Michael L Schwalbe
Biographic Data
| ID | 123972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael L Schwalbe |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael L |
| FAMILY NAME | Schwalbe |
| SIGNATURE | SCHWALBE M L |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Carolina State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 285 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Power and Interaction
In this chapter we draw on G. H. Mead to formulate a definition of power as an organism’s capacity to modify its environment to satisfy its needs and desires. We argue that in the social world this capacity is exercised by individuals and groups through forms of action that elicit the cooperation of others. This fundamentally symbolic interactionist approach to power helps us see how power operates on both situational and structural levels. Our a…
Upscaling Goffman
Mainstream sociology and conventional interactionism suffer from a tendency to take the metaphor of ‘social structure’ literally, thus falling into the trap of reification: misconceiving structure as an independent force that affects human affairs. Neostructural interactionism rejects this view, conceiving of structure as recurrent patterns of joint action. If there is no such action, no structure exists. Defining structure in this way makes the …
Interviewing Men
Goffman Against Postmodernism: Emotion and the Reality of the Self
Goffman has been read as arguing that selves are no more than images created in conformity with situational expectations. I read Goffman as saying that the reality of selfhood is not an image, but a psychobiological proces shaped by signs and symbols. Seen in this way, the reality of the self is evident, as Goffman suggested, not in conformity but in moments of feeling, resistance, and choice. Drawing out what is implicit in Goffman, this article…
The Ecology of the Self: Relocation and Self-Concept Change
List of tables Preface 1. Restructuring the ecology of the self: a framework for self-concept change 2. Method considerations for an ecological approach 3. Relocation and changes in commitment: a cross-sectional study over the first year 4. Implications of recent research in cognitive social psychology for self-concept change 5. Social psychological theories on maintenance and change 6. Sociological approached to the self-concept and change 7. Th…
Gender Differences in Sources of Self-Esteem
We explore gender differences in the importance of reflected appraisals, self-perceived competence, and social comparisons as sources of self-esteem
Alienation as the Denial of Aesthetic Experience
Marx's analysis of alienated labor still explains much about how the capitalist labor process shapes the thoughts and feelings of direct producers. But Marx's analysis fares less well in explaining how the work people actually do with their hands and minds leads to specific psychological consequences. This weakness stems from an inadequate social psychology. The purpose of this article is to provide Marx with this needed social psychology by draw…
The Autogenesis of the Self
The Social Importance of Self-Esteem
Mind and Self in Society: Linking Social Structure and Social Cognition
Recent developments in social cognition could enhance sociological social psychologists' understanding of the mind as both a social product and a social force; yet this work in social cognition has received little attention. Conversely, social cognition has not fulfilled its promise to show what is truly social about cognition. We argue that more attention to social cognition on the part of sociologists would be beneficial to both fields, as woul…
Toward a Sociology of Moral Problem Solving
A Humanist Conception of Competition in Sport
Role Taking Reconsidered: Linking Competence and Performance to Social Structure
The Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor
Sources of Self-Esteem in Work: What's Important for Whom
Social psychologists and sociologists of work have documented the importance of numerous aspects of work experience for adult self-esteem. The social psychological dynamics of many of these work and self-esteem relationships remain, however, to be explored fully. The research reported here probes these dynamics by examining various sources of self-esteem in work and asking, What's important for whom? The data presented suggest that in the workpla…
On Practical and Discursive Self-Knowledge
Mead Among the Cognitivists: Roles as Performance Imagery
The Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor
Personality and Ideology: Towards a Materialist Understanding of the Individual
Parental Behavior and Adolescent Self-Esteem
In this study we examine the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations-specifically, self-worth, self-efficacy, and general self-esteem. The study is based on a sample of 128families, each consisting of a mother, afather, and a child in late adolescence (17 to 19 years of age). We found little correspondence …
Autonomy in Work and Self-Esteem
The relationship between work experience and self-esteem is an important one for social psychologists interested in how social structure affects personality. Research on this relationship has consistently documented the importance of autonomy in work for self-esteem. This research has failed, however, to closely examine the meaning of autonomy within the workplace culture and, therefore, has also failed to see how this meaning allows autonomy to …
Social Class, Occupational Conditions, and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
This study examines the relationship between social stratification and self-esteem by focusing on aspects of stratification and self-esteem formation processes ignored in previous research. An analysis of theoretical developments and empirical research reveals that the exclusive focus on occupational status and self-esteem derived from interpersonal comparison processes ignores an entire dimension of the relationship between social stratification…
Beyond the Looking-Glass Self: Social Structure and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
