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From Mead to a Structural Symbolic Interactionism and Beyond
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This review discusses the continuing value of and problems in G.H. Mead's contributions to sociology from the standpoint of the contemporary discipline. It argues that the value is considerable and the problems largely avoidable with modifications to Mead's framework; it also offers necessary modifications via structural symbolic interactionism. Permitting the development of testable theories such as identity theory is a major criterion in evaluating a frame, and capacity to bridge to other frames and theories inside and outside sociology is another. The review examines bridges from the structural symbolic interactionist frame and identity theory to other symbolic interactionist theories, to other social psychological frames and theories in sociology, to cognitive social psychology, and to structural sociology.
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- Authors
- Stryker, S.
- Affiliations
- Indiana University Bloomington (US)
- Corresponding author
- Stryker, Sheldon
- Venue
- Annual Review of Sociology
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2008-08-01
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 15-31
- ISSN
- 0360-0572 (ISSN-L)
- 1545-2115
- OpenAlex
- W2162743985
- Cited by
- 394
- References
- 85
- Citations by year
- 2026: 17 · 2025: 33 · 2024: 24 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 25 · 2021: 31 · 2020: 27 · 2019: 25 · 2018: 22 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 27 · 2015: 22 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 17 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 4.70
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Annual Review of Sociology (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Weber, Simmel, Sociological Theory
- Social Sciences › Arts and Humanities › Philosophy › Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
- Keywords
- George Herbert Mead, identity theory, symbolic interactionism, cognitive social psychology, structural sociology, social psychology theory
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