Abstract
Like symbolic interactionism, radical interactionism is derived from the work of George Herbert Mead, Robert Park, and Herbert Blumer. Unlike symbolic interactionism, however, radical interactionism places much more importance on Park's ideas. In the case of the role that subordination plays in human communal life, it emphasizes Park's ideas more than it does either Mead's or Blumer's ideas. Thus, unlike symbolic interaction, radical interactionism focuses the spotlight on nature and operation of subordination among individuals and groups living in minor, major, regional, supra- and even world communities. By building on and extending all three of their ideas, rather than only on those proposed by Mead and Blumer, an explanation is offered for several matters that are crucial to the understanding of subordination. Among the crucial matters explained are the need for the exercise of domination in complex social acts, the imperceptiveness of super-ordinates in their exercise of domination, the invisibility of domination's operation in everyday social acts, its intimate relationship with the operation of power and force, the institutional support for and legitimacy of exerting force to dominate social action, and the creation of dominance orders in groups and communities of various types and sizes.
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