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Symbolic Interaction and Postmodernism: Close Encounter of a Dubious Kind
Author(s) -
Farberman Harvey A.
Publication year - 1991
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.1991.14.4.471
Subject(s) - postmodernism , symbolic interactionism , the symbolic , power (physics) , sociology , epistemology , symbolic power , politics , symbolic communication , computer science , social psychology , psychology , psychoanalysis , social science , philosophy , law , political science , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics
My aim here is threefold: firstly, to ask those who are attracted to certain aspects of postmodernism to avoid imprudent applications of it to our work; secondly, to assess the accomplishments of Symbolic Interaction as we approach the new millennium and; thirdly, to express the hope that Symbolic Interaction will deliver on it s deepest political and philosophical values by speaking truth to power while remembering whose side it is on.