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  • noun sociology The branch of sociology that studies interaction between individuals or groups

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interaction +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Of these, symbolic interactionism is closest to my assumptions about society.

    One ordinary day, with Hangover Helper 2005

  • As I see things, the best options for a nonreductionist are type-D dualism, type-E dualism, or type-F monism: that is, interactionism, epiphenomenalism, or panprotopsychism.

    Against Darwinism 2009

  • Libet proposes a theory of brain-mind interactionism (known in philosophy and theology as hylomorphism) opposed to a strict Cartesian substance dualism.

    Book Review: Quantum Enigma 2009

  • As Hewitt has suggested, feminist utopianism, like symbolic interactionism, seeks to create new conceptual spaces in which radically different ways of being can be imagined and in which different distributions of power, including sexual power, can be conceived (Contemporary 17-21).

    Feminist Utopianism and Female Sexuality in Joanna Baillie’s Comedies 2008

  • She combined the theories of pragmatism and cultural feminism with the central concepts of symbolic interactionism to form her sociological ideas.

    All Things Girl » All Things Girl » Blog Archive » Inspiring Women: Jane Addams 2008

  • Now, DiPietro tells me about how she came to investigate the possibility of maternal-fetal “interactionism”: by accident.

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • In order to have a meaningful ID theory, IDers need to drop the equivocations, the pretense that folk psychology is adequate to their needs, and put a stake in the ground for dualistic interactionism – or whatever they really are talking about when the use this damnably undefined term of theirs.

    Bunny and a Book 2008

  • Social behaviourism embraces a variety of approaches including symbolic interactionism and social action theory.

    On Social Behaviorism India 2009

  • Yang describes his theoretical approach as "multi-interactionism," by which he means that internet activism develops in dynamic relationship to a handful of separate social factors that facilitate and constrain the actions users can take.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Daniel Little 2009

  • Yang describes his theoretical approach as "multi-interactionism," by which he means that internet activism develops in dynamic relationship to a handful of separate social factors that facilitate and constrain the actions users can take.

    Internet activism in China Daniel Little 2009

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  • Belief that mind and body act on each other. (from Phrontistery)

    May 25, 2008