Symbolic Interaction
According to Blumer. we are able to cooperate socially he-cause we have or are selves and because we have the capacity to engage in symbolic mental processes. Now, perhaps, you can see why these topics were covered in Chapter One and Chapter Two. Other social and behavioral scientists using the concept of interaction have tended to focus on the behaviors themselves. For them, social interaction comes down to what individual acting units do in the presence of one another. For Blumer and the...
Exercise 1F Your roups
1. In your journal, make a heading called My Groups and list all the social groups to which you presently belong or have belonged to in the past. Include, for example, your country, community, the family into which you were bom, your own family or household, groups of friends, schools, companies, work groups or workplace, religious organizations, professional organizations, political organizations, clubs, teams, volunteer associations, and so forth. 2. Go through the the list and circle the...