This article presents a theory of character problems as collective behavior grounded in the empirical case of ministry formation in two Protestant Christian seminaries. An interactionist approach to character begins with some standard theoretical openings that dislodge the evaluative core of character from the putative dispositions that inhere in persons and focus analytical attention on the attribution of character in situations. One of the challenges of pursuing this theoretical strategy is the tendency in interactionism to overemphasize situations as self‐contained sites of continually emergent meaning and action, which would neglect important aspects of character that extend beyond the immediate situation. Recent directions in interactionist theorizing that tie the situations of interaction to small group cultures and temporal coordinations aim to redress this moment‐by‐moment bias, and the inter‐situational dimensions of character attributions offer the empirical purchase to apply, assess, and extend those theoretical projects.

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性格问题作为集体行为

本文提出了一种以集体行为为基础的品格问题的理论，该理论基于两个新教基督教神学院事工形成的经验案例。互动主义的品格方法始于一些标准的理论空缺，这些理论空缺使品格的评估核心与人体内假定的性格脱节，并将分析注意力集中在情境中的人物归因上。追求这种理论策略的挑战之一是，互动主义倾向于过分强调情境，因为情境是不断出现的意义和行动的独立场所，而忽视了超越当前情境的性格重要方面。