How does culture impact individual’s cognitive complexity? This article reviews evidence suggesting that the relationship between culture and cognitive complexity depends upon the nature of the situation in which complexity is expressed. In addition, two new investigations are summarized. One study reveals that individuals from different cultures are differentially dogmatic on different domains...

Development is a classic focus of Vygotskian cultural-historical research. On the other hand, development is curiously absent in many recent ethnographic and interactionist approaches to the study of human practices. Partly this split may be due to the normative and vertical bias commonly associated with the notion of development. But if we keep development out of our studies of work and other ...

In this article, the authors propose and test an interactionist model of personality functioning. The model maintains that many traits function in a threshold-like manner, such that less situational strength is needed to evoke a trait-relevant response in people who are high on the trait than in those who are low on the trait. Because of these different sensitivities, people who are high on a t...

Rising rents play an important role in the displacement of residents through gentrification processes Germany. Applying interactionist approach and conceptualising as emergent phenomenon that results from interaction process, we explore how gentrifying district Altona-Altstadt Hamburg deal with situations rent increases. Four strategies emerge: de-problematisation, unwilling consent, changing f...

The aim of this article is to respond to the question of whether social networks represent a possible terrain of application and investment for interactionist research. The answer to that question is, without a doubt, affirmative. What appears to be truly problematic, if not completely improbable, is that this investment can come about through a “coming together” of symbolic interactionism and ...