Making Social Life: Theories of Action and Meaning
Chapter 18 Discussion Questions

• How free are we? What are the limits to our actions?
  
• Does symbolic interactionism over-emphasise the degree of conscious monitoring of action and manipulation of situations done by actors?
  
• Is our sexual identity given to us or do we create our own?
  
• Do we live in a world of endlessly overlapping signs and images? Does anyone or anything shape or control them? (Think of the media, for example.)