SOC 3312 Lecture 12: SOC3312 Lec#12
4 Mar 2017
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Symbolic interactionism: can find meaning in our interactions, use symbols to communicate, symbols intervene in our interaction, symbol: something that mediates a reality e. g. a do not enter sign, we follow it when driving. This sign is a voice of society because society is the entity that forces you to stop at some point and let pedestrians cross: the power of society. Born in 1900 misourri, went to university of chicago to write phd in sociology (1928) After, got a job at uni of chicago, stayed until 1952, moved to berkley after and became head of department of sociology. Blumer benefitted from mead and weber he said that social interaction has no meaning without interpretation, there is(cid:374)(cid:859)t a(cid:374)(cid:455) a(cid:272)tio(cid:374) in society that is relevant if you do not interpret it and give it a specific meaning. Blumer says we spend our entire life decoding to understand the person in front of us.
