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EMERGENT SOCIALITY: A DIALECTIC OF COMMITMENT AND ORDER
Author(s) -
Rawls Anne Warfield
Publication year - 1990
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.1990.13.1.63
Subject(s) - sociality , dialectic , conversation , loyalty , sociology , order (exchange) , social psychology , psychology , social order , epistemology , communication , political science , philosophy , business , law , ecology , finance , biology , politics
A conversation has a life of its own and makes demands on its own behalf. It is a little social system with its own boundary maintaining tendencies; it is a little patch of commitment and loyalty with its own heroes and its own villains. (Goffman 1967:113)
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