Interaction Ritual Chains is a major work of sociological theory that attempts to develop a " radical microsociology . " It proposes that successful rituals create symbols of group membership and pump up individuals with emotional energy, while failed rituals drain emotional energy.
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The theory of interaction ritual chains is inspired by Emile Durkheim's theory of ritual, laid forward in his book The Elementary Forms of Religious Life, by the conflict theory of Max Weber, and by the microsociology of Erving Goffman.
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Erving Goffman however saw a central tension between Durkheimian approaches, and those drawn from ethology, especially in respect of interpersonal ritual; while followers of him have seen in a Durkheimian microsociology the key to the understanding of large-scale social conflict as well.
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In sociology, "'social psychology "', also known as "'sociological social psychology "'or "'microsociology "', is an area of sociology that focuses on social actions and on interrelations of personality, controlled experiments.
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Key issues, categories and principles of the microsociology, such as human relations, face-to-face interaction, interpretive / Malcolm Payne considers microsociology a fundamental theoretical-methodological source of this postmodern and innovative orientation from the contemporary social work, especially of the humanistic social work practice.
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Key issues, categories and principles of the microsociology, such as human relations, face-to-face interaction, interpretive / Malcolm Payne considers microsociology a fundamental theoretical-methodological source of this postmodern and innovative orientation from the contemporary social work, especially of the humanistic social work practice.
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Another one of Harr?s distinctive contributions was to the understanding of the social self in microsociology, which he called " ethogenics : " this method attempts to understand the systems of belief or means by which individuals can attach significance to their actions and form their identities, in addition to the structure of rules and cultural resources that underlie these actions.
