SOCIOL 2D06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Charles Cooley, George Herbert Mead, Georg Simmel
12 Dec 2014
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Emerged in the 19th century associated with the work of charles horton cooley, william i. thomas, georg. Symbolic interactionism variants include the chicago school, kuhn"s iowa school of thought, indiana school (we"ll mostly focus on chicago school) Si adopts a hegelian dialectical view of society this means that society is: Self, action, interaction and society are also processual, dynamic, emergent. Interdependent and reflexive relationship of individuals and society. Interaction and interpretation of meaning in interactions constructs definitions of self, society and situation. The video from khan academy of medicine explains these principles with a few examples (youtube video: symbolic interactionism, khanacademymedicine) Meads work didn"t become available to public till after he died, but blumer was the first to come up with these 3 premises of symbolic interactionism. Individuals are self-reflexive and possess agency that allows them to create and recreate themselves and their environment (individuals interpret meaning and then redefine action based on their interaction with others)
