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Social Encounters - Contributions to Social Interaction (Hardcover)
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Social Encounters - Contributions to Social Interaction (Hardcover)
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Social Encounters is an approach to social psychology that is not
what one might expect to find in textbooks on this subject. As a
companion to Social Interaction advocated by Michael Argyle and his
associates, it has been used by a rapidly growing number of
researchers in social psychology, and related aspects of ethology,
anthropology, and linguistics. The two key ideas are to study the
detailed processes of social interaction at the level of the
elements of interaction, and to relate social behavior to its
biological basis and cultural setting. This work collects excellent
representative studies of different aspects of social interaction;
as such they are important in their own right. Within the general
approach described, a range of different academic orientations are
included. All selections report empirical findings, and most of
them introduce conceptual notions as well. One achievement of the
volume has been to establish the basic elements of which social
interaction consists; current research is concerned with finding
out precisely how these elements function. The contributors agree
that the field consists of various signals: verbal and non-verbal,
tactile, visible and audible, bodily contact, proximity,
orientation, bodily posture, physical appearance, facial
expression, movements of head and hands, direction of gaze, timing
of speech, emotional tone of speech, speech errors, type of
utterance and linguistic structure of utterance. These elements can
be further analyzed and divided into categories or dimensions; each
plays a distinctive role in social interaction. Social behavior is
studied in natural settings or replicas of natural settings, for
which there are cultural rules familiar to the subjects. This is a
pioneering statement in sociobiology.
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