What is the sociological perspective, symbolic interaction?

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What is the sociological perspective, symbolic interaction?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

Symbolic interactionism:

A vision of society as constructed of the individual’s acts and intentions (the individualistic end of social theory).

A concern with people as self-conscious cultural actors; the ‘social self’ is constructed and reconstructed through interactive behaviour (e.g. language, gesture, etc).

A concern with group relations (rather than society as a whole) - and how people make sense of their place in society.

A concern with identity and socialisation (how people learn their culture and reproduce it):

People develop and define their group identity through interaction – a mutual working out of what things mean.

Meanings are constructed in interaction situations by a process of negotiation (Choi, Hong Kong, 2007)