title: The co-creation of meaningful action: bridging enaction and interactional sociology.
abstract: What makes possible the co-creation of meaningful action? In this paper, we go in search of an answer to this question by combining insights from interactional sociology and enaction. Both research schools investigate social interactions as such, and conceptualize their organization in terms of autonomy. We ask what it could mean for an interaction to be autonomous, and discuss the structures and processes that contribute to and are maintained in the so-called interaction order. We also discuss the role played by individual vulnerability as well as the vulnerability of social interaction processes in the co-creation of meaningful action. Finally, we outline some implications of this interdisciplinary fraternization for the empirical study of social understanding, in particular in social neuroscience and psychology, pointing out the need for studies based on dynamic systems approaches on origins and references of coordination, and experimental designs to help understand human co-presence.
authors.affiliation: Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science, IAS-Research Centre for Life, Mind, and Society, University of the Basque Country, San Sebastián, Spain Department of Informatics, Centre for Computational Neuroscience and Robotics, and Centre for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK h.de.jaegher@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Hanne
authors.identifier: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7273-6410
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: De Jaegher
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Research, Finnish Center of Excellence on Intersubjectivity in Interaction, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Anssi
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Peräkylä
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Research, Finnish Center of Excellence on Intersubjectivity in Interaction, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Melisa
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stevanovic
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D012961:Sociology
keywords: Goffman; conversation analysis; coordination; interactional autonomy; participatory sense-making; social interaction