ABSTRACT

In the preceding chapters I have attempted to tease out and explore the strategic, symbolic, affective, conventional and exchange dimensions of interaction and relations. In this chapter I develop the picture that has emerged in this discussion in three overlapping ways. First, I reflect more deeply upon convention and draw two further foci to the analytic foreground: networks and resources. All three concepts have been implicated in what I have argued in earlier chapters. They are indispensable for an understanding of interaction and relationships. But they are also indispensable for an adequate conception of social structure. Each is or belongs to a key aspect of structure.