COM 239 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Herbert Blumer, Symbolic Interactionism, John Dewey
28 Feb 2017
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Symbolic interactionism: an approach for examining life and the way people derive. Symbolic interactionism: derived from sociology, sociology theory, sociologist"s goal: study organized life in society, si is a theory that grew out of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Studies by william james, john dewey, charles horton cooley, and. George h. mead: explores how people create meaning for themselves and the broader society through a system of constant negotiation, modification, and re-assemblage as they interact with other people. In other words, people actively create meanings of themselves and society through dealings with others. Little changes constantly change our perspective: reality is an ever-changing terrain based on new criteria and experiences bombarding the individual through additional interaction. Designs, patterns, and values are the symbolic aspect of symbolic. Fits with semiotics interactionism: semiotics asks us to recognize the world is made of symbols, symbolic interactionism asks us to recognize how these symbols shape us.
