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From [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1533-8665/homepage/Society.html Symbolic Interaction]:
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Following a [http://lists.hum.aau.dk/pipermail/languse/Week-of-Mon-20150406/004673.html question on the languse mailing list] by [[Curtis LeBaron]] about thoughtful critiques of Symbolic Interactionism, [[Robert Arundale]] and [[Timothy Koschmann]] responded with some suggestions highlighting responses from EMCA scholars.
  
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Symbolic interactionism is derived from American pragmatism and particularly from the work of George Herbert Mead, who argued that people’s selves are social products, but that these selves are also purposive and creative. Herbert Blumer, a former student and interpreter of Mead, coined the term ‘symbolic interactionism’ and put forward an influential summary of the perspective stating that
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See the journal of [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/(ISSN)1533-8665/homepage/Society.html Symbolic Interaction] for a description of Symbolic Interactionism itself.
  
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# people act toward things based on the meaning those things have for them, and
 
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# these meanings are derived from social interaction and modified through interpretation. M
 
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any sub-disciplines within the social sciences have been influenced by symbolic interactionism, including the sociology of emotions, deviance/criminology, collective behavior/social movements, feminist studies, sociological versions of social psychology, communications theory, semiotics, education, nursing, mass media, organizations, and the study of social problems. Similarly, numerous interactionist concepts have gained widespread usage, including the definition of the situation, emotion work, identity work, impression management, looking glass self, and total institution
 
  
 
== Bibliography database entries tagged with 'Symbolic Interactionism' ==
 
== Bibliography database entries tagged with 'Symbolic Interactionism' ==

Revision as of 01:18, 14 April 2015

Following a question on the languse mailing list by Curtis LeBaron about thoughtful critiques of Symbolic Interactionism, Robert Arundale and Timothy Koschmann responded with some suggestions highlighting responses from EMCA scholars.

See the journal of Symbolic Interaction for a description of Symbolic Interactionism itself.


Bibliography database entries tagged with 'Symbolic Interactionism'

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