and Interaction
Structure Action
Structure: independent of intentions
Actions: intentions do matter
o Men make history but under conditions of their own choosing
The notion of interaction involves not simply the idea of bare collision and
rebound, but something much more profound, namely the internal modifiability of
the colliding agent
Interaction in Physical and Biological Science
o Chemical reactions
o Drug interactions
Interaction
o Alternative to series of independent forces
o Alternative to structure
Interaction effects in Statistics
o Effect other variable differs depending on the level of another variable
Interaction in Conversation
o Not just conversation
o But
o Conversation in which actors orient toward each other
Woody Allen in Annie Hall
o Actors Speak
o Reflect on Response
o Reflect on own statement in light of response
o Coordinate with statements each other until shared meaning
Interaction and Meaning
o External sources of meaning
o May be intention in statements
o Evokes response in which intention may or may not be understood
o Reflection on response and negotiation over meaning
o Meaning as emergent property of interaction
Resisting Vulnerability
o Thirteen focus groups
o Focus group as method
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Most answers part of dominant discourse
Some answers depart from dominant discourse
Discourse of resistance not distributed evenly over groups
Discourse in response to group composition
Most frequent response to womens resistance is to dismiss
In 1/3 of the cases, resistance met with agreement and support
Meaning not set in advance
Meaning emerges out of initial statements and responses to those statements
o Understanding of statements about resistance