ABSTRACT
Anselm Strauss was and remained a social psychologist of a special sort, someone who appreciated the degree to which what takes place in the privacy of our minds translates into the public consequences of the social fabric. Whether dealing with work, leisure, culture, illness, or any form of human activity, Anselm makes certain that we understand that the actual experienced arrangements between people, and for that matter, by extension, between nations, are subject to negotiation. The deep philosophical reasoning Anselm brings and are brought to the fore on every topic covered deserves to be appreciated and emulated—especially at a time when the crude specificities of the empiricist tradition are being countered by equally crude specificities of the integrationist inheritance. Anselm's own fierce positions on medical service and health care delivery form an area in which the symbolic interaction tradition, which emphasizes the body and its frailties, also deals with the human soul and its inviolabilities.
