Microsociology: An aptonym?

social psychology >>> microsociology >>> sociology

That's the ascending order of scope of study of humans as a social entity, at least according to this wikipedia entry on microsociology (which seems to be an aptonym given the size of the wikipedia entry and the field).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsociology

I stumbled upon this in searching for the currently active heirs to Goffman's theories and observations of humans in social interactions (status, performance, covering). The search continues.

Update: Here microsociology is called "one of the main branches of sociology":

http://www.nationmaster.com/encyclopedia/Microsociology

Cultural anthropology, the empiricism based seduction community, the study of poker as a model for strategic interaction (like Prof. Nesson is doing through the Global Poke Strategy Society) much of the ork of Erving Goffman; all of these seem to me to fall naturally under microsociology. And a huge swath of my interests do too.

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[TGGP]

I first heard of the term microsociology because of Randall Collins' book on violence, which I'd like to read. The folks at GNXP rag on cultural anthropology here:
http://www.gnxp.com/blog/2007/12/get-three-to-semiotics-department.php