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Identity, Time, and Situated Activity: An Interactions Analysis of Dyadic Transactions
Author(s) -
Katovich Michael A.
Publication year - 1987
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.1987.10.2.187
Subject(s) - situated , futures contract , interpersonal communication , identity (music) , categorical variable , perspective (graphical) , symbolic interactionism , sociology , cognitive reframing , epistemology , social psychology , projection (relational algebra) , psychology , computer science , aesthetics , philosophy , algorithm , artificial intelligence , machine learning , financial economics , economics
This article uses the symbolic interactionist perspective to discuss situated identities as linked to the projection of shared futures. First, a theoretical discussion is provided on how interactionists have defined identities and conceptualized the future. This discussion includes definitions of identities as instrumental or categorical, and general depictions of the future as restoring or externalizing. Then a role‐playing study is illustrated involving dyads constructing a job interview. Their videotaped interactions are thickly described. This analysis demonstrates how the process of linking interpersonal situated identities to broader future‐oriented concerns involves the construction of four distinct but interrelated empirical shared futures: the performable, patterned, implied mandatory, and codified futures. Further, the construction of identities and projection of futures involves a negotiated reality whereby interactants reassert, bolster, challenge, and reframe identities.