Japanese Sociological Review
Online ISSN : 1884-2755
Print ISSN : 0021-5414
ISSN-L : 0021-5414
Symbolic Interaction and “Interpretation”
Mamoru Funatsu
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1978 Volume 29 Issue 2 Pages 2-14

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The problem of “how to grasp social interaction”, which is one of the oldest subject-matters of sociology, has not so many chances to be treated on its own right as we suppose.
In this paper, we take “social interaction” as “symbolic interaction”. Considering developments of man's “interpretation” process or inner logic of symbol, we can remark the formative, creative and dynamic nature of social interaction. In this case, it becomes an important problem to comprehend how to relate inner structure of “Interpretation” or symbol to the reality of social structure. We make clear “dialectic of symbol”; “deification of society and self”, and its relation.
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