SOCIOL 4R03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Herbert Blumer, Science Advances
27 Feb 2018
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7:03 pm: herbert blumer and robert prus, what is meant by comparison, comparative analysis, herbert blumber, p. h. d 1928, natural science methodology, casual laws, 87 years of age. Image of group life: 1st, complex person to person adjustment that occur in family living, organization of attitudes. False to see human association (group life) as an interaction of attitudes as a way to predict behaviour: 2nd, organic analogy, pattern, functioning as an entity, 3rd, take each other into account. Symbolic interactionism: blumer coined term in 1937, meanings. Interpretive process: first premise, human beings act towards things on the basis of the meaning that the things have for them. Is that these meanings are handled in, and modified through interpretive process by the person in dealing with the things he encounters: blumer writes. Joint social interaction: psychologists turns facts such as. Stimuli attitudes, conscious or unconscious motives: sociologists rely on factors such as.
