ABSTRACT
Communication researchers have generally ignored certain theories of interdependence, including the micro-macro issue, although this is less true of certain organizational theorists. Hawes (1974) in communication, and Weick (1979) in social psychology, are certainly notable exceptions. Both of these theorists have focused attention on interactional processes that produce larger organized relationships. They recognized that the concepts of collectivity and structure were the emergent forms of interdependence, which is created when language users participate in patterned interactions that meet individual and relationship goals, but have macrostructures as a byproduct. In the study of organizations, Hawes and Weick have tried to direct attention away from container metaphors of organizations-that is, the organization is a noun or an entity that holds something-and redefine organizations as verbs or processes, interactions that rely on principles of interdependence.
