Selves and a Changing Social Form: Notes on Three Types of Hospitality

Taking hospitality as a social form, analysis of three altering types (domestic, airline, the hospice) shows reflections of social and economic forces that change the form and interactions within it and, hence, the selves of the interactants. It is suggested that symbolic interactionists pay particular attention to the dynamics of social forms as a way to link situated activity and larger social and economic forces.