negotiated order
negotiated orderA theory developed largely within symbolic interactionism by Anselm Strauss to depict social organization occurring in and through people negotiating with each other. Designed in part as a response to the view that interactionists had no tools for analysing social structure and were too subjective, the theory attempts to depict social organization as an active achievement of social actors, and not as a static or reified concept. It can be traced back to a number of classic sources: George Herbert Mead's dialectical concept of society; Herbert Blumer's idea of the interpretive process and the joint act; Robert Park's characterization of society as a succession of conflicts, accommodations, and assimilations; and Everett Hughes's concern with institutional flexibility. The term is stated and...
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