Some have considered that face-to-face interaction can be studied in at least three distinct (if overlapping) ways: psychology; intersubjectivity; and microsociology [REF].
Erving Goffman however saw a central tension between Durkheimian approaches, and those drawn from ethology, especially in respect of interpersonal ritual;[REF] while followers of him have seen in a Durkheimian microsociology the key to the understanding of large-scale social conflict as well [REF].