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Symbolic Interactionism

Symbolic interactionism examines how society is constructed through human interpretation and the symbolic meanings people develop through social interaction. It focuses on subjective meanings and views society as socially constructed based on human interpretation rather than objective truth. The theory was a reaction against behaviorism and structural functionalism and sees humans as able to disrupt stimulus-response through their use of symbols, self, and mind.

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Symbolic Interactionism

Symbolic interactionism examines how society is constructed through human interpretation and the symbolic meanings people develop through social interaction. It focuses on subjective meanings and views society as socially constructed based on human interpretation rather than objective truth. The theory was a reaction against behaviorism and structural functionalism and sees humans as able to disrupt stimulus-response through their use of symbols, self, and mind.

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Symbolic Interactionism

Symbolic Interactionism
 also known as symbolic interaction perspective, refers to a key
framework of sociological theory which depends on the symbolic
meaning developed by people in the process of interaction.
Society is examined by concentrating on the subjective meanings
that people impose on things, incidents, and actions.
Symbolic Interactionism
Subjective meanings are prioritized because of the belief that
people behave based on what they perceived to be true and not on
what are objectively true.
Hence, society is seen as socially constructed based on human
interpretation.
Historical Context
 a reaction to behaviorism of psychological theories dominant at the
time it was first formulated in the 1920’s and 1930’s
It stood out against structural-functionalism
In symbolic interactionism, humans are differentiated from animals
who merely react to their environment, because humans have the
ability to disrupt the process of stimulus-response
Key Concepts
Symbols
Self
Mind
George Herbert
Mead
 Born in South Hadley,
Massachusets on 1863
 Mind, Self, and Society
(1934); The Philosophy of
the Act (1938); The
Philosophy of the Present
(1932)
Herbert Blumer
• Founding chair of the
Department of Sociology
at the University of
California, Berkeley
• Symbolic Interaction:
Perspective and Method
Strengths & Criticisms

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