personality directly affects behaviour, independent of the situation (and therefore consistently across different situations); 'situation' takes into account the extent to which all different people will provide basically the same response to a given situation; and 'interaction' involves the ways in which the same situation affects individual people differently.

Subcategories and scholars

Interactionism has several subcategories:

* Classical interactionism
* Ethnomethodology

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