perspective

"(...) does the other side lie, do others know they are lying, are their conclusions inaccurate because they do not understand as much as we do, are they poorer thinkers than we are, are we simply seeing the same reality in a different way, are their values or emotions getting in the way of understanding, or perhaps are all of us really equally ignorant of the truth?" This, I must say, is a promising introduction to a book. Excerpt is taken from Joel M. Charon's Symbolic interactionism. An introduction, an interpretation, an integration (publisher, amazon). Have I asked the same questions a million times. Charon introduces "perspective" as the concept that may help answer these questions. Of course, this is, after all, a book about symbolic interactionism, about how our truths are shaped by the meanings we encounter through social interaction. Eh, so far I've only read page 1, so I don't know whether I'd recommend it.