This brief essay is written to honor the memory of Edward E. Sampson, an American social psychologist. His work emphasized many things, among them that social inequalities and context and, language and action go together; metaphors and symbolic acts can extend the meaning of things. Various texts are produced, critical and discerning questions are raised (or not raised), and ongoing discourses enable (or suppress) certain remembrances and help to co-construct our social existence. Sometimes, language and action reveal contradictions and conflict. Decisions for good or ill must be made. The individual always participates in multiple and often contradictory systems. Systems, in turn, indwells personal reality.

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美国社会心理学家（1934–2019）

这篇简短的文章是为了纪念美国社会心理学家爱德华·E·桑普森。他的作品强调了很多事情，其中​​包括社会不平等和背景，以及语言和行动。比喻和象征行为可以扩展事物的意义。产生了各种文本，提出了（或不提出）批判性和辨别性问题，并且持续的话语启用（或压制）了某些记忆并有助于共同构建我们的社会存在。有时，语言和行动揭示矛盾和冲突。必须做出好或坏的决定。个人总是参与到多个且往往相互矛盾的系统中。反过来，系统存在于个人现实中。