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Personal Acts 1
Author(s) -
Stone Gregory P.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.1977.1.1.2
Subject(s) - orchestration , mode (computer interface) , psychology , epistemology , joint (building) , state (computer science) , social psychology , sociology , computer science , cognitive science , human–computer interaction , philosophy , engineering , programming language , art , musical , visual arts , architectural engineering
Personal acts, whether carried on alone or with others, are amenable to the same mode of analysis as joint actions. They are concerted. This article deals with six dimensions of the orchestration of such concerts—self, role and role‐taking, personal appearace, situations, out‐of‐awareness contexts, and symbols. Comments are made and questions raised about these dimensions that are not often made or raised in the literature of symbolic interaction. A rudimentary paradigm has been established which needs further systematizarjon and specification but may well guide future research even in its present state.