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Selves and a Changing Social Form: Notes on Three Types of Hospitality
Author(s) -
Olesen Virginia
Publication year - 1994
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.1994.17.2.187
Subject(s) - situated , hospitality , sociology , symbolic interactionism , social psychology , fish <actinopterygii> , psychology , epistemology , political science , computer science , tourism , law , fishery , artificial intelligence , philosophy , biology
Taking hospitality as a social form, analysis of three altering types (domestic, airline, the hospice) shows reflections of social and economic forces that change the form and interactions within it and, hence, the selves of the interactants. It is suggested that symbolic interactionists pay particular attention to the dynamics of social forms as a way to link situated activity and larger social and economic forces.