Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 2 Microdynamics
Micro-level dynamics revolve around face-to-face interactions among individuals. What occurs within encounters is constrained by their embedding with corporate and categoric units and, by extension, institutional domains, stratification systems, community
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Jonathan H. Turner
Theoretical Principles of Sociology, Volume 2 Microdynamics
Jonathan H. Turner Department of Sociology University of California at Riverside Riverside, CA USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-4419-6224-9 e-ISBN 978-1-4419-6225-6 DOI 10.1007/978-1-4419-6225-6 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010929262 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
To the memory of my early mentors at the University of California at Santa Barbara from 1961–1965: Tamotsu Shibutani, Donald R. Cressey, and Walter Buckley, all of whom exposed me to symbolic interactionist theory, which became the starting point of my interest in micro theory. An especial thanks to Tamotsu Shibutani, my advisor for 3 years, for cultivating my interest in psychoanaltyic theory, a key ingredient in my approach to the study of emotions.
Preface
This is the second volume of Theoretical Principles of Sociology on microdynamic processes. Like the other volumes in this trilogy of books, I seek to define the fundamental properties of a realm of social reality and then develop principles on the operate dynamics of these properties. The ultimate goal is to articulate a series of highly abstract principles that apply to all times and places that humans have interacted and organized. The twenty-nine nice principles in this volume explain, I believe, many if not most of what transpires when humans interact in focused (face-to-face) and unfocused (avoidance of face engagement) encounters. I obviously take the distinction between focused and unfocused encounters from Irving Goffman because I see encounters as the fundamental structure of the micro social realm. A theory of microdynamics should explain the forces driving the behaviors of individuals in encounters, and as is evident, these behaviors are constrained not just by the properties and dynamics of encounters but also by the dynamics of meso- and macro-level phenomena. An encounter is almost always embedded with in meso- and macro-level sociocultural formations. This embedding loads the values of the variables in the theory, while providing conduits by which the meso and macro realms influence individuals interactions i
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