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No. 1(12) (2017): The Relational Turn in Sociology: Implications for the Study of Society, Culture, and Persons

Reflexivity and the Symbolic We-Relation

  • Lorenza Gattamorta
DOI
https://doi.org/10.51196/srz.12.7
Published
1. 04. 2017

Abstract

This essay considers the features constituting the symbolic We-relation to seek how the reflexive Self can generate changes to the Self, the You, and the We-relation itself. While critically dialoguing with phenomenological and pragmatist social theories, the essay investigates how subjectivity emerges in the interaction with (verbal and non-verbal) symbols and tries to avoid both subjectivism and the relationism.

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