interactionism in a sentence
Examples
- George Herbert Mead, as an advocate of pragmatism and the subjectivity of social reality, is considered a leader in the development of interactionism.
- A second exception is to be found in the works of researchers who have employed resources from ethnomethodology and symbolic interactionism in studying legal settings.
- The rise in islamophobia in the United States, after the attacks on the World Trade Center, is an example of symbolic interactionism in practice.
- Parsons, however, criticized the symbolic interactionism of Herbert Blumer, since in Blumer's theory there is no end to the openness of action.
- This latter grouping developed work which drew variously on post-structuralism and symbolic interactionism in order to develop a cultural and anthropological understanding of contemporary organizations.
- It asserts that while material causes give rise to interactionism, on the other hand, in which mental causes can produce material effects, and vice versa.
- Because people act towards the world based on the subjective meanings they attribute to different objects ( symbolic interactionism ), individuals construct worlds that are inherently subjective.
- The Society for the Study of Symbolic Interactionism sponsors an annual Couch-Stone meeting named in honor of Couch and another noted symbolic interactionsist, Gregory Stone.
- Parsons regarded symbolic interactionism and the theory of George Herbert Mead as valuable contributions to action theory specifying certain aspects of the theory of the personality of the individual.
- In addition he argues that every action contains a dimension of free will, by which he is expanding functionalism to include some of the concerns of symbolic interactionism.