Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Symbolic Interactionism - Introduction and Bibliography


Symbolic interactionsim addresses how meanings are produced by agents through their interaction with symbols (Klenke, 2016)

Herbert Blumer (1969) articulated the major premises of social interactionism. He was students of  George Mead.


Symbolic Interactionism: The Basics


Charles Quist-Adade
Vernon Press, 15-Mar-2019 - Social Science - 218 pages

This book is a survey of Symbolic Interaction. In thirteen short chapters, it traces the history, the social philosophical roots, the founders, “movers and shakers” and evolution of the theory. Symbolic Interactionism: The Basics takes the reader along the exciting, but tortuous journey of the theory and explores both the meta-theoretical and mini-theoretical roots and branches of the theory. Symbolic interactionism or sociological social psychology traces its roots to the works of United States sociologists George Hebert Mead, Charles Horton Cooley, and Herbert Blumer, and a Canadian sociologist, Erving Goffman; Other influences are Harold Garfinkel’s Ethnomethodology and Austrian-American Alfred Schutz’s study of Phenomenology.



Symbolic Interactionism: Basics explores the philosophical sources of symbolic interactionism, including pragmatism, social behaviorism, and neo-Hegelianism. The intellectual origins of symbolic interactions can be attributed to the works of William James, George Simmel, John Dewey, Max Weber, and George Herbert Mead. Mead is believed to be the founder of the theory, although he did not publish any academic work on the paradigm. The book highlights the works of the intellectual heirs of symbolic interactionism— Herbert Blumer, Mead’s former student, who was instrumental in publishing the lectures of his former professor posthumously with the title Symbolic Interactionism.
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=CluZDwAAQBAJ


Symbolic Interactionism: Perspective and Method

Herbert Blumer
University of California Press, 1986 - Social Science - 208 pages

This is a collection of articles dealing with the point of view of symbolic interactionism and with the topic of methodology in the discipline of sociology. It is written by the leading figure in the school of symbolic interactionism, and presents what might be regarded as the most authoritative statement of its point of view, outlining its fundamental premises and sketching their implications for sociological study. Blumer states that symbolic interactionism rests on three premises: that human beings act toward things on the basis of the meanings of things have for them; that the meaning of such things derives from the social interaction one has with one's fellows; and that these meanings are handled in, and modified through, an interpretive process.
https://books.google.co.in/books/about/Symbolic_Interactionism.html?id=lhdyvDMUeLMC





Key Sociological Thinkers: Second Edition


Rob Stones
Macmillan International Higher Education, 06-Nov-2007 - Social Science - 408 pages

The second edition of this popular and established text provides a comprehensive guide to 23 of the most influential thinkers in sociology. Written by leading academics in the field, Key Sociological Thinkers 2e provides a clear and contextualized introduction to classical and contemporary theory.

Each chapter offers an insightful assessment of a different theorist, exploring their lives, works and legacies. Drawing upon examples from the everyday world, an innovative 'Seeing Things Differently' section in every chapter demonstrates how theoretical ideas can be used to illuminate aspects of social life in new ways.

Included in this new edition:
• Four new chapters, looking at Theodor Adorno, Michael Mann, Dorothy Smith and Zygmunt Bauman
• Chapter updates on recent developments
• An important new introduction
• Three types of contents page to provide easy navigation of the text
• Useful glossary boxes throughout, with their own dedicated contents page, to highlight and explain complex theoretical ideas.

Key Sociological Thinkers 2e provides a stimulating overview of the best of sociological thought, from Karl Marx, Emile Durkheim and Georg Simmel to Nancy Chodorow, Michel Foucault and Anthony Giddens. It continues to be an essential text for all students of sociological theory.
Chapter 5 is Herbert Blumer

Symbolic Interactionist Theory
Sociological Paradigm #3: Symbolic Interactionist Theory
https://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-herkimer-intro-to-sociology-1/chapter/reading-symbolic-interactionist-theory/

Mead vs. Blumer: The Divergent Methodological Perspectives of Social Behaviorism and Symbolic Interactionism
Clark McPhail and Cynthia Rexroat

American Sociological Review
Vol. 44, No. 3 (Jun., 1979), pp. 449-467 (19 pages)
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2094886

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