"[structural symbolic interactionism] view sees social differentiation as a continuous process countering homogenization of interactional experience and the structures within societies. It sees society as composed of organized systems of interactions and role relationships and as complex mosaics of differentiated groups, communities, and institutions, cross-cut by a variety of demarcations based on class, age, gender, ethnicity, religion, etc. It sees the diversity of parts as sometimes interdependent and sometimes independent of one another, sometimes isolated and insulated from one another and sometimes not, sometimes cooperative and sometimes conflicting, sometimes highly resistant to change and sometimes less so. It sees social life as largely taking place not within society as a whole but within relatively small networks of role relationships, many-perhaps most- local."