「相互作用論」のモデル序説 (完)

Abstract

This paper aims at developing the model of "Interactionism" to analyse the human complex social lives. As its term shows, this model focuses on INTERACTION to grasp the reality of social lives. Interaction means the influence-response process among two or more units through significant symbol. To add to these elements, interaction has also the following aspects: plural actors (each of them has self and inner world), significant world (meaningful objects defined by generalized other or institutions), and constraints of situation (which are mainly constructed by quantities of interactor and the way of social time-space perception). Interaciton is, on the one hand, restricted by actor's inner-world, significant world and situation, and, on the other hand, it has the emergent properties mainly produced by the dynamics of interaction itself and self-interaction. The types of interaction are classified into five categories : negotiation, bonding, conflict, domination and support-protecting interaction. Social lives are mainly performed through these interactions, so we try to focus on these interaction processes when we deal with social lives of person or organization to be selected for our research. We also have to pay attention to significant world or other constraints to identify under which conditions each unique interaction process is produced. We also investigate on the adaptive processes to "tasks" and "problems" which actors face in their social lives and the processes of transformation of social lives as a system, in order to analyse the dynamics of lives. This model is characterized by putting a stress on the process, actor's definition of situation and emergency of social lives. But the significance of this model is not only to describe the social lives in detail, but also to show the rich insight into the actor's experiences to which he himself is invisible or indifferent. In other words, our model tries to find out the latent social life-forces which are collectively produced from the combination of interactions.