American social theory
type: Concept
narrower: frame analysis

methods
type: Collection
type: ConceptGroup
member: frame analysis

decision making
type: Concept
narrower: frame analysis

frame analysis
type: Concept
broader: policy analysis
broader: micro-interactionist theory
broader: decision making
broader: American social theory
definition: Frame analysis is a broadly applied, relatively flexible label for a variety of approaches to studying social constructions of reality. Erving Goffman, who is credited with developing the phrase in his 1974 book Frame Analysis, understood frames to mean the culturally determined definitions of reality that allow people to make sense of objects and events. [Source: Encyclopedia of Governance; Frame Analysis]

micro-interactionist theory
type: Concept
narrower: frame analysis

policy analysis
type: Concept
narrower: frame analysis