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symbolic interactionism
by: tommy • 1,671 words • january 24, 2010 • 823 views
join now to read essay). for mead, what distinguishes humans from non-human animals is that humans have the ability to delay their reactions to a stimulus. intelligence is the ability to mutually adjust actions. non-human animals also have intelligence because they often can act together or adjust what they do to the actions of other animals.). for interactionists, humans are pragmatic actors who continually must adjust their behavior to the actions of other actors. in peter bergerвђ™s sixth chapter of invitation to sociology, he discusses how life is really a stage and we are actors who either faithfully play the role or not. we can adjust to these actions only because we are able to interpret them, i.e., to denote them symbolically and treat the actions and those who perform them as symbolic objects. this process of adjustment is aided by our ability to imaginatively rehearse alternative lines of action before we act. the process is further aided by our ability to think about and to react to our own actions and even our selves as symbolic objects. thus, the interactionist theorist sees humans as active, creative participants who construct their social world, not as passive, conforming objects of socialization.
for the interactionist, society consists of organized and patterned interactions among individuals. research by interactionists focuses on easily observable face-to-face interactions rather than on macro-level structural relationships involving social institutions. this focus on interaction and on the meaning of events to the participants in those events (the definition of the situation) shifts the attention of interactionists away from stable norms and values toward more changeable, continually readjusting social processes. whereas for functionalists socialization creates stability in the social system, for interactionists negotiation among members of society creates temporary, socially constructed relations, which remain in constant flux, despite relative stability in the basic framework governing those relations.
these emphases on symbols, negotiated reality, and the social construction
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The text includes eighty-two "c"s in total.
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