Social interaction

The Centre for Social Research (CSR.Salford) has a worldwide reputation for our work in social interactionism (the study of how people act toward and respond to others), including symbolic interactionsim (how we interpret the meaning of each other’s actions). It helps us understand the pay people behaviour together in different social situations.

We are also the host for the internet forum for the International Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism.

Researchers:

• Professor Greg Smith - Social interactions; visual sociology
• Dr Rob Philburn - Conversational interaction; social stigma; face and facework

Recent publications:

• Philburn, R & Smith, G & Dennis, A 2012, Social Interaction, Polity, Cambridge, UK
  
• Smith, G 2006, Erving Goffman, Routledge, London, UK
• Smith, G & S., B M 2012 'Symbolist and Structuralist Analysis of Visual Representations', in: SAGE Visual Methods, SAGE, London, UK
• Smith, G & Manning, P 2010 'Social theory and symbolic interactionism', in: Elliott, A (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Social Theory, Routledge, London, UK, pp.37-55
• Smith, G 2010 'Reconsidering Gender Advertisements: Performativity, framing and display', in: Jacobsen, M H (ed.), The Contemporary Goffman , Routledge, London, UK, pp.165-184
• Philburn, R 2011 'Aspects of English and German Sociable Selfhood', in: Witte, A & Harden, T (eds.), Intercultural Competence: Concepts, Challenges, Evaluations, Peter Lang, Oxford, UK.

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