They will develop positive generalized others with the subcultures that they may produce. They engage in counter-othering which is the angry rejection of the imposed reflected appraisals of high-status people that intend to demean and reject them. Gender inequality is almost always prominent towards a female rather than towards a male. Symbolic interactionism and the concept of power Symbolic interactionism and the concept of power . It is a form of group exchange where one person gives to another, who then in turn gives to a third person. Ones and the others alternatives are measured by the number of alternatives times their value, which is the value of the alternative times its probability. First, in chain exchange (item 7) one person gives to another who then gives to a third party, and this continues to include more and more people as in pay it forward. Second, there are individual to closed group and open group exchanges (items 8 and 9). Although Boston elites tended to discriminate against the Irish, some Irish social entrepreneurs become more powerful over time. A symbolic interactionist who does directly confront symbolic interactionism on questions of power is Lonnie Athens (1992, 1997). However, a weak norm of generalized reciprocity (i.e., restricted exchange) will create weaker social bonds. The grandmother mentions the specific dress that the young girl wants at the most expensive boutique in town, and the scion she works for says, I know the owner of the store; I can talk to her. The grandmother then tells her granddaughter that the dress has been marked down by 70% of the original price so that it is the same price as the department store dress. In one way or another, George convinces his three brothers and one sister to also become personal injury lawyers. Trust may develop. There is a bond but it is contingent on tit-for-tat exchange. 2014: 46-47; Reynolds 1987). However, when groups are involved in strategic action then these calculations, in as much as they can be made, become quite important. In network terms, these processes are more reliant on strong ties than weak ties (Granovetter 1973). He questions George Herbert Meads predication of symbolic interaction as being based on sociation, which is the general consensual pursuit of cooperate social relations. The whole process of oppressive othering is linked to highly charged emotions on the part of both the oppressors and the subordinates. While this more or less goes back to Thomas Hobbes and the war of all against all, we do not have to flip flop on the basic motivations of humans and see that we all are motivated by both love and hate, cooperation or conflict, or caring and violence. And downward mobility is much more painful than lack of mobility. These can be seen in birthday parties in a family (group to individual that is closed by family members) or birthday parties at work where the exact people in the group may be constantly changing as employees come and go. Michael Schwalbe and five others present a theory of critical interactionism on how inequalities are created in society, and these can also be related to social mobility. Third, there are individual to societal exchanges whereby an individual agrees to various terms with a larger societal group. [2] Second, there are individual to group exchanges whereby a group might give a loan to an individual, and then the group expects payment by a particular date. Communicationthe exchange of meaning through language . In another way, a gift may be given to the taker, but the giver extracts a promise of a favor in the future. Authors Alex Dennis 1 , Peter J Martin Affiliation 1 School of English, Sociology, Politics and Contemporary History, University of Salford, UK. The low-status people will have negative generalized others vis--vis the high-status othering persons. We will refer to those who operate with more restricted exchange as opportunists in the next chapter on citizen selves. This means that for those who go upward on the social scale, some will go downward. Recall, the Mafia Don played by Marlon Brando in the opening scene of The Godfather taking care of an Italian fathers wish to revenge the shabby treatment of his daughter by some Anglo-boys. This does not mean that all social mobility in families is tied to generalized exchange. [3] Also, similar processes can develop with a tight knit group of friends from high school or college. Through your interactions with the letters 'dog', you see this as a furry, four-legged canine. Exchange theory then leads to bargaining processes, which will be discussed more fully in chapter 9 on the macro-level. Restricted and generalized exchange relate to how generalized others are constructed. In the bottom half of the table that describes low status, there are also three reactions. In one way or another, George convinces his three brothers and one sister to also become personal injury lawyers. It integrates a bargaining theory of power into symbolic interactionism, and alters the symbolic interactionist discussion of power by putting it into a context of social exchange and types of social mobility. Symbolic interaction has a particular weakness concerning a concept critical to political sociology and that is the concept of power. First, in chain exchange (item 7) one person gives to another who then gives to a third party, and this continues to include more and more people as in pay it forward. Second, there are individual to closed group and open group exchanges (items 8 and 9). In row 6 (items 16, 17 and 18) lower status persons with perhaps certain abilities and talents that they themselves recognize view their low status as being due to discrimination and bias coming from higher status persons. And lastly, Joseph P. Kennedy was the son of a successful Irish businessman. This type of exchange is favored by rational choice proponents and economists who see it as the paramount exchange that exists in markets. One important type of restricted exchange involves an important time dimension (see 2 in Table 5.1). First, in chain exchange (item 7) one person gives to another who then gives to a third party, and this continues to include more and more people as in pay it forward. Second, there are individual to closed group and open group exchanges (items 8 and 9). Also, Richard Titmus in the The Gift Relationship (1997) describes the difference between exchanging blood based on it being a gift or being paid for the donation. The symbolic interaction perspective, also called symbolic interactionism, is a major framework of the sociological theory. [1] This theory is elaborated by Samuel Bacharach and Edward Lawler (1980, 1981; Cook and Rice ) as power being the inverse of the number of valued alternatives that one may have in the sense of not being dependent on the relationship with the other. The grandmother mentions the specific dress that the young girl wants at the most expensive boutique in town, and the scion she works for says, I know the owner of the store; I can talk to her. The grandmother then tells her granddaughter that the dress has been marked down by 70% of the original price so that it is the same price as the department store dress. Relative power is the difference between your dependencies as compared to the other, and the others dependencies on you. Ones and the others alternatives are measured by the number of alternatives times their value, which is the value of the alternative times its probability. They engage in counter-othering which is the angry rejection of the imposed reflected appraisals of high-status people that intend to demean and reject them. The low-status people will have negative generalized others vis--vis the high-status othering persons. These may be negotiated by a leader but the followers know the terms of the agreement and are quick to point out any violations. Among her husbands business associates, it consists of being the life of the party and maintaining long-term friendships with business associates. What Is Symbolic Interactionism? One might say that this looks a bit like Robert Mertons theory of deviance (1938); however, the big difference is that Merton focused on blockages that exist but said little about the motivation and process by which they are accepted or overcome, and nothing about the emotions that they generate. For example, consider the following: In Chapel Hill in the early 2000s, an African-American nurse promises to buy her daughter a dress for the prom, but her choice at a reasonable price at the department store is deemed mundane by her daughter. This is presented in table 5.2 along with material from Jonathan Turner and Jan Stets (2004). The two types are when the groups overlap or they do not. They must struggle to keep their high status. . The second one is how ethnicity and race are socially constructed. For an auto example, Ford Motor Company has had many Ford family members running the company; however, General Motors has had only one Sloan in the form of Alfred P. Sloan who had no children and his foundation operates on the East Coast. a.j.dennis@salford.ac.uk PMID: 15926904 Generalized exchange was promoted by Malinowskis Kula Exchange in The Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and by studies of gift exchange with specified shells as the gift. In it, gifts can be used to benefit the whole community through philanthropy, but they also may serve to create patrimonial relationships. Collins theory is based on people being unequal in their resources, which links to power resources theory but he is a bit vague about the connection. The firm of Wilson and Wilson become quite successful, and eventually the younger brothers and two children who become lawyers then expand the business to six other states. They must struggle to keep their high status. Restricted and generalized exchange relate to how generalized others are constructed. Rose Kennedy kept the family strongly united with frequent family gatherings (Patterson and Fagen 2020). For example, the word 'dog' is just a series of letters. We do not have to trade caring for power, and for the most part, we can see these two forces as being consubstantial in society. The other form of strategic exchange is much narrower in scope and as a result it is called restricted exchange. The second type of exchange is generalized exchange. Joseph married Rose Fitzgerald, the daughter of the then Irish Mayor of Boston. The same would apply to group exchange. Or if the exchange is to take place over a long period of time, perhaps for loans and bond purchases, the arrangement is firmly structured with a contract that covers many different aspects of the exchange. A major difference between the two concerns how strategic people can be. This is presented in table 5.2 along with material from Jonathan Turner and Jan Stets (2004). But again, the social mobility boundary is fought most between row 3 of the vulnerable high-status people, and row 6 of the discriminated against but talented low-status persons. Their generalized others will have fewer long-term relationships and rely on a constant influx of new exchangers. In table 5.1, I present eleven different exchange relationships divided between restricted and generalized exchange, but I will only go over the main points. Power and Inequality in Symbolic Interaction, Social Psychology of Citizens and Subjects: Generalized Others and the Pathways to Inequality and Social Structure, Symbolic Interactionist Theory Revised for Political Sociology, Interactional Ritual Chains and Differential Association, From Generalized Others to Social Networks and Groups to Social Structure and Culture. [3] In the professions literature, a particular profession often engages in a professional project to raise the status of the group as a whole. Symbolic interactionism is a micro-level theory that focuses on the relationships among individuals within a society. The conflict theory garners most individuals into two classes that stimulate inequality. 2014: 46-47; Reynolds 1987). However, this negotiation is rather loose and not involved with a formal assessment of power. The end result is a more nuanced and extended theory of power in society with elements of motivation at the individual and group level. The mother reluctantly buys the dress for the ecstatic daughter, but angrily tells her mother (the daughters grandmother) that the scion has underpaid you for years, and that this is exactly what keeps us in our place.. Among her kin, she aims to keep the family together for over 50 years with parties with over 60 people. For example, an individual receiving unemployment insurance promises to be ready and able to work, and to search for work and fail in order to receive the benefit. Chapter 11 "Gender and Gender Inequality" examines some of the arguments of feminist theory at great length. Third, there are individual to societal exchanges whereby an individual agrees to various terms with a larger societal group. These are examples of generalized exchange through acquaintances rather than family. In the end, I conclude that both Athens and Mead are right but both are also incomplete. George Herbert Mead does not say much about power in his social psychological theory, and when encountering the topic, the authoritative symbolic interactionist text by Sandstrom, Lively, Martin and Fine (2014: 177-184) after a very brief review of the concept largely embraces the social exchange theory of Richard Emerson (1962) that sees power as dependency. The merit-based elites may protect the less able elites, and the discriminated subordinates with abilities may encourage the deferential people with hope. Her idea for social mobility is to work herself at the telephone company and maintain kinship and neighborly social relations. However, when groups are involved in strategic action then these calculations, in as much as they can be made, become quite important. In row 5 (items 13, 14, and 15) people may be of low rank because of accidents or bad luck. However, theories of political sociology cannot assume unrelenting social mobility for everyone since most social mobility is relational. In row 1 (items 1, 2 and 3) high status persons who feel that their status is based on ability engage in self-justified othering where they are validated, and they develop powerful virtual selves. Closer relationships like kin and close friends are more often in a generalized exchange relationship with a high degree of bonding in long-term relationships. Thus, our goal is to present an overview of the territory that symbolic interaction and sociological studies of emotions share and then analyze the most challenging direction for interactionist research: understanding the reproduction of inequality. Symbolic interactionism aims to understand human behavior by analyzing the critical role of symbols in human interaction. [1] This theory is elaborated by Samuel Bacharach and Edward Lawler (1980, 1981; Cook and Rice ) as power being the inverse of the number of valued alternatives that one may have in the sense of not being dependent on the relationship with the other. Most often, more distant others are in restricted exchange relationships. Fourth, there are two kinds of group-to-group exchange. Here are four examples with disguised names except for the last one. This inequality, is having an impact on the family and it is mostly negative. While it might seem like a big name, symbolic interactionism is how your experiences add subjective meanings to symbols and letters. Although the favored Joe Jr. died in World War II, Joseph Kennedys sons John F., Robert and Ted Kennedy had peak political careers. In generalized exchange, there are five different types (Ekeh 1974: 50; Janoski 1998: 82-85). These can be seen in birthday parties in a family (group to individual that is closed by family members) or birthday parties at work where the exact people in the group may be constantly changing as employees come and go. Differentiating these relationships gives meaning to positive and negative types of generalized others in the social mobility process. It is a further question of whether these negotiations or social bargains are involved with restricted or generalized exchange. For instance, Anselm Strauss (1978; Strauss et al. The other form of strategic exchange is much narrower in scope and as a result it is called restricted exchange. As we have seen with the Trump-base, many of these people state I want my country back and Make America Great again. While one might self-righteously declare them as unjustified, they do not agree, and they are a political force to be reckoned with. While the women largely stay at home, the male members of this kin group help each other to gain high paying jobs within the same industry as her husband with one becoming quite wealthy. The whole process of oppressive othering is linked to highly charged emotions on the part of both the oppressors and the subordinates. However, Strauss does not go far with this conception of bargaining as it might appear in political action. (2000) provide a more nuanced view of oppressive othering by viewing different attributions with external and internal reactions from generalized others. Generalized exchange was promoted by Malinowskis Kula Exchange in The Argonauts of the Western Pacific, and by studies of gift exchange with specified shells as the gift. And the subordinates react to oppressive othering in a number of different ways. Symbolic interactionism is a perspective employed, explicitly and implicitly, by communication scholars and others within the social sciences and humanities. Exclusive group negotiations may be harder to maintain than overlapping negotiations. But Athens does point to a critical weakness of symbolic interactionism as he comes up with a contrary view of the good socialization process described by George Herbert Mead, which is the process of violentization thesis. One could make a similar comment about the Bush family as a political dynasty (Baker 2008). In the bottom half of the table that describes low status, there are also three reactions. However, when groups are involved in strategic action then these calculations, in as much as they can be made, become quite important. In a formula this might be: Your Power = 1 / Others dependencies on you, The others power = 1 / Your dependencies on the other, Relative power in = (Your power) (Others power). Second, Beverly Johnson comes from an ethnic and lower-middle-class family and marries a man whose family has a prominent background. Much of this type of exchange is linked to rational action as per Max Webers concepts of rationality. Exclusive group negotiations may be harder to maintain than overlapping negotiations. Trust may develop. Given these points, there are clear differences between the structural functionalist, social conflict and symbolic interaction theories. There is a bond but it is contingent on tit-for-tat exchange. This is certainly relevant to the discussion of masculinity and femininity, because the characteristics and practices of both are socially constructed, reproduced, and reinforced through daily . In a sense, they are saying I want my social mobility back or I dont want others to be rising above me with their own social mobility. On the other hand, those on the bottom may make the claim that upward mobility has no effect on others at the top, but relationally, this is not the case. In their fearful position, they intensify their oppressive othering through discrimination with high intensity and emotion. Not all interaction is bargaining, and if someone in our personal lives is constantly keeping score and pursuing the maximum goods and services in our relationships, we most often regard this person as a taker who is too instrumentally interested in outcomes in a friendship relationship. Similarly, Josh Pacewicz (2016) shows how the old rich partisans made philanthropic gifts to keep town members in their debt, but these donations are small fractions of their total wealth. While this more or less goes back to Thomas Hobbes and the war of all against all, we do not have to flip flop on the basic motivations of humans and see that we all are motivated by both love and hate, cooperation or conflict, or caring and violence. One important type of restricted exchange involves an important time dimension (see 2 in Table 5.1). Thus, social mobility is not just achieving skills by merit, but it is also about self-work or personhood about countering and converting elite processes of oppressive othering with generalized others. Reading across the tables columns, the first three rows represent higher status persons, and the latter three rows are lower status persons. They actively construct a generalized other that recognizes their abilities and rejects oppressive othering, and they often will create positive sub-cultures among other low status but talented people that reflect their own more positive views (through ressentiment which was discussed earlier). The interactionist perspective on inequality looks at how certain social roles have more power or authority than others. The merit-based high-status persons and the low-skilled degraded low-status persons will most likely stay where they are in the social structureone feeling superior and the other deferential. Symbolic interactionism provides a major contribution to understanding inequality by illuminating the various manifestations and contexts of inequality at the micro, everyday level of social life. Expand 54 Emotion and Social Life: A Symbolic Interactionist Analysis S. Shott Sociology American Journal of Sociology 1979 When people engage in sociation often with generalized exchange they are interacting according to the process of sociation. But when people engage in strategic interaction they are following interaction through power, which may be conscious by tough negotiators or may have been socialized into them through violentization. And further, there are processes in between. This view of othering interacts with social mobility. And you know that the funeral director will not only do it to repay his debt, but if he does not, the Don will most certainly take a pound of flesh. When searching the word "socialization", the definition found was as follows: "a continuing process whereby an . He questions George Herbert Meads predication of symbolic interaction as being based on sociation, which is the general consensual pursuit of cooperate social relations. However, there are some people who are always in the restricted exchange mode (e.g., what have you done for me lately?). In the bottom half of the table that describes low status, there are also three reactions. This section interrogates the concept of power and its weak presence in symbolic interactionist theory, and then goes into the theorys conceptions of inequality. They have deference and may have shame, but they seek to avoid these emotions by building negative subcultures where they are accepted with their deficiencies. As we have seen with the Trump-base, many of these people state I want my country back and Make America Great again. While one might self-righteously declare them as unjustified, they do not agree, and they are a political force to be reckoned with. The merit-based elites may protect the less able elites, and the discriminated subordinates with abilities may encourage the deferential people with hope. Schwalbe et al.s (2000) view of blockages goes beyond Merton to state that higher elites impose oppressive othering on low status people through emotion, discrimination, and self-processes of internalization or counter-othering. In row 5 (items 13, 14, and 15) people may be of low rank because of accidents or bad luck. Exclusive group negotiations may be harder to maintain than overlapping negotiations. They largely do not see their bad luck as deserved but nonetheless it is what it is. They will often engage with higher ranked persons with cooperation and attempts at patronage and opportunism. For example, an individual receiving unemployment insurance promises to be ready and able to work, and to search for work and fail in order to receive the benefit. Oppressive othering penetrates the generalized other of Mead and indicates that people may promote or justify their positions in society by providing looking glass-self messages to others that they are inferior, inept, unworthy or otherwise inferior to themselves. These may be negotiated by a leader but the followers know the terms of the agreement and are quick to point out any violations. Their internalizations are highly manipulative and can often be violent because they are located closest to the boundary between high and low status, and they know it. However, if a family member ignores his brothers and sisters, he will need to make up for bonding capital with an extensive focus on bridging capital to a higher social class. Each one of these families utilized various aspects of generalized exchange in what they perceived as their social mobility prospects. Political sociology can use these exchange processes to show how various political interactions can be negotiated. Afterwards, he says that no payment is necessary, but: Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. And the Kennedy example, which of course is well known, shows how promotion can even lead to the Presidency of the United States. These reactions will also relate to the processes of positive, negative, and neutral generalized others discussed in the previous section. 2014: 185-86) speaks of a negotiated order and mentions bargaining. Afterwards, he says that no payment is necessary, but: Someday, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me. They see four factors as being important in the creation of inequality: oppressive othering, boundary maintenance, emotion management, and subordinate adaptations (Schwalbe et al. However, I want to move Schwalbe et al.s view of inequality further in the direction of social mobility. Their chances of positive mobility are greater. There are some strong inclinations toward bargaining theory in symbolic interactionist theory. All of the families used internal generalized exchange which can be referred to as bonding capital (Putnam 2000, 2020). The symbolic interaction theory basically addresses two issues. Relative power is the difference between your dependencies as compared to the other, and the others dependencies on you. However, theories of political sociology cannot assume unrelenting social mobility for everyone since most social mobility is relational. . Social Exchange in Symbolic Interaction with Bonding and Bridging Capital. Sociologists working from this perspective would be interested in understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic has affected the way people interact with each . However, if a family member ignores his brothers and sisters, he will need to make up for bonding capital with an extensive focus on bridging capital to a higher social class. Rose Kennedy kept the family strongly united with frequent family gatherings (Patterson and Fagen 2020). For instance, Anselm Strauss (1978; Strauss et al. We will refer to those who operate with more restricted exchange as opportunists in the next chapter on citizen selves. Beverly Johnson combined bonding and bridging capital to maintain family solidarity and to advance her husbands career (since the husbands father died early, this limited greater bridging capital) both through the absence of the father and the tendency for widows sociality being restricted (i.e., there is no husband to promote and her lowered income makes the husbands mother a bit downwardly mobile). While they may have their differences, they show a lot of similarities when comparing certain traits within a certain theory including the economic inequality, deviance and gender as discussed above. The second type of exchange is generalized exchange. 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