SOCPSY 2M03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: George Herbert Mead, Symbolic Interactionism, Herbert Blumer

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Social Psychology
• Course: SOCPSY 2M03
• Professor: Glen Steeves

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Introduction: for example, the meaning of little league baseball can have various meanings and interpretations. For example, an old table can be seen as trash to one family or an antique to another: the assumption of an object or person is usually the same amongst people. For example, a table is a table: symbolic interactionism is most concerned with the meanings that people give to actions and events and with understanding how these meanings are constructed and negotiated. Provides a connection between individuals and social organization. People create, negotiate and change social meanings through the process of interaction. Individual have power in shaping social reality. Interactions not only create meanings but also build and maintain social order. The origins and emergence of symbolic interactionism: grew out of the american philosophical tradition of pragmatism. Blumer later on defined this as symbolic interactionism. 1: this approach differs from rationalism in its assumptions about (1) the nature of.