Based on analyses of six individual interviews with young people from a sixth-grade school class, this study explores how talk about bullying and particular case in their class various positions. Utilising thematic analysis, three themes were conceptualised as crucial bullying: social status, powerful positions fragile Symbolic interactionism, emphasising perspectives constructed interaction, u...

This study describes conflict resolution using the theory of symbolic interactionism by Herbert Blumer and George Mead. The contains three main substances, namely mind, self society. self-concept put forward has criteris, emotions, attitudes, beliefs, values. Self-concept is an attempt to understand interpret actions others through symbols, so that agreement or compromise occurs. Conflict effor...

Places play a crucial role in the formation of both individual and collective identities. This article seeks to specify how identity is constructed sustained on basis emotional bonds that members group grow place. Drawing basic tenets symbolic interactionism, argues order function as foundation identity, place needs be perceived meaningful object particular value. Furthermore, meaningfulness oc...

The views of linguistic analysts and objectivists are explored with regard to the question of interactionism. It is argued that the admission of a logical difference between explanation by cause and explanation by motive cannot disqualify causal explanations of human action, cannot be construed as challenging the competence of science, and cannot count against interactionism. It is also argued ...

The purposes of this paper are to acquaint readers with a number of existing approaches to the problem of woman battering and to examine clinical interventions against the background of several relevant sociological theories. Specifically, techniques for counseling female victims and male batterers are discussed from the perspectives of symbolic interactionism and critical theory. Symbolic inte...

Network analysis, especially as it has been understood in relation to the specific methodological approaches of Social Network Analysis (SNA), is not a tool that is naturally employed by interpretive sociologists, social constructionists or symbolic interactionists. To state it simply, SNA focuses on the presence of connections between people and the structural dimensions of relations whereas S...

This is a conceptual paper to study the effects of external factors on public perceptions of social welfare. The study reviews literature on the history of social welfare during the presidencies of Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon B. Johnson, and William Clinton. The paper goes on to analyze three factors that play role on perceptions. These factors are values, environmental factors (economics and po...