About the Author

Robert Freed Bales is professor emeritus of social relations at Harvard University. In 1983, he founded Symlog with colleagues in San Diego. He is the author of Interaction Process Analysis; Personality and Interpersonal Behavior; and co-author, with Talcott Parsons and Edward Shils, of Working Papers in the Theory of Action. He has well over 100 professional papers in the major journals of sociology and psychology.

Reviews

"Social Interaction Systems continues the trend that began with The Symlog Practitioner....[It] is a valuable compendium of the work of a remarkable scholar" - Richard B. Kettner-Polley, Society"