The concept of privacy from a symbolic interaction perspective

Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 10 (1):1–18 (1980)
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Privacy is defined within a symbolic interaction framework in terms of identity definition and maintenance processes. It is argued that defining privacy within a symbolic interaction framework both generates a number of hypotheses involving the concept of privacy and allows the theorist to draw together several social psychological concepts within the one conceptual schema

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Privacy and Freedom.Alan F. Westin - 1970 - Science and Society 34 (3):360-363.
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