Current Research:
Role Making: the construction of personal behavior within the constraints of role expectations

Effects of identity and self-awareness on interpersonal behavior

Meanings conveyed by aural and visual components of music videos

Biographical Statement
I am concerned with extending and testing the interactionist theory of G. H. Mead, using a variety of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. My major interests are in how a person's meanings are organized in relation to his or her positions in various social orders, and in how a complex self develops in relation to the perspectives and interaction patterns available in families and organizations.

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