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Openings Revisited: The Foundations of Social Interaction
Author(s) -
Hintz Robert A.,
Miller Dan E.
Publication year - 1995
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.1995.18.3.355
Subject(s) - scope (computer science) , miller , foundation (evidence) , reading (process) , sociology , epistemology , symbolic interactionism , social science , computer science , political science , law , philosophy , ecology , biology , programming language
Twenty years after its publication, the “openings” research of Miller, Hintz, and Couch (1975) continues to be the conceptual foundation of the New Iowa School of Symbolic Interation. However, we believe that this work has been misread. Returning to the original work, we offer a new reading of this groundbreaking research that broadens the scope of the analysis and more closely defines the hierarchical structure of social interation found in all social encounters.