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Negotiations

In most interactions room for negotiation exists; that is, the parties involved have the option of negotiating other expectations and meanings.

The negotiated order, then, is the sum of existing expectations and newly negotiated ones (Strauss 1978). The strength of the symbolic interactionist perspective is that it requires researchers to observe social interaction as it occurs. The weakness is that the perspective offers no specific directions on how to frame and organize those observations.

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