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interactionism
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interactionism [ˌɪntərˈækʃəˌnɪzəm]
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(Philosophy) Philosophy the dualistic doctrine that holds that mind and body have a causal effect upon one another, as when pricking one's finger (physical) causes pain (mental), or an embarrassing memory (mental) causes one to blush (physical) Compare parallelism [3]


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Theorists offer meta-theoretical positions on the study of religion: the hermeneutic emphasis on personal interpretation, explanatory exclusivists who discount subjective interpretation as unscientific, and interactionists who welcome both other approaches.
Symbolic interactionists such as Charles Horton Cooley (1902) compared the phenomenon of social appraisals to a "looking glass" and argued that we are continually affected by what we see reflected in another's eye (cf.
 
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