The looking-glass has been the dominant metaphor within sociology for the development of self-conception and has contributed to an overly passive and oversocialized view of human beings. The major theme in this paper is that our self-conceptions are also based upon our actions in the world, especially efficacious actions. The notions of human agency and self-creativity, which have been a hallmark of the symbolic interactionist tradition at the ph…
Language and the Self: An Expanded View from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
Language and the self are two of the most important elements in Mead's account of human development and action. Despite the importance of language and the self to symbolic interactionism, little attention has been devoted to exploring their interrelationhip, either theoretically or empirically. Some reasons for this neglect are suggested. By merging Mead's view of language and the self with a functional linguistic perspective new possibilities ar…
Beyond the Looking-Glass Self: Social Structure and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
The looking-glass has been the dominant metaphor within sociology for the development of self-conception and has contributed to an overly passive and oversocialized view of human beings. The major theme in this paper is that our self-conceptions are also based upon our actions in the world, especially efficacious actions. The notions of human agency and self-creativity, which have been a hallmark of the symbolic interactionist tradition at the ph…
Parental Behavior and Adolescent Self-Esteem
In this study we examine the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations-specifically, self-worth, self-efficacy, and general self-esteem. The study is based on a sample of 128families, each consisting of a mother, afather, and a child in late adolescence (17 to 19 years of age). We found little correspondence …
Goffman Against Postmodernism: Emotion and the Reality of the Self
Goffman has been read as arguing that selves are no more than images created in conformity with situational expectations. I read Goffman as saying that the reality of selfhood is not an image, but a psychobiological proces shaped by signs and symbols. Seen in this way, the reality of the self is evident, as Goffman suggested, not in conformity but in moments of feeling, resistance, and choice. Drawing out what is implicit in Goffman, this article…
Mind and Self in Society: Linking Social Structure and Social Cognition
Recent developments in social cognition could enhance sociological social psychologists' understanding of the mind as both a social product and a social force; yet this work in social cognition has received little attention. Conversely, social cognition has not fulfilled its promise to show what is truly social about cognition. We argue that more attention to social cognition on the part of sociologists would be beneficial to both fields, as woul…
Gender Differences in Sources of Self-Esteem
We explore gender differences in the importance of reflected appraisals, self-perceived competence, and social comparisons as sources of self-esteem
Autonomy in Work and Self-Esteem
The relationship between work experience and self-esteem is an important one for social psychologists interested in how social structure affects personality. Research on this relationship has consistently documented the importance of autonomy in work for self-esteem. This research has failed, however, to closely examine the meaning of autonomy within the workplace culture and, therefore, has also failed to see how this meaning allows autonomy to …
Role Taking Reconsidered: Linking Competence and Performance to Social Structure
Social Class, Occupational Conditions, and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
This study examines the relationship between social stratification and self-esteem by focusing on aspects of stratification and self-esteem formation processes ignored in previous research. An analysis of theoretical developments and empirical research reveals that the exclusive focus on occupational status and self-esteem derived from interpersonal comparison processes ignores an entire dimension of the relationship between social stratification…
The Autogenesis of the Self
Toward a Sociology of Moral Problem Solving
Mead Among the Cognitivists: Roles as Performance Imagery
Sources of Self-Esteem in Work: What's Important for Whom
Social psychologists and sociologists of work have documented the importance of numerous aspects of work experience for adult self-esteem. The social psychological dynamics of many of these work and self-esteem relationships remain, however, to be explored fully. The research reported here probes these dynamics by examining various sources of self-esteem in work and asking, What's important for whom? The data presented suggest that in the workpla…
Language and the Self: An Expanded View from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
Language and the self are two of the most important elements in Mead's account of human development and action. Despite the importance of language and the self to symbolic interactionism, little attention has been devoted to exploring their interrelationhip, either theoretically or empirically. Some reasons for this neglect are suggested. By merging Mead's view of language and the self with a functional linguistic perspective new possibilities ar…
Beyond the Looking-Glass Self: Social Structure and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
The looking-glass has been the dominant metaphor within sociology for the development of self-conception and has contributed to an overly passive and oversocialized view of human beings. The major theme in this paper is that our self-conceptions are also based upon our actions in the world, especially efficacious actions. The notions of human agency and self-creativity, which have been a hallmark of the symbolic interactionist tradition at the ph…
Language and the Self: An Expanded View from a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective
Language and the self are two of the most important elements in Mead's account of human development and action. Despite the importance of language and the self to symbolic interactionism, little attention has been devoted to exploring their interrelationhip, either theoretically or empirically. Some reasons for this neglect are suggested. By merging Mead's view of language and the self with a functional linguistic perspective new possibilities ar…
Social Class, Occupational Conditions, and Efficacy-Based Self-Esteem
This study examines the relationship between social stratification and self-esteem by focusing on aspects of stratification and self-esteem formation processes ignored in previous research. An analysis of theoretical developments and empirical research reveals that the exclusive focus on occupational status and self-esteem derived from interpersonal comparison processes ignores an entire dimension of the relationship between social stratification…
Autonomy in Work and Self-Esteem
The relationship between work experience and self-esteem is an important one for social psychologists interested in how social structure affects personality. Research on this relationship has consistently documented the importance of autonomy in work for self-esteem. This research has failed, however, to closely examine the meaning of autonomy within the workplace culture and, therefore, has also failed to see how this meaning allows autonomy to …
Personality and Ideology: Towards a Materialist Understanding of the Individual
Parental Behavior and Adolescent Self-Esteem
In this study we examine the relationship between parental behavior as reported by parents, children's perceptions of parental behavior, and the effects of each on various aspects of children's self-evaluations-specifically, self-worth, self-efficacy, and general self-esteem. The study is based on a sample of 128families, each consisting of a mother, afather, and a child in late adolescence (17 to 19 years of age). We found little correspondence …
On Practical and Discursive Self-Knowledge
Mead Among the Cognitivists: Roles as Performance Imagery
The Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor
Role Taking Reconsidered: Linking Competence and Performance to Social Structure
The Psychosocial Consequences of Natural and Alienated Labor
Sources of Self-Esteem in Work: What's Important for Whom
Social psychologists and sociologists of work have documented the importance of numerous aspects of work experience for adult self-esteem. The social psychological dynamics of many of these work and self-esteem relationships remain, however, to be explored fully. The research reported here probes these dynamics by examining various sources of self-esteem in work and asking, What's important for whom? The data presented suggest that in the workpla…
A Humanist Conception of Competition in Sport
Mind and Self in Society: Linking Social Structure and Social Cognition
Recent developments in social cognition could enhance sociological social psychologists' understanding of the mind as both a social product and a social force; yet this work in social cognition has received little attention. Conversely, social cognition has not fulfilled its promise to show what is truly social about cognition. We argue that more attention to social cognition on the part of sociologists would be beneficial to both fields, as woul…
Toward a Sociology of Moral Problem Solving
Gender Differences in Sources of Self-Esteem
We explore gender differences in the importance of reflected appraisals, self-perceived competence, and social comparisons as sources of self-esteem
Alienation as the Denial of Aesthetic Experience
Marx's analysis of alienated labor still explains much about how the capitalist labor process shapes the thoughts and feelings of direct producers. But Marx's analysis fares less well in explaining how the work people actually do with their hands and minds leads to specific psychological consequences. This weakness stems from an inadequate social psychology. The purpose of this article is to provide Marx with this needed social psychology by draw…
The Autogenesis of the Self
The Social Importance of Self-Esteem
The Ecology of the Self: Relocation and Self-Concept Change
List of tables Preface 1. Restructuring the ecology of the self: a framework for self-concept change 2. Method considerations for an ecological approach 3. Relocation and changes in commitment: a cross-sectional study over the first year 4. Implications of recent research in cognitive social psychology for self-concept change 5. Social psychological theories on maintenance and change 6. Sociological approached to the self-concept and change 7. Th…
Goffman Against Postmodernism: Emotion and the Reality of the Self
Goffman has been read as arguing that selves are no more than images created in conformity with situational expectations. I read Goffman as saying that the reality of selfhood is not an image, but a psychobiological proces shaped by signs and symbols. Seen in this way, the reality of the self is evident, as Goffman suggested, not in conformity but in moments of feeling, resistance, and choice. Drawing out what is implicit in Goffman, this article…
Interviewing Men
Upscaling Goffman
Mainstream sociology and conventional interactionism suffer from a tendency to take the metaphor of ‘social structure’ literally, thus falling into the trap of reification: misconceiving structure as an independent force that affects human affairs. Neostructural interactionism rejects this view, conceiving of structure as recurrent patterns of joint action. If there is no such action, no structure exists. Defining structure in this way makes the …
Power and Interaction
In this chapter we draw on G. H. Mead to formulate a definition of power as an organism’s capacity to modify its environment to satisfy its needs and desires. We argue that in the social world this capacity is exercised by individuals and groups through forms of action that elicit the cooperation of others. This fundamentally symbolic interactionist approach to power helps us see how power operates on both situational and structural levels. Our a…
Psychology (18 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Social Psychology (15 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Self-esteem (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Philosophy (6 works) · Political science (6 works)