Microsociology is one of the main levels of analysis (or focuses) of sociology, concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency on a small scale: face to face.[1]: 5 Microsociology is based on subjective interpretative analysis rather than statistical or empirical observation,[2]: 18–21 and shares close association with the philosophy of phenomenology. Methods include symbolic interactionism and ethnomethodology; ethnomethodology in particular has led to many academic sub-divisions and studies such as micro-linguistical research and other related aspects of human social behaviour. Macrosociology, by contrast, concerns the social structure and broader systems.
Microsociology is one of the main levels of analysis (or focuses) of sociology, concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency...
generalized collectivities (e.g. "the city", "the church"). In contrast, microsociology focuses on the individual social agency. Macrosociology, however, deals...
everyday human social interactions on a small scale (a territory of microsociology). Meso-level forces of social control include organizations and communities...
complexity is a basis for the connection of the phenomena reported in microsociology and macrosociology, and thus provides an intellectual middle-range for...
quarrels. London: Sage. [ISBN missing][page needed] Scheff, J. (1990). Microsociology: discourse, emotion and social structure. Chicago: University of Chicago...
influential in some areas of the discipline. It is particularly important in microsociology and social psychology. It is derived from the American philosophy of...
enabled Collins to later combine this theory with Erving Goffman's microsociology, which resulted in Collins' publication Conflict Sociology in 1975 and...
et al., 1985: 129). The origins of ethogenic social science are in microsociology and symbolic interactionism: in particular, Erving Goffman's dramaturgical...
both macrosociology, concerned with the evolution of societies, and microsociology, concerned with everyday human social interactions. Based on the pragmatic...
of "Power" and "People", Zinoviev describes society at the level of microsociology, his works echo with the "ironic sociological treatise" – the laws of...
crises. Boundary-work Cognitive schemata Imagined communities Liminality Microsociology Moral panic Personal boundaries Social capital Social identity theory...
Viktor Vakhstayn - Russian sociologist, specialist in social theory and microsociology, the Dean of the Faculty of Social Studies of MSSES. On April 22, 2022...
2003, Lungu published three books of essays on literary theory and microsociology, titled respectively Povestirile vieții. Teorie și documente ("Life...