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On face-work; an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction.
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This article is published in Psychiatry MMC.The article was published on 1955-08-01. It has received 2287 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social relation & Personality disorders.read more
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Violence, aggression & coercive actions
TL;DR: In this paper, a theory that focuses on social conflicts and the concepts of power, influence, social identity and retributive justice is described, and a critique of traditional theories of aggression is presented.
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Symbolic interactionist view of self-concept: Through the looking glass darkly.
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Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8: Writing community into being on social network sites
TL;DR: It is argued that Friendship helps people write community into being in social network sites and supports pre-existing social norms yet these sites introduce an environment that is quite unlike that with which the authors are accustomed.
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The News Interview: Journalists and Public Figures on the Air
TL;DR: The authors examines the place of the news interview in Anglo-American society and considers its historical development in the United States and Britain, and explores the particular recurrent practices through which journalists balance competing professional norms that encourage both objective and adversarial treatment of public figures.
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Beyond politeness theory: ‘Face’ revisited and renewed
TL;DR: The authors argued that Brown and Levinson's claim to provide a universally valid model of face is empirically inadequate; the dynamics of Chinese face call for an alternative, and more flexible framework.