SOCI 4670 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Symbolic Interactionism, Factions Of Halo, Social Realism
22 Sep 2018
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The early pragmatists can be divided into two schools: the social realism of peirce and mead and the subjective nominalism of james and dewey, and symbolic interaction theory is essentially an extension of the james-dewey pragmatism. Social realism is in accord with the presuppositions of science, but subjective nominalism is essentially antithetical to scientific postul. Mead and the interactionists for the possibility of science and knowledge. of consciousness apart from the language community which gives it meaning. Mead recognized that society is not only a precondition for the possibility of self, but also. Mead rejected the cartesian type of introspection in which one attempts to analyze the content. This precludes the possibility of a phenomenological social science by denying the. The meaning of any subjective thought experience is grounded in the relation of the. bracketed, that is, presumed problematic, by traditional husserlian phenomenology. Mead held, as do all pragmatists, that the individual selects stimuli and constructs responses.
