995

Symbolic Interaction

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Carl Couch reinvigorated the Iowa School of Symbolic Interaction by combining the theoretical and methodological tenets of ethnography and laboratory science. He thus resembled a bricoleur, or researcher who masters several seemingly diverse practices in order to create a seamless whole. Couch's new Iowa School also produced a bricolage, or a sum total of research findings, that I call a data career. This article pays tribute to Couch the bricoleur and his bricolage by elaborating on his data career and discussing how he created ethnographies in the laboratory. I further link the notions of bricoleur, data careers, and ethnographies in the laboratory with Couch's democratic vision. I contextualize this vision in light of a particular representative‐constituent study (RCS) which served as a metaphor for Couch's pragmatic outlook.

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The Social Act: Re-Examination of a Concept

Cited by 23 publications

References 7 publications

Oh, What Webs Those Phantoms Spin

Oh, What Webs Those Phantoms Spin

A Theory of Interpersonal Relations for Cross Cultural Studies

Couch theBricoleur: Using Ethnographic and Laboratory Traditions to Establish Data Careers

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