was much influenced by Garfinkel's ideas on "degradation ceremonies". Another famous English writer/polymath who is greatly influenced by the ideas of studying the minutiae of human social action is Jonathan Miller. (Humanistic) social work Key issues, categories and principles of the microsociology, such as human relations, face-to-face interaction, interpretive/qualitative analysis, attachment and empathy, micro-level analysis, human behavior, micro-community, everyday human life, human context, microculture, focus on agency, have influenced and still influences today the social work theory and practice, having a crucial role in the emergence of humanistic social work (Petru Stefaroi), as response to the structural and systemic social work, which theoretically originates from macrosociology or mesosociology. This is why Malcolm Payne considers microsociology a fundamental theoretical-methodological source of this postmodern and innovative orientation from the contemporary social work, especially of the humanistic social work practice. Research Research begins by evaluating the social life of the individuals with the goal of showing the reciprocal relationship between events/actions and the nature of the societal context in which they occur. Empirical evidence from recorded conversations and the microsociology of emotion has proved of particular interest to students of interaction ritual. See also Generalized other George Herbert Mead Human ethology Kurt Lewin Proxemics Socialization References Further reading Turner, Jonathan H. Sociology Pearson Education, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 2006. External links Thomas Scheff, 'Microsociology' Methods in sociology