ABSTRACT
Individualism is often bolstered, both in academic circles and more widely, by a conception of the human mind or subjectivity as a private realm. The alleged privacy and singularity of our subjective lives evokes a sense of the individual as an isolated atom. Much of what I discussed in the last chapter chips away at this notion. I suggested that strategic interaction entails actors putting themselves into one another’s shoes, for example, and presupposes shared meanings, understandings and situational definitions. Even when they compete, I argued, actors act together and often collude.
