The objective of this study was to understand how nurses become aware of the use of therapeutic play as a nursing intervention instrument. Symbolic Interactionism was the theoretical framework and Interpretive Interactionism was used as the methodological framework. Participants were seven nurses working at hospitals and outpatient pediatric units who used the therapeutic play in their practice...

In social science literature, researchers have discussed the implications of using symbolic interactionist ethnography. While the value of such an approach is accepted in social science research, it has not received adequate attention in IS literature. More importantly, there is a need to begin developing consensus on a set of principles to help researchers effectively combine the theoretical s...

The infant female is unique. Her particular qualities include specific genetic, hormonal, and physiological ingredients that help sculpt her development. Parental influences and the wider society and culture have a profound shaping effect on her particular biological components. Whereas male infants have their own inimitable developmental line, this paper’s focus is on the female. Our recent hi...

Article: Vreeke (this issue) asserts: ‘If you hold that reality is interactive, but use methods which presuppose the separateness of genes and the environment, your are stuck with a problem of interpretation.’ A similar point was made recently by a colleague in behavior genetics who chastised me, a critic of heritability analysis [Wahlsten, 1990, 1994, 1999a, 1999b], for employing the analysis ...

Presented as the Distinguished Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 1, 2008, this article rethinks central assumptions of the interaction order as conceptualized by Goffman and others with respect to global domains of activity.1 It proposes two new concepts, that of the synthetic situation and that of time transac...

The article considers the phenomenon of linguistic turn in humanities, sociology particular. natural causes this generation from point view various methodological approaches – symbolic interactionism, discourse theory, communication acts theory are presented. formation new field theoretical linguosociology and it succession with sociolinguistics substantiated. In conclusion, is shown, that a ph...

This paper draws upon symbolic interactionism in order to assess and discuss the findings from a longitudinal, single sector, case-based analysis of information system strategy (ISS) formation within two public sector institutions institutions that are often characterised as bureaucratic in form, and culture. Each case acquired sought large, complex applications off-the-shelf that required cust...

In this introduction, we provide the scholarly background that motivates special issue and briefly discuss its content. We touch on contemporary debates in symbolic interactionism, ethnomethodology conversation analysis, anthropology inform research undertaken by contributors. conclude deriving six interrelated themes—intersection, entwinement, multimodal, contextually embedded, structured, ser